China View

US President Donald Trump’s all-out assault on China seems to have backfired.

The poster child for technical innovation in China is the DCEP, or sovereign digital currency. The DCEP is designed to remove trade settlement and cross border remittances from the group of the US dollar-based SWIFT settlement system.

China will be one of the few countries growing in 2020 amid a global recession.

Livestreaming e-commerce has emerged as one of the hottest trends in marketing and can change the retail landscape, if it is sustainable.

Nestled within this flow of news are other sets of statistical information that point the way to investment opportunities outside of — but directly related to — China.

(Feb 7): The novel coronavirus means it is crunch time for businesses, not just in terms of slowdowns or the collapse of tourism and international student numbers.

SINGAPORE (Jan 17): Let the collateral damage begin now that the Phase 1 trade deal between China and the US has been signed. The headline is a pledge by China to purchase an additional US$200 billion ($269.2 billion) of US farm products and other goods a

(Dec 9): In what has become a normal week, US President Donald Trump has imposed new tariffs on friends, foes and innocent bystanders. This includes the French, and several Latin American countries. He has indicated that a China trade deal may be off unti

SINGAPORE (May 6): Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping did some fine-tuning to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the global conference in Beijing. All of these changes are designed to accelerate China’s global commercial engagement by making inv

SINGAPORE (Apr 15): Where do I allocate my long-term investment capital to maximise growth? Globalisation offered many opportunities and a means to diversify risk. It made sense to allocate funds to US markets and to the fast-rising Chinese markets. I, li