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Xiao Geng

Xiao Geng

Writing for PS since 2012
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Xiao Geng, Chairman of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, is a professor and Director of the Institute of Policy and Practice at the Shenzhen Finance Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

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  1. Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation
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    Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation

    Sep 26, 2023 Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the link between access to global markets and investment in research and development.

  2. A Tech War Without Winners
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    A Tech War Without Winners

    Aug 29, 2023 Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng consider the dire economic and geopolitical implications of the escalating Sino-American rivalry.

  3. The Irresistible Rise of the Rest
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    The Irresistible Rise of the Rest

    Jul 26, 2023 Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng urge the West to recognize the capabilities and demands of emerging powers like China and India.

  4. China’s Stunted Transformation
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    China’s Stunted Transformation

    Jun 30, 2023 Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the challenges the country faces in implementing its “dual circulation” strategy.

  5. How to Restructure Chinese Supply Chains
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    How to Restructure Chinese Supply Chains

    May 30, 2023 Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that private markets can be leveraged to support a much-needed economic transformation.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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