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Economy

Hong Kong’s “Special Trading Status” with the United States: What is at Stake?

Thursday, June 4, 2020
Washington’s threats to end Hong Kong’s special trade status could call into question the city's presence as a separate customs entity and international trading hub.

Resolving the China-US Competition and the Greater Global Challenge

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Any accelerated decoupling of the US and Chinese economies is bound to have serious implications for the trading, technology and financial partners of both nations.

Geopolitics

US-China Competition: It’s the Economy, Thucydides

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Graham Allison’s “Thucydides trap” is not a trigger for war, but only the pre-condition for hegemonic conflict.

Geopolitics

Covid-19 and the Implementation of Xi Jinping’s Major-Power Diplomacy

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Tensions between China and the US have been exacerbated by the emergence of a more assertive China on the global stage and Xi Jinping’s pursuit of major-power diplomacy

Featured

Population & Society

Shaping the Political Narrative of Hong Kong’s Opposition Movement

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Massimiliano Santini

What has kept the Hong Kong protests going? 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow Massimiliano Santini believes it's all about political narrative.

Geopolitics

The China-US Technological Competition and its Opportunity Costs

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Chen Xi

The US-China trade dispute is much more than a battle over a US$420 billion deficit, what the tensions are really about is a race for “geo-technological” superiority.

Economy

Could the US and China Have Avoided Escalating Their Trade War?

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Zhiwu Chen

The rise in trade tensions between the US and China may be due to the American side’s failure to appreciate the implications of China’s not being a rule-of-law country – that administrative action, not laws on the books, get things done in China, writes Zhiwu Chen, Director of the Asia Global Institute (AGI) and Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

AsiaGlobal Voices

Trending Opinions From Across the Region

South Korea

Regulations Out of Touch with Reality

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

The decisive force in the market is consumers’ choice, not more regulations.

Philippines

The Jobs-Education Mismatch From The Students’ Perspective

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

The biggest mismatch is in the graduates’ lack of the core skills of critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills, much more than technical skills.

Indonesia

An Unconscionable Prisoner Policy

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

We applaud the decision to release almost 40,000 prisoners at risk from the Covid-19 pandemic, but prisoners of conscience are excluded from the policy.

South Korea

Parental Neglect, Filial Piety and the Hara Goo Law

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

South Korean society is witnessing the rise of another extreme of "filial litigation".

Japan

The Coronavirus Relief Allowance for Children is too Small

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

To prevent households with children from having no rice to eat today, the allowance should be at least 30,000 yen per child.

Sri Lanka

Quarantine Vs Commemorations

Friday, May 22, 2020

Is quarantine a method of punishment?

News from Asia Global Institute

INTERVIEW | IS JAPAN READY FOR A COVID-19 OUTBREAK? | YOSHIKAZU KATO

Monday, March 2, 2020

Yoshikazu Kato, Adjunct Associate Professor, Asia Global Institute

While the Japanese government maintains the country is safe from a large-scale COVID-19 epidemic, many people worry that the virus may over-stretch its medical system. Our adjunct associate professor Yoshikazu Kato shares his views on the subject with CGTN.

OP-ED I CHINA’S RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Monday, February 3, 2020

Ananth Krishnan, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, Asia Global Institute

China is facing its ultimate test with the Novel Coronavirus outbreak. Ananth Krishnan, 2019 AsiaGlobal Fellow, gives his take on China’s response to the new virus.

OP-ED I DEMOCRACY IN MALAWI I GEORGE LWANDA AND JOHN CHIPEMBERE LWANDA

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

2018 AsiaGlobal Fellow George Lwanda and John Chipembere Lwanda

2018 AsiaGlobal Fellow George Lwanda and John Chipembere Lwanda argue that Scotland has a moral obligation founded on its historical and cultural links with Malawi to publicly take a stand that supports and not compromises the democratic will of the people of Malawi.

PODCAST | THE HONG KONG PROTESTS: THE VIEW FROM CAMPUS | ALEJANDRO REYES

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Alejandro T. Reyes

Asia Global Institute Director of Knowledge Dissemination Alejandro Reyes speaks with SupChina on the Hong Kong protests.

Hong Kong’s “Special Trading Status” with the United States: What is at Stake?

Resolving the China-US Competition and the Greater Global Challenge

US-China Competition: It’s the Economy, Thucydides

Covid-19 and the Implementation of Xi Jinping’s Major-Power Diplomacy

Featured

Shaping the Political Narrative of Hong Kong’s Opposition Movement

The China-US Technological Competition and its Opportunity Costs

Could the US and China Have Avoided Escalating Their Trade War?

AsiaGlobal Voices

Trending Opinions From Across the Region

Regulations Out of Touch with Reality

The Jobs-Education Mismatch From The Students’ Perspective

An Unconscionable Prisoner Policy

Parental Neglect, Filial Piety and the Hara Goo Law

The Coronavirus Relief Allowance for Children is too Small

Quarantine Vs Commemorations

News from Asia Global Institute

INTERVIEW | IS JAPAN READY FOR A COVID-19 OUTBREAK? | YOSHIKAZU KATO

OP-ED I CHINA’S RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

OP-ED I DEMOCRACY IN MALAWI I GEORGE LWANDA AND JOHN CHIPEMBERE LWANDA

PODCAST | THE HONG KONG PROTESTS: THE VIEW FROM CAMPUS | ALEJANDRO REYES

ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL ISSUES

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