Blog post
31 May 2021
For the climate, Asia-Pacific must phase out fossil-fuel subsidies
An exit from coal in the Asia-Pacific region is a global decarbonisation priority.
Blog post
31 May 2021
An exit from coal in the Asia-Pacific region is a global decarbonisation priority.
Policy brief
26 May 2021
This Policy Contribution has a purposefully narrow focus, ie China’s business practices and their effects on western firms.
Opinion piece
10 May 2021
It is in everybody's interest for China to level the playing field among state-owned, private, and foreign companies so that no new distortionary meas
Blog post
04 May 2021
Despite the pandemic, China’s interest in overseas M&A started to rebound in late 2020, with European industrial companies still of particular interes
Blog post
14 April 2021
China’s new long-term targets, to reach peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, are yet to be matched with a consistent shor
Opinion piece
06 April 2021
Ultimately, only time will tell if this landmark trade agreement will be productive and counter the potential bifurcation of international value chain
Opinion piece
10 March 2021
Interestingly, the growth target for 2021 is pretty humble: over 6 percent for 2021, while most forecasts hover between 7 and 10 percent.
Policy brief
23 February 2021
The concept of competitive neutrality can be used to assess how far a market is from being a competitive environment.
Opinion piece
19 January 2021
For the moment, it does not look like we have the basis for greater and deeper economic relations with China. However, dismissing China and the opport
Opinion piece
04 January 2021
Why rush a deal that is so inherently complex?
Policy brief
21 December 2020
After decades of increasing globalisation, there now seems to be a slowing, or even a turn to deglobalisation, meaning decelerating trade and investme
Blog post
17 December 2020
A look into the potential Comprehensive Agreement on Investment between China and the European Union.
Opinion piece
08 December 2020
An ageing population is generally bad news for growth prospects, but Japan and Taiwan offer important lessons.
Blog post
27 November 2020
The European Union owes much of its economic weight to its regional value chain and integration into the global value chain. But the EU’s global value
Opinion piece
27 November 2020
COVID-19 almost one year on, it is time to assess who passed the test, and who failed.
Blog post
19 November 2020
Although the economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for the EU are modest, the geopolitical and strategic imp