Contents

Signing of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

-The China Moment by Peter Koenig

-Complementarity between Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the Belt and Road Initiative and Internationalisation of RMB by Herbert Poenisch

US Election

-Division or Dialogue with China by Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng

-Biden, and Global Trade Architecture by Chul Chung

China

-10 Reasons Why Renminbi will Keep on Rising by David Marsh

-Shedding Light on China’s Capital Inflows by Herbert Poenisch

-Financial Development, Technological Innovation and Consumption-led Growth by Agustin Carstens

Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation

-Maintaining Sound Money Amid and After the Pandemic by Agustin Carstens

-PBoC Looks to the Future by Geoffrey Yu

-PBoC Reiterates Intent to Deepen Market Reforms by Chen Jia

-Financial Stability Implications of the Pandemic by Ignazio Visco

Digital Economy

-CBDCs Mean Evolution, Not Revolution by Benoît Cœuré

-Making CBDCs a True and Trusted Currency by Wolfram Seidemann

-Crypto Crawls from the Crypt by Philip Middleton

-China’s Winning CBDC Approach by Gary Smith

-Monetary Thinking and Regulatory Tinkering by Ryan Peterson

Sustainable Development

-The Sino-American Race to Zero by Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng

-Climate Risk Analysis Tools are Public Goods by Ma Jun

Working Paper

-Does Regional Currency Matter for Regional Trade Integration? — The Implication for RMB by He Qing, Zhang Ce and Zhu Wenyu

-Monetary Policy, Financial Development and the Financing of Zombie Firms: Evidence from China by Lu Liping, Li Xiaoyang and Qian Zongxin

International Monetary Review, January 2021, Vol.8 No.1