U.S. set to take over China as No. 1 manufacturing power
By Chan King-cheung – In contrast with the importance given by the Hong Kong media to the Global Financial Centre Index (GFCI), their publicity of…
China
Rising to the challenge, shaping a different future
By Stuart Gulliver – Over the last twelve months, China has continued on its global path. Yet the last few months have also seen fresh…
Hong Kong an indispensable fund-raising platform for China
By Chan King-cheung – Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah is the only government official who responded to Moody’s downgrading of the outlook of Hong Kong’s…
Is ‘China risk’ a ‘Hong Kong opportunity’?
By Chan King-cheung – China’s propaganda machine was in full swing blasting the international rating agency Moody’s after it downgraded the outlook of China’s sovereign…
Closed minds and rising political violence
By Richard Wong Yue-chim – Unresolved and worsening socioeconomic problems are a necessary, but not sufficient cause for political violence to emerge. The resort to…
New economy plan needs old way to tackle rich-poor gap
By Chan King-cheung – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has delivered the 2016 government report at the opening session of the ongoing National People’s Congress plenum…
Patten calls for watch on China, Hong Kong freedoms
By Chris Yeung – In markedly harsher words indicative of the growing frets in Western countries about Hong Kong, last governor Chris Patten has fired…
Xiao Gang made scapegoat of China stock market chaos
By Chan King-cheung – It’s official. The leadership of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the mainland’s top securities watchdog, has changed. Mainland media announced on…
Xi may engineer a crisis in Taiwan Strait to divert attention of disgruntled Chinese
By Willy Lam – It is a standard policy of authoritarian regimes to divert the attention of its disgruntled citizens by engineering a foreign crisis….
DPP-ruled Taiwan may join US-led TPP in Straits game
By Chan King-cheung – The past eight years of peace across the Taiwan Strait can be largely attributed to the development of economic and trade…