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Roach on China

14 commentaries

Stephen S. Roach, former Chief Economist at Morgan Stanley Asia, is among the world's most respected China analysts. In this selection of commentaries, written exclusively for Project Syndicate, he assesses how China can maintain rapid GDP growth and address its economic vulnerabilities.

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  1. Long Live China’s Slowdown
    ve1577c.jpg Chris Van Es

    Long Live China’s Slowdown

    Apr 27, 2013 Stephen S. Roach on China must embrace slower growth.

  2. China on the Move
    pa3444c.jpg Paul Lachine

    China on the Move

    Mar 29, 2013 Stephen S. Roach on China's new growth strategy.

  3. China’s Last Soft Landing?
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    China’s Last Soft Landing?

    Jan 29, 2013 Stephen S. Roach

  4. China’s Dream Team
    dr641c.jpg Dean Rohrer

    China’s Dream Team

    Nov 28, 2012 Stephen S. Roach

  5. China is Okay
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    China is Okay

    Aug 29, 2012 Stephen S. Roach

  6. Asia Exposed
    cda67f0346f86f900c795f0c_m4688c.jpg Barrie Maguire

    Asia Exposed

    May 28, 2012 Stephen S. Roach

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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

    shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.

    about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
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    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
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    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

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