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To truly solve long-running conflicts in Southeast Asia, ceasefires must yield peace dividends that include better economic opportunities.
China needs a new economic growth model, with a different financial system, modified state sector, and the political reforms necessary to accommodate both.
Experts disagree how soon rising consumption can replace investment as an engine of economic growth in China, a question that will determine whether or not China undergoes a painful rebalancing.
Asia is being pulled in two different directions, as economic trends encourage peaceful integration while security concerns spark conflicts. Resolving this tension will determine the region's future.
As a new generation of leaders emerges at China's 18th Congress, they will need to figure out how to keep the world's second largest economy on track.
Growth forecasts based on China's current development model overstate future growth rates because they fail to account for structural shifts during the necessary rebalancing process.
Vested interests pose a significant challenge to enacting the crucial reforms to China’s state sector, financial and fiscal systems, and urbanization policy that will enable continued growth.
In order to sustain the bullish argument for China's growth prospects over the next decade, questions debt, further investment projects, and growth rate of household consumption must be answered.
There is increasing concern that China’s economic slowdown is intensifying. However it turns out, this slowdown is occurring at a particularly inopportune time for China—just as the next generation of leaders is being anointed.
China and Japan both stand to lose if territorial disputes disrupt normal economic relations. Changing roles in the regional production sharing network, energy needs, and political rhetoric are all complicating the picture.