Since the formal launch of the renminbi trade settlement scheme in 2009, renminbi internationalization has made impressive inroads. The progress in renminbi trade settlement is especially impressive. However, Hong Kong, China’s offshore renminbi deposits failed to make significant progress as...

While the sovereign debt crisis continues worsening in the Euro area, European partners are still hesitating in offering some help, considering that Europe must rely primary on its own resources and fix its failed governance. Still, this crisis constitutes a new, major risk for other countries,...

China has run a current account surplus for two decades. Its current account surplus is not simply a result of the saving gap. Rather, the current account surplus, as well as the saving gap, is a result of complicated interaction among various factors in a dynamic fashion. While running a large...

The Commission's annual Richard Snape Lecture was presented by Professor Yu Yongding from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) on 25 November 2009 in Melbourne.In an address titled ‘China's Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis' Professor Yu described how the Chinese...