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South China Morning Post
6 days ago
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Forget the West – China think tanks must be ‘self-centred' to project soft power: expert
China's think-tanks should pay more attention to the nation's actual conditions and rely less on Western knowledge, according to a leading Chinese scholar, who said policy advisers could better reflect and project the country's soft power by incorporating 'Chinese characteristics'. Professor Zheng Yongnian, a political economist with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, who is also a Beijing policy adviser, said that to better explain Chinese practices to the world and anticipate the country's future, such organisations should be based on an 'indigenous knowledge system'. The root and power of a country's rise was the 'rise of ideas', and think tanks were the core and soul of a country's ' soft power ', Zheng said in an interview in Tuesday's issue of Chinese Social Sciences Today, a newspaper published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Zheng Yongnian, an adviser to Beijing's policymakers, at a seminar last September. Photo: CUHK-Shenzhen Chinese think tanks, Zheng said, focused more on practicality compared with the research and analysis conducted in universities. 'Some universities' 'academism' in social science research is still stuck in Western textbooks. Their policy analysis also tends to be more of a post-analysis function,' he said. 'Think tanks, on the other hand, focus more on public policies in Chinese practice from the perspective of empirical research, exploring their formation, evolution and future development direction, as well as how decisions are made, implemented and supervised by the government and provide feedback,' Zheng told the newspaper. 'Only by truly building an indigenous knowledge system based on China's practical experience and realising 'self-centredness' can we truly explain China's practices and predict China's future,' he added.
South China Morning Post
29-04-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Asean urged to weigh risks of siding with US over China in tariff war
Southeast Asian countries risk isolation by China and stalled growth prospects if they align too closely with the US in the trade war , a well-known Chinese political scientist has warned. Advertisement Zheng Yongnian, dean of the school of public policy at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, said that supporting the re-industrialisation efforts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was not the ultimate goal of the United States. Rather, it aimed to bring manufacturing back to the country, whereas China was better placed to help the 10-nation regional bloc in realising its goals, he said. 'Asean member states could be entrenched in greater challenges if their economic and trade relations with China are not managed well,' Zheng told the South China Morning Post on Sunday. He was speaking on the sidelines of the 3rd China-Asean Economic Relations Seminar, hosted by the university's Institute for International Affairs. Advertisement 'Some Asean countries would face stalled industrialisation and isolation by China if they choose to align more closely with Washington in the trade war, while the US would not assist them in achieving industrialisation,' Zheng cautioned.
South China Morning Post
10-04-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Who will feel the pain? US, China seek ‘economic resiliency' in endurance test: economists
With tit-for-tat tariffs escalating the US-China trade war to never-before-seen levels in the past week, their high-stakes game of one-upmanship could turn into a marathon that tests the long-term resilience of economic and industrial systems, according to prominent Chinese economists. Advertisement They also suggested a stronger dose of government stimulus to unleash domestic demand, noting that doing so will be of the utmost importance to China in navigating these turbulent times. 'What China and the US are competing for now is economic resilience,' said Zheng Yongnian, dean of the School of Public Policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Shenzhen campus (CUHK-Shenzhen). 'Our goal should be to build an industrial system with strong economic resilience; only in this way can we secure a dominant position in the long-term competition with the US,' he was quoted as saying by Xiakedao, a social media account run by overseas-edition staff from party mouthpiece People's Daily, on Wednesday. After the series of back-and-forth tariff salvoes, as it stands, Washington has imposed a 125 per cent tariff on Chinese imports, while Beijing's new levy on US goods has risen to 84 per cent, both effective now. Advertisement
South China Morning Post
10-03-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
China's nuclear tech drive, how Beijing should respond to Trump: SCMP daily highlights
Catch up on some of SCMP's biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing Beijing has set an ambitious target for the expansion of commercial applications for its nuclear technology in a variety of industries, projecting an annual economic output of 400 billion yuan (US$55.25 billion) by 2026. China's securities association has published new draft guidelines that will penalise companies whose staff flaunt their wealth and privilege, as Beijing continues its drive to remould an industry once known for its lavish lifestyle. Illustration: Victor Sanjinez Chinese political scientist Zheng Yongnian says if the country's private enterprises can't thrive, foreign capital won't either.
South China Morning Post
23-02-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
China is right to celebrate DeepSeek success but AI race isn't over, academic warns
DeepSeek's AI leap is a milestone innovation breakthrough for China but it does not change the overall leading position of the United States in the field of artificial intelligence , a prominent adviser to Beijing said. Advertisement While the rise of DeepSeek has 'naturally spawned a wave of strong nationalist sentiment', Beijing should be sober that it still lags far behind the US in tech and data quality, warned Zheng Yongnian, dean of the school of public policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Shenzhen campus (CUHK-Shenzhen). 'Excessive nationalism would be detrimental for China in the fiercer tech competition down the road,' Zheng posted on a social media account maintained by CUHK-Shenzhen on Friday. 05:00 Does the arrival of China's low-cost DeepSeek mean the end of Nvidia's chip dominance? Does the arrival of China's low-cost DeepSeek mean the end of Nvidia's chip dominance? DeepSeek, which is based in the eastern city of Hangzhou, stunned the world by releasing two groundbreaking AI models – the V3 large-scale language model in December and the R1 inference model – last month. These open-source models perform on par with leading chatbots developed by US tech giants, such as OpenAI and Google, but are cheaper to train. Chinese state media has been quick to champion the private company as a national asset in the country's competition for AI supremacy. People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, called it 'a testament to China's swift tech adoption, vision and unyielding drive for innovation' amid chip export sanctions by the US and its allies. Advertisement Zheng said that while the success of DeepSeek deserved the tributes, a populist mentality was not conducive to China's AI development. He noted that there remained a big gap between Beijing and Washington in chip technology and data quality, 'which is equally important – we need to be clear what DeepSeek has not changed'.
