Kenneth Rogoff
Why a More Flexible Renminbi Still Matters
CAMBRIDGE – One of the most notable macroeconomic developments in recent years has been the sharp drop in China’s current-account surplus. T…
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This week, with the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the relationship between the world's two great powers comes under scrutiny. Project Syndicate's economic and geopolitical experts weigh in on the potential for synergy between the two countries, and the challenges to achieving it.
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Stephen S. Roach
America's Renminbi Fixation
NEW YORK – For seven years, the United States has allowed its fixation on the renminbi’s exchange rate to deflect attention from far more im…
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Jeffrey Frankel
China Adjusts
BAHRAIN – China watchers are waiting to see whether the country has engineered a soft landing, cooling down an overheating economy and achie…
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Christopher R. Hill
The Long March from Shanghai
SHANGHAI – Forty years ago, in February 1972, US President Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China. On the seventh day of “the week that changed…
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Minxin Pei
Nixon Then, China Now
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – When US President Richard Nixon embarked on his historic trip to China 40 years ago, he could not have imagined what…
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Steve Tsang
China’s Syrian Folly
NOTTINGHAM – In vetoing the United Nations Security Council’s draft resolution on Syria, China claims that it has acted in the interests of …
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Kevin Rudd
Tomorrow’s Pax Pacifica
CANBERRA – Although the relationship between China and the United States is critical to Asia’s future, this does not mean that the region wi…
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Jagdish Bhagwati
America’s Threat to Trans-Pacific Trade
MUMBAI – As if undermining the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks was not bad enough (the last ministerial mee…
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Michael Spence
The Exchange-Rate Delusion
MILAN – If one looks at the trade patterns of the global economy’s two biggest players, two facts leap out. One is that, while the United St…
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Joseph S. Nye
Obama’s Pacific Pivot
CAMBRIDGE – Asia’s return to the center of world affairs is the great power shift of the twenty-first century. In 1750, Asia had roughly thr…
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