Tag: #China
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A Middle Power Goes Its Own Way: Canada Rebalances Between Washington and Beijing
Author: Marián Šeliga, Head of China desk, Advisor to the Board of J&T bank Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited China last week, becoming the first Canadian leader to make an official trip to Beijing in nearly a decade. During the visit, Canada and China reached an agreement to significantly reset their economic and trade…
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China’s “too big to fail” property giant is facing serious challenges
Author: Marián Šeliga, Head of China desk at J&T Bank The Chinese property developer Vanke* is facing the most challenging period in its history. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, strict deleveraging measures introduced under President Xi Jinping, together with a steep fall in apartment sales, have placed many Chinese property developers under severe…
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Iran, Not Venezuela, Is China’s Bigger Strategic Concern
Author: Marián Šeliga, Head of China desk at J&T bank a.s. Over the past week, a wave of articles and interviews has focused on how political developments in Venezuela may affect China—particularly with regard to servicing Venezuela’s USD 10–16 billion debt to Chinese state banks and the continuation of Venezuelan oil supplies to the Chinese…
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From Tianjin to Tiananmen: SCO Summit Highlights Xi’s Global Governance Initiative, India’s Balancing Act, and Russia–China Advance Pipeline Deal
By Marián Šeliga, Head of China desk, Advisor to the Board at J&T Banka Xi opens SCO summit in Tianjin with speech calling for reforming current global governance system India’s Prime Minister takes part in the summit and shakes hands with Xi Jinping The summit, along with the information released on its sidelines, signals that…
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BRICS Summit: Brazil Hosts Without Putin and Xi
Written by: Marián Šeliga, Advisor to the Board and Head of China desk at J&T bank Since taking office in 2013, Xi Jinping has attended every BRICS summit until now. However, he did not participate in the latest summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sending Premier Li Qiang in his place. This is not the…
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China in 2049
Photo: FAS.org Prepared by: Marián Šeliga Russian Sinologists Forecast What Russia and the World Can Expect from China’s Development by 2049 In the coming years, China is expected to continue rapidly increasing its military spending, advancing its position as the third nuclear superpower. By 2035, Beijing may reach parity with Russia and the United States…
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Chinese Economist Gao Shenwen faces scrutiny
By Globinsider According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Gao Shenwen, a well-known economist and chief economist at SDIC Securities, has been banned from speaking publicly after making unprecedented comments about China’s GDP and economic policy. The comments were made during Gao’s recent trip to Washington. Gao Shenwen argued that the China’s GDP…
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