Stewart Paterson on China, economics, and geopolitics
Published 04 March 2025
As China grapples with economic malaise at home and US and global geopolitical challenges abroad, its role in the world economy has never been under greater scrutiny. Hinrich Foundation Senior Research Fellow Stewart Paterson visited Singapore over four days in February to discuss China’s challenges and future with policy experts and the media.
For some years now, China has been in a deepening economic slump, its longest since the global financial crisis. Tracking its trajectory even as the country shapes its growing global clout, the Hinrich Foundation's Senior Research Fellow Stewart Paterson has led the shaping the Foundation’s body of research on China’s role in the world economy.
Paterson visited Singapore in mid-February, meeting with the East Asian Institute, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, CNBC Asia, and other trade, China, and geopolitics experts to share his insights on the subjects.
Paterson also joined the Canada in Asia Conference as a panelist during his visit.
Paterson authored a series of essays for the Foundation that covers China’s role in critical minerals in Asia, its falling marginal propensity to import, its use of economic statecraft, its rising influence in Central Asia, the position of the renminbi in global trade, its overseas foreign direct investment strategy, capital flight from China, and other hot-button issues.
Catch up on some snaps from his four-day visit here:
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