Derek Scissors is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and U.S. economic relations with Asia. He also serves on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and as the chief economist of the China Beige Book, which provides reliable data on China’s economy. Scissors has served as a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation and an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University. Scissors holds an A.B. in economics from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and Ph.D.in international political economy from Stanford University.
Derek Scissors.Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese government has expanded its presence in corporate governance, seeming to blur the line between non-state and state-owned entities. Do you think Beijing is in danger of sacrificing growth for increased contr