Dexter Tiff Roberts is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative and a fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center. He teaches political science at the University of Montana. He previously was the China bureau chief for Bloomberg Businessweek and was based in Beijing for more than two decades. He is the author of The Myth of Chinese Capitalism and writes the Trade War newsletter.
The Western media is wrong, China’s economy is fine, and Hong Kong is still a great place to do business: that was the message from Chinese and international bankers who met in Hong Kong this week. Are they barking mad?
How did business respond to last week’s Party meeting that set Xi Jinping up for another decade of dominance? Badly, says Dexter Tiff Roberts, author of “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism,” amid existential angst about what role the private sector will be allowed to play in Xi’s new era.
What does it mean when Xi Jinping tells China and the world that he is far more focused on security than on the struggling economy? Dexter Tiff Roberts, author of "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism," is not optimistic.
“You’d think people would have learned their lesson after watching Xi Jinping emerge as one of the most conservative, ideological leaders of China in decades,” writes Myth of Chinese Capitalism author Dexter Tiff Roberts: “I certainly learned mine.”
This was supposed to be China’s century, but the country may never surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy, argues veteran China business reporter Dexter Tiff Roberts in the latest installment of his weekly column for The China Project.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met today in Uzbekistan during Xi’s first foreign trip in 970 days. But despite their ‘no limits’ partnership, there are, in fact, serious limits, argues veteran China business reporter Dexter Tiff Roberts in the latest installment of his weekly column for The China Project.
City and county governments in China are facing a real estate meltdown, prolonged COVID restrictions, debt, and economic uncertainty: Something has got to give.
It’s the consumers, stupid.
Rumors, tweets, and even reports in serious newspapers are suggesting that Premier Li Keqiang is challenging Xi Jinping’s authoritarian rule, and may even put an end to Xi’s plans to rule for a third term after the upcoming Party Congress. Forget about it, argues veteran China business journalist Dexter Tiff Roberts.
Dexter Tiff Robers began reporting on Chinese companies in the 1990s as they first emerged on the world stage and began raising money on Wall Street. But now, as five more SOEs announce NYSE delistings, he thinks China’s corporate giants seem to be departing the U.S. for good.