https://www.scmp.com/rss/324360/feed Daniel Poon is an economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Division on Globalisation and Development Strategies. He has worked for the International Labour Organisation and the North-South Institute, and was previously a visiting scholar with the Institute of World Economy and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. His main publications and research interests involve China’s industrial strategy, development finance, and South-South... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Once an exemplary student of globalisation encouraged to be a “responsible stakeholder” in international affairs, China is increasingly portrayed in the West as a “strategic competitor” or worse, a dangerous threat to the survival of the rules-based international order. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is one of the reasons for this shift in sentiment, with a crescendo of accusations about its geopolitical intentions and the dangers of debt peonage. China has reacted swiftly to such... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2183292/chinas-belt-and-road-plan-isnt-marshall-plan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2183292/chinas-belt-and-road-plan-isnt-marshall-plan?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:00:15 +0000 The US-China trade dispute is off again, on again. While many people have debated the rights and wrongs of reining in Chinese trade policies, there has been little open contemplation of why China adopted such practices in the first place and what that might suggest about development prospects under existing global trade rules. It is no secret that in the post-second world war era, only a small number of developing countries have joined the ranks of high-income countries, and only a handful of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2151688/china-broke-rules-global-trade-good-reason?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2151688/china-broke-rules-global-trade-good-reason?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jun 2018 06:00:45 +0000 While the world watches anxiously for signs of US President Donald Trump’s next move vis-à-vis China, Chinese leaders remain focused on the next stage of their country’s ongoing economic transformation. What they do should interest everyone – especially US policymakers. China’s industrialisation process, like that of other successful East Asian economies, has combined profit-led investment, active industrial policy and export discipline. But that approach has its limits, exemplified in the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2092009/what-made-china-2025-can-teach-trumps-america-about-reviving?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2092009/what-made-china-2025-can-teach-trumps-america-about-reviving?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 May 2017 08:15:00 +0000