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Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in 2013. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool/File Photo Chinese negotiators surprised their European Union counterparts this week with key market-access concessions—following long months of intransigence—that could allow the two parties to reach an agreement on a historic investment deal by year’s end. Though EU officials haven’t yet revealed the details, one senior EU diplomat said the agreement goes beyond anything Beijing has offered any foreign partner previously, both in the level of market access and legal a...

Op-Ed: China’s Xi Jinping seeks advantage over Biden with ground-breaking EU investment deal CNBC 12/20/2020 Frederick Kempe Though EU officials haven't yet revealed the details, one senior EU diplomat said the agreement goes beyond anything Beijing has offered any foreign partner previously. The agreement comes shortly after Americans elected Joe Biden, following a campaign during which he pledged to rally allies in Europe and Asia to counteract China's unfair trade practices. It's clear that President Xi regards 2021, the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party, as per...

China’s Latest Economic Buzzword: ‘Demand-Side Reform’ A store employee dresses a mannequin on Nov. 2 at a department store in Urumqi, Northwest China Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Supply-side structural reform has been a top policy objective for China since it was first introduced by President Xi Jinping in late 2015, but a new buzzword has now entered the country’s economic lexicon — “demand-side reform” (需求侧改革). The phrase made its public debut on Friday at the latest meeting of China’s Politburo, the ruling Communist Party’s top decision-making body chaire...

December 9th, 2020 by Kevin Rudd The following is the full text of ASPI President  Kevin Rudd's prepared remarks, which he delivered in part during an Asia Society virtual discussion on December 9, 2020. While both America and the world were transfixed by the U.S. presidential election on the 3rd of November, very few people would have noticed that just five days before, China concluded a major meeting of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party which outlined the core of elements of Chinese political and economic strategy for the next 15 years. The truism is true: ou...

Posted by Administrator on The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on Wednesday held an advanced seminar on governance via video, strictly abiding by the health guidelines of both countries. Minister Song Tao of the International Department of Central Committee of CPC, Party Secretary Liu Cigui of CPC Provincial Committee of Hainan Province, SLPP Chairman Professor G.L. Peiris, Secretary General Sagara Kariyawasam, SLPP MPs including Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, Namal Rajapaksa and Ramesh Pathirana together with some State Ministers and Mayors from the ...