Stephen Roach
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
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- Oct 2, 2026
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- Jul 25, 2026
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Trump's vanity summit with Xi (opens the original)
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Long on ceremony but short on substance, the eagerly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a disappointment. Perhaps not a major disappointment, as expectations were generally low, and as some talk is certainly better than no talk. But on the major issues of trade, AI, Taiwan, and addressing China’s role in two theaters of war, there was little or no progress. Instead, ceremonial flourishes substituted for substance, unmasking the summit as yet
Don't mess with markets (opens the original)
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Intervening in financial markets is a fool’s game. And yet many seem incapable of internalizing that lesson. So it is with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as he seeks to manipulate currency and bond markets. Bessent has the most consequential markets in his crosshairs. In targeting the foreign-exchange market, he is going after the world’s largest and most liquid financial market; according to the Bank for International Settlements’ latest triennial survey, over-the-counter foreign-exchange
Yes, the Hong Kong of old is over (opens the original)
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Hong Kong deserves credit for putting up a fight. In the nearly two and a half years since I expressed the apparently controversial opinion that Hong Kong is “over,” the city’s boosters have orchestrated a determined campaign to prove otherwise. At first glance, this heroic defense seems to have some merit. Hong Kong’s economy has been relatively resilient, and a resurgence of the Hang Seng Index has erased memories of the 2018–20 collapse stemming from political turmoil. Moreover, the city has
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