Following eight years of negotiations, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) came into effect on January 1, 2022.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt two rounds of blows to the global economy.

Faced with a series of risks and the increasing possibility of both economic and military confrontation, what can China and the EU do to combat US actions and address an overall weakness in the international community? Dominique de Villepin explains his vision for a new approach to globalisation.  

There is no doubt that China has made remarkable progress in becoming an innovation-driven economy. The Global Innovation Index 2016 ranked China 25th in the world and first among upper-middle income economies. In this respect, China is once again a role model for emerging economies on how to effectively formulate policies and allocate resources to achieve national goals. As Chinese companies strive to climb higher up the innovation ladder, they should think about engaging more deeply with India in order to leverage its huge talent pool, as their Western counterparts have done for a long time.