On November 7, 2025, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) hosted an online lecture entitled Great Power Competition, Government Capacity and the Market Economy's Origins. This lecture was presented by Wang Yijiang, Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. The webinar represented the twenty-second installment in SAGE's Lectures in Government and Economics Series.

Foreign and Chinese companies are already scrambling to explore vast opportunities on Hainan, as the island province is poised to officially begin its special customs operations next month. Hainan Free Trade Port will implement major favorable tariff policies from Dec 18, with the proportion of products eligible for zero tariffs rising sharply from 21 percent to 74 percent. International organizations, company executives and experts have highlighted the importance of the changes amid rising tr

China called on the US to avoid four sensitive issues so a trade truce sealed between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can hold, highlighting the broad array of disagreements that will test ties. Ambassador to the US Xie Feng named Taiwan, democracy and human rights, China’s political system, and development rights as Beijing’s four red lines, adding that “the most important thing is to respect each other’s core interests and major concerns.” Xie made the remarks in a virtual speech to a

The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his American counterpart Donald Trump was a breakthrough in bilateral relationship where the Asian giant was treated as an “equal partner” of the US, according to David Daokui Li, a regular policy adviser to Beijing. “Among all the meetings between the two leaders, this one is perhaps the most important — really historical,” said Li, an economics professor at Tsinghua University and a former adviser to the Chinese central bank. “Fundamentally

On October 31, 2025, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) hosted an online lecture entitled China's Regional Competition and Unique Relationship between Government and the Market. This lecture was presented by Zhou Li'an, Director of Peking University's Faculty of Economics and Management and Boya Chair Professor of Applied Economics at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. The webinar represented the twenty-first installment in SAGE's Lectures in Governme

​The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convened its fourth plenary session in Beijing from Monday to Thursday. Participants at the session deliberated over and adopted the Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development, according to a communique of the session released on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee presided over the meeting.

Ahead of the meeting of U.S. President Trump and Chinese President Xi, former PBOC advisor David Daokui Li gave his assessment on the state of the trade war between the two powers.​