What Can Europe Learn from a More Open China?
In an interconnected world, resilience is not found behind thicker walls, but in building more and stronger bridges. For the sake of European prosperity, it is a lesson worth heeding.
In an interconnected world, resilience is not found behind thicker walls, but in building more and stronger bridges. For the sake of European prosperity, it is a lesson worth heeding.
Multiple signs suggest this year’s WEF marks a geopolitical and geo-economic inflection point.
China’s 2025 economic performance demonstrates a successful balance between stability and transformation.
The Hainan FTP underscore China’s determination to advance high-standard opening-up and build the Hainan FTP into an open platform of international influence.
While tariffs are raised to guard against perceived unfairness, China is lowering barriers through codified, rules-based systems designed to endure.
For China, it creates a strategic junction for domestic and international economic circulation, boosting high-level openness to drive domestic reform and providing a pivotal platform for China’s deeper participation in Asia-Pacific economic integration.
To deal with a polluted by-product of coal production, central China’s Shanxi Province has explored a governance path that addresses both the symptoms and root causes.
China’s ‘common prosperity’ policy is a multidimensional pursuit of social and economic progress aimed at full realization by 2050.
Through industrial upgrading, attraction of skilled personnel, cultural preservation, ecological improvement, and governance optimization, China is striving to build a more prosperous and beautiful countryside.
While challenges remain, the underlying trends – a massive and upgrading domestic market, a relentless drive for technological self-reliance and innovation, a clear commitment to green transformation, and an ever-deepening integration with the world – point to an economy with ample potential.
In a world filled with uncertainty, China’s steady, strategically guided, and forward-looking development approach demonstrates that its economy not only has strong resilience but also shows dynamic, enduring momentum.
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy, with its isolationist and confrontational approach towards allies and China, is a desperate fiction that undermines genuine American prosperity and security.