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Continue reading →: Welcome to the Financial Silk RoadThis website updates and deepens our understanding of China’s international finance. These days, China’s economic expansion is at the heart of international political and economic debates. However, knowledge of how international finance works in general, and particularly the part involving China, is still limited. The goal is to expand this…
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Continue reading →: Some news 17-23 June 2025On June 18, at Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai, China’s central bank governor Pan Gongsheng unveiled eight major measures to further open China’s financial sector and bolster Shanghai as a global financial hub. The eight measures include:– Establish an interbank market transaction repository– Set up a digital yuan international operation centre– Introduce…
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Continue reading →: Bits of History #3The role of Luxembourg in China’s early opening – In November 1972, few months after the historic meeting between President Nixon and President Mao (21-28 February), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Only a few years later, in September 1979, Grand Duke…
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Continue reading →: Some News 9-16 June 2025
Brazil plans to issue a yuan-denominated bond to strengthen ties with China, while also eyeing euro and dollar debt. President Lula is pushing to boost global trade links but faces domestic pressure from high inflation and mounting debt ahead of next year’s elections. On Monday 16 June 2025, the Hong Kong…
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Continue reading →: Bits of History #2
How it all begun – On February 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon met with President Mao Zedong in Beijing, staying in China until February 28. Nixon himself described the trip as “the week that changed the world.” On February 27, the two countries issued a joint statement known as the…
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Continue reading →: The intimate relationship between banks and the Silk RoadBanking has always maintained a close relationship with commerce in general, and with trade along the Silk Road in particular. Economic historians largely agree that modern European banking was born in the two famous maritime republics of Venice and Genoa during the 12th century. The original purpose of these banks…
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Continue reading →: Bits of History #1
The return of China – Relations between China and the West underwent a radical shift starting in 1971, when the United States adopted a new strategy toward Beijing – a policy that began taking shape after Richard Nixon’s inauguration in January 1969. From the outset, Nixon’s Asia strategy aimed at…
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Continue reading →: Why the Silk Road?Silk Road is a widely used term to describe both historical and contemporary events related to the encounter between China and the West, particularly between China and Europe. However, it remains a vague term, especially because it refers to a phenomenon that is vast in both spatial and temporal dimensions.…
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