https://www.scmp.com/rss/325850/feed Stephen Green is chairman of Asia House. Lord Green was the UK minister of state for trade and investment from 2011 to 2013, and group chairman of HSBC from 2006 until 2010. He is author of the new book The Human Odyssey. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Last week, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its economic forecast for Asia, predicting that the region will grow 0.4 per cent slower than previously anticipated. While the revised growth rate of 5 per cent is still reasonably robust, the news added to concerns about stalling economic performance in the region.  Perhaps those despairing about Asia’s growth should brush up on their Confucius, who tells us in the Analects that “those who crave speed may never arrive”. In other words, the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3035210/us-china-trade-war-and-short-term-economic-slowdowns-need-not?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3035210/us-china-trade-war-and-short-term-economic-slowdowns-need-not?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:00:05 +0000 In 2014, former US national security adviser Stephen Hadley spoke to the Lowy Institute in Australia. “The truth is there is no real alternative to the United States as the global leader,” he said. “China doesn’t want the role … And to be frank, China would not be trusted by many countries – particularly in the Asia-Pacific – to be the global leader.” Now, just three years on, the landscape looks very different. America has not gone away, of course: the dynamism and creativity of its economy... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2121297/america-falters-and-europe-declines-look-east-see-future?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2121297/america-falters-and-europe-declines-look-east-see-future?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:43:50 +0000