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Bert HofmanChina. Asia, Development, Economics
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What to expect when you are expecting a summit
The Chinese media story of Xi-Trump diplomacy is a story of diminishing expectations. In 2017, official media could still present personal diplomacy as opening a new phase of pragmatic cooperation and great power diplomacy (a term entertain...
Deconstructing the 15th Five Year Plan
China’s 15th Five Year Plan, spanning 2026-203 was approved by the National People’s Congress in its March 2026 session. The plan, a good 80,000 Chinese characters long, offered few major surprises. This is for two reasons: one there is a l...
China as number 3?
The latest OECD long term scenarios, released without much fanfare in September last year, suggest that India will overtake be the largest economy by the 2060, and will be almost twice the size of China by the end of the century (Figure 1)....
Tianjin Declaration
Since I have not seen yet the official translation I compiled a number of tweets of the All India Radio News to get the Tianjin Declaration of the Shanghai Security Organization. The organization, which started in 1996 as the “Shanghai 5” b...
A Committee to Save the Rest of the World
[Note: this is a more elaborate version of a comment I did for the Hinrich Foundation. Do read that one if you like shorter pieces!]
The first months of the second Trump administration has been a wild ride. On day one, Trump announced dise...
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Writing about China, Asia, and development issues. Professor, East Asian Institute, NUS Former World Bank Country Director China, Philippines, Chief Economist East Asia
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