Beijing's ambitious plans to become an innovation powerhouse have produced mixed results.
Asia is slowing down. Growth will struggle to top 4 percent in 2022, with China growing at under 3 percent. Given that China has been the most powerful locomotive of Asian growth in recent decades, the implications of this are highly significant, not least for the world economy.
Most explanations for the slowdown have focused on short-run pressures from China’s zero-Covid policy and the unfolding fall in real estate values. The implications for financial and government institutions’ balan
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Washington’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act was seen as a generational opportunity for miners in the U.S. as well as mineral rich trading partners. But almost two years later, the North American mining industry is in crisis and no closer to chipping away at China's dominance. What went wrong?
The academic explains why we need to look beyond the actions of the Chinese government to understand how and why China is shaping countries in the region.
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