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Malaysia’s National Automotive Policy is currently under review so the time is ripe for change. The objective should be to alter the incentive structure away from domestic market protection and toward increased competition.
As Xi Jinping, China’s designated next leader, visits the United States, he faces protests over unfair competition and currency manipulation. More worrying than a trade war, however, is the potential for increased tension over technology transfers between China and the United States.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the United States will be an opportunity to represent America’s issues frankly and privately. However, it is important to leave partisan politics out of the visit.
China’s impact on the U.S. economy and its rising global power gives China a significant role in the Republican primaries for the 2012 U.S. presidential elections.
Four worrying trends cast a cloud over Southeast Asia in the new year, but there may be a silver lining in Myanmar's re-entry into the international community.
Waste in China’s infrastructure investment highlights the fact that China’s development model is unable to keep GDP growth levels high without explosive debt growth.
President Ma faces a full agenda as he prepares to launch his second four-year term on May 20, with high costs of housing and education, stagnant incomes, and changing lifestyles threatening Taiwan's economic growth.
China's economic imbalances are the result of urbanization and migration, not financial policy, and expanding residence rights for migrants would do more to boost consumption than fiddling with interest rates.
Global trade imbalances would moderate and China’s growth would be more robust if its citizens were less frugal.
As Taiwan's elections approach, Beijing and Washington are quietly hoping for the re-election of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and the maintenance of the status quo in cross-strait relations.