Author: Nial Gooding

Leo Yu, Associate Clinical Professor of Legal Writing, Research and Advocacy at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law has produced a useful monograph not a paper, but I thought its contents sufficiently topical to highlight in light of the noise around TikTok. He argues that the front-and-center problem with TikTok is? It’s Chinese, […]

“The happiness of China’s residents is still at a relatively low level compared with the rest of the world. According to the World Happiness Report,..” note the research team in the paper highlighted today. Raising ‘happiness’ must then be a goal for a government that wants to maintain legitimacy and do the right thing by […]

Researchers Liya Wang and Hideo Owan from Japan’s Waseda University have found a relationship in China between gender diversity in firm’s top management teams (TMT) and corporate innovation. Having established the relationship they move on to consider the mechanism producing this effect. It’s been proven beyond doubt [This is my aside not part of the […]

The purpose of the paper looked at today is to explain where China’s AI legislative framework has come from and, of more interest, where it’s heading. The single most important point of the work is this: we’re going to hear more from China in future as a global industry regulator, standard setter and architect of […]

Here’s the key point from the piece looked over today; “..the US-China trade war may not be a turning point in the process of globalization but rather an opportunity for the reorganization of economic activities, both within and between countries.” Researchers Fanghua Li, Liyuan Wang and Li Zhang from the University of New South Wales, […]

The Peterson Institute for International Economics has crafted a document they hope will inform the incoming Trump administration about the future use of ‘sanctions’. To highlight the often useless nature of these, of all the examples they could have chosen they went with one especially pertinent to readers of this note involving Hong Kong’s former […]

From the longer document here I’ve extracted the key messages from each article with a link so you can follow up on each if you’re sufficiently interested. Larry Summer’s piece (second highlight, below) is especially helpful. CHINA’S REAL ESTATE CHALLENGE. Kenneth Rogoff -Maurits C. Boas Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Yuanchen Yang, eonomist in […]

Talk, and action, recently to ‘stimulate’ the Chinese economy seems to have ignored the fact the government have been trying this, and via pretty much the same route i.e. lower interest rates, since 2021. We can see it hasn’t been very successful since then so why (on earth!) do some think it’s about to start […]

[Researchers at the independent U.S. think-tank Rhodium Group produced a report earlier this year in July I’m revisiting today. It has particular merit being produced before the stimulus measures recently announced and highlights China’s biggest problem that those measures appeared to largely ignore.] It’s clear, China has a real problem with consumption, or the lack […]

That China listens to the IMF is a reassuring and observable fact. So, when the IMF produces a targeted analysis on China’s currently single most serious problem, growth or lack thereof, it’s worth a closer squint. In the IMF Working Paper at this link China’s Path to Sustainable and Balanced Growth staffers Dirk Muir, Natalija […]

In light of recent political developments in the United States do we think China-bashing by Western governments and Western media will: A. Continue as before? B. Decrease in intensity? C. Increase in intensity? If, like me, you believe C is the most likely outcome the paper highlighted today from Isha Agarawal of the University of […]

Researchers Hongtao Chen, Yunlang Wu and Jun Huang, all from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics found an interesting link between ESG ratings and audit fees. Along the way they note nearly 600 agencies are now providing ESG rating services globally with roughly 20 [Surely more? Ed.] of those in China. The problem with […]

[If the future of the ‘tech-war(s)’ is of more than passing interest I recommend you commit the 30-minutes or so a reading of the full text requires. The link is at the end.] Anu Bradford, Matthew C. Waxman and Eileen Li, all at the Law School of the Columbia University, in a pre-print for the […]

Joe Long from the Northwestern University (et al.) acknowledges one of the problems with this analysis is it covers a period when the region being studied, the western states of the United States, did pretty well. The conclusion of the work though is although white miners in the west were beneficiaries of the Chinese Exclusion […]

Michael R. Davidson at the School of Global Policy and StrategyMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of California, San Diego takes the long look at China’s coal ‘problem’. That coal in China is a problem, and one getting worse, is in no doubt. China consumes half of the world’s coal used, five times […]