Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth The Chinese economy is distorted by over-investment and over-reliance on exports, Chinese economist Yu Yongding told The Chicago Council Monday evening. Fixing these problems will be hard, even dangerous, he said, but ...
After four decades of near stagnation, India has emerged only twenty years ago as a newly dynamic economy and rising power in Asia. But just as quickly it seems, India’s growth has recently slumped badly, its politics have been laced with scandal, its soci ...
Summary by Richard C. Longworth North Korea is an incompetent and forbidding country, actually proud of its isolation and opacity, led by a young president “not ready for prime time,” Ambassador Chris Hill told The Chicago Council Tuesday evening. Its nuc ...
Summary by Richard C. Longworth The swift and extraordinary rise of Asian nations to global power has created a “new Asian great game” of competition and rivalry that could “threaten instability and even war,” Marshall Bouton told a Chicago Council audien ...
Building a golf course is illegal in China – but that hasn’t stopped hundreds from being financed and constructed in recent years. While the roots of the sport stem back to the Ming Dynasty, Chinese leadership has deemed the sport too wasteful of public mo ...
Tempered optimism sums up corporate America’s view of its business prospects in China, according to The US-China Business Council’s annual survey. While US business in China continues to post strong growth, US companies invested there face significant cha ...
Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth Raghuram Rajan, the Chicago economist who is now India’s central bank chief, told The Chicago Council Friday that India has laid the basis for long-range stability after three years of slowing growth, falling reserves ...
Is conflict with China avoidable? While the United States and China have seen decades of competitive but peaceful relations, the future is uncertain. China has continued to increase military spending and expand its presence into contested areas that have c ...
Over one million Chinese emigrated to Africa from 2000-2013, resulting in what Howard French calls “China’s second continent.” This immense migration is about more than exchanging resource rights for infrastructure; French contends that it is also about Ch ...
On May 16, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), out of power for a decade, secured the first single-party electoral majority in India’s lower house of Parliament in three decades. Vowing to jumpstart economic growth through econo ...
