Commentary

• Wang Huiyao: Can we build AIIB into GIIB

  ■ The recovery-boosting infrastructure spending sprees favoured by developed nations are out of reach for less-well-off countries that need them most ■ The AIIB has the scope and track record to expand to a global level and help those nations left behind   High-rise buildings loom over resi...
  SCMP  |  April 27 , 2021

• Wang Huiyao: China’s experience shows coronavirus second wave need not be a disaster

    By Wang Huiyao | President of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG) The good news is Beijing’s experience shows we can tame second waves in a way that minimises disruption through greater preparedness and understanding In the next stretch of the battle against the coronavirus, glob...
  South China Morning Post  |  July 02 , 2020

• Wang Huiyao: China to continue opening up despite COVID-19

    By Wang Huiyao | President of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG) From Bloomberg Opinion The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying the most destructive trends in global trade. Support for free trade has given way to talk of decoupling and de-globalization. Tensions between the U.S. and...
  Bloomberg  |  June 26 , 2020

• Reform the WTO for a post-coronavirus world

    Reform the WTO for a post-coronavirus world. The global economy needs a champion to lead it out of the crisis   ◆ Collapsing trade must be rebuilt to spur recovery. The WTO can work on addressing trade restrictions on key supplies in the short term, and lead discussions to lower tari...
  SCMP  |  June 08 , 2020

• Wang Huiyao: Effectiveness of Chinese democracy

    By Wang Huiyao | Founder of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG)   On the International Forum on Democracy: The Shared Human Values, around 500 participants from over 120 countries and regions, including former government leaders, business leaders, heads of media groups, expert...
  CGTN  |  December 18 , 2021

• Wang Huiyao: Build back better vs belt and road- to improve infrastructure, competition must yield to cooperation

  ■ With the US and Europe now seeking to outcompete China in funding infrastructure programmes across the developing world, the benefits of such goodwill can only be undermined by uncoordinated development.   The Lotus Tower in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which was built under the Belt and Road Init...
  SCMP  |  December 01 , 2021

• Wang Huiyao: Embracing the green spirit

  By Wang Huiyao | Founder of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG) Two major international events this week have underscored both the urgency for a rapid transition to clean technologies and the lucrative opportunities this shift will bring to multinational corporations (MNC) that can innova...
  CGTN  |  November 11 , 2021

• Wang Huiyao: ‘Consultative democracy’ a key part of our approach to democracy

  The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, April 29, 2020. /Xinhua   By Wang Huiyao | Founder of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG)   Democracy means rule by the people. Derived from ancient Greek, the term was coined from demos (“people”) and kratos (“r...
  CGTN  |  October 30 , 2021