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Yasheng Huang

Yasheng Huang

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Yasheng Huang, Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, is the author of the forthcoming book The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline (Yale University Press, August 2023).

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  1. How to Kill Chinese Dynamism
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    How to Kill Chinese Dynamism

    Aug 18, 2023 Yasheng Huang thinks many have underestimated the key role that Hong Kong previously played in the country's growth story.

  2. China's Moment of Decision
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    China's Moment of Decision

    Mar 7, 2022 Yasheng Huang explains why the country's lower-key, less moralistic approach to Russia may prove essential.

  3. Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition
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    Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition

    Dec 14, 2020 Yasheng Huang thinks psychology, rather than demographics, provides the key to contemporary US electoral politics.

  4. Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?
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    Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?

    May 22, 2019 Yasheng Huang says Chinese policymakers should repair relations with the West rather than push large infrastructure projects.

  5. America’s Second Sputnik Moment?
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    America’s Second Sputnik Moment?

    Jul 6, 2018 Yasheng Huang says the US should respond to “Made in China 2025” with the same urgency as during the space race.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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