D. Acemoğlu, S. Johnson und J. Robinson erhielten 2024 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für ihre Forschung zu den Auswirkungen von Institutionen auf den Wohlstand von Nationen. Sie erweiterten die klassische Wirtschaftstheorie um die institutionelle und politökonomische...

China's state-centric data governance regime has evolved into a framework characterized by the pursuit of a dual goal to bolster both economic growth and national security at the expense of personal information protection, which is significantly compromised due to the government's mostly...

This is the third and final paper in a three-part series exploring the decision-making process in China. Presenting reform as a holistic system consisting of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological subsystems, President Xi Jinping introduced a top-level design as the theoretical...

This paper reviews the strategies and plans, policy-making institutions, process and problems in China's techno-industrial development. Although it has made noticeable progress in some areas in the past two decades, China still lags behind in most core technology and advanced manufacturing...

China is striving to become a leader in international standard setting, and the Digital Silk Road, part of China's Belt and Road Initiative to expand its global infrastructure and markets, is key to realizing this goal. Both roads depend on standard connectivity, fuelled by Chinese private...

This paper examines the shifting global power dynamics driven by the rise of China and the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). Taken together, a rising tide of high-tech weapons development and a return to great power rivalry are setting the conditions for a tectonic shift in the...