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    • Mar 7, 2020
    • 4 min

    China as a global lender

    By Irchiro Suzuki A recent Harvard Business Review article reveals some facts about China as a global lender. China lends some 150...
    • Feb 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    Japan’s Consumption Tax

    The Japanese government played extremely carefully on the last round of consumption tax hike on October 1, from 8 to 10%. It was only 2%...
    • Feb 25, 2020
    • 4 min

    Softbank and Activist Fund

    By Ichiro Suzuki Earlier this month, Paul Singer of activist fund Elliot Management Corp has announced that his firm has built a $3...
    • Feb 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    Rise of Tesla

    By Ichiro Suzuki Tesla has lately stunned the investment world with a sharp upswing. Having more than tripled its share price in a few...
    • Feb 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    Paternity leave in Japan

    By Ichiro Suzuki Writing laws is an easy part. The real game is making the sprit of the law stand. That’s a lot tougher part since it...
    • Jan 31, 2020
    • 6 min

    When Technology Meets Tyranny

    By Peter Zhang Back in May 2014, Stephen Hawking, along with several other scientists, warned the world: “Success in creating AI...
    • Jan 31, 2020
    • 7 min

    Beijing’s Achilles’ Heel: Lack of Legitimacy

    By Peter Zhang When Her Majesty’s subjects in the British Commonwealth rise to sing “God Save the Queen” at a World Cup soccer game, few...
    • Jan 31, 2020
    • 6 min

    Taiwan Shows China Open Society Is the Future

    By Peter Zhang In Homer’s “Odyssey,” the notorious Trojan horse was a formidable gift from the Greeks. Later, the Roman poet Virgil...
    • Jan 31, 2020
    • 7 min

    The Kingdom of Fake News: A Study of Beijing’s Propaganda Campaign Against Falun Gong

    By Peter Zhang Amidst the ongoing debate over so-called fake news in the United States, American media outlets lack any kind of...
    • Jan 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    Japanification

    By Ichiro Suzuki It was called the Japan disease prior to the global financial crisis. The Japanese economy was mired in persistent slow...
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 7 min

    The False Promise of Beijing’s One Belt, One Road Initiative

    By Peter Zhang It’s safe to assume that Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel laureate in economics, wasn’t kidding when he authored “There’s...
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    2019 Starts Slowly for China’s Economy

    By Peter Zhang 2019 is the Year of the Pig. Legend has it that one day, the Jade Emperor, a fabled ruler of heaven and Earth, decided to...
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 6 min

    Beijing’s Stepped-Up Repression: The Darkest Hours Before the Dawn

    By Peter Zhang Sausages may look awfully tasty on the plate, but few would perhaps wish to know the entire sausage-making process. These...
    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 5 min

    Beijing’s New Hostage Diplomacy

    By Peter Zhang With Beijing’s retaliation for Canada's arrest of the CFO of China’s technology giant, Huawei, the Chinese regime has...
    • Jan 20, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Chinese Regime’s Fragile Doctrine of Self-Confidence

    By Peter Zhang A video showing policemen in Shenzhen walking into a young woman’s apartment last month and taking her away in the middle...
    • Jan 20, 2020
    • 5 min

    Moral Courage Needed in Reconsidering China Policy

    By Peter Zhang Benjamin Franklin once said, “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” In the wake of the obvious fact that the U.S.-led...
    • Jan 20, 2020
    • 6 min

    Taming the Red Dragon in the Trade War

    By Peter Zhang Washington is understandably seeking to resort to all available means to level the playing field in the current trade war...
    The Chinese Regime Aims to Vanquish Capitalism With Socialism, but What’s Really at Stake?
    • Jan 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Chinese Regime Aims to Vanquish Capitalism With Socialism, but What’s Really at Stake?

    By Peter Zhang Amid intense trade negotiations between Beijing and Washington on April 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s 2013 speech to...
    China’s Lending to the Less Developed World
    • Jan 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    China’s Lending to the Less Developed World

    The Economist article below reveals how China has been lending practices to the less developed world, as the country has grown to be the lar
    Latin America Faces a Second Lost Decade
    • Jan 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    Latin America Faces a Second Lost Decade

    Yet again, another tough decade is ahead for Latin America as Peronists returned to power in Argentina, a left wing populist is at the helm
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