China's Economic Arrival

Damien Ma is Director of MacroPolo, the Think Tank at the Paulson Institute. He is the author of In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China’s Ascent in the Next Decade. He also serves as adjunct faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. Previously, Ma was a Senior Analyst at Eurasia Group, the political risk research and advisory firm. At EG, he focused on the China and East Asia markets, covering areas that spanned energy and commodities and industrial policy to elite politics and US-China relations. He also led work on analyzing Mongolian politics and its mining sector. His advisory and analytical work served a range of clients from institutional investors and multinationals to the US, Japanese, and Singaporean governments.

1. Introduction.- 2. Liaoning: The Smothering Effects of Local Protectionism.- 3. Slow, Steady, Cheap, and Painless: Making Sense of China’s Bad Loan Strategy.- 4. Who Loses from Restricting Chinese Student Visas?.- 5. From Windfalls to Pitfalls: Qualcomm’s China Conundrum.- 6. In Xi We Trust: How Propaganda Might be Working in the New Era.- 7. Who Rules China? Comparing Representation on the NPC and Central Committee.- 8. Reluctant Stakeholder: Why China’s Highly Strategic Brand of Revisionism is More Challenging than Washington Thinks.- 9. For Company and For Country: Boeing and US-China Relations.- 10. Conclusion.