Muhammad Asif Noor
Muhammad Asif Noor is the Founder of the Friends of BRI Forum and Advisor to Pakistan Research Center, Hebei Normal University, China & Co-Founder, Alliance of China-Pakistan Research Centres. He is also Secretary General of the Pakistan-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Friendship Forum.
By Muhammad Asif Noor For China, history often moves with a sense of continuity and direction. The adoption of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) at the fourth session of the 14th National People’s Congress, on March 12, 2026, marks the beginning of a…
By Muhammad Asif Noor There is something worth sitting with in the fact that the United States Trade Representative’s 2026 Trade Policy Agenda, released just days ago, lists managing trade with China for “reciprocity and balance” as one of its six central priorities. …
By Muhammad Asif Noor As China convenes its annual “Two Sessions”, the meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, both happening on March 4 and 5th, global attention once again turns to Beijing. These sessions are essential…
By Muhammad Asif Noor As 2026 unfolds, the United States economy is entering a phase marked less by cyclical recovery and more by structural and policy-induced adjustment. Under President Donald Trump’s renewed economic agenda, tariffs, extended tax measures, and tighter immigration controls are…
By Muhammad Asif Noor At a moment when the global economy faces sustained uncertainty, China’s Central Economic Work Conference held in Beijing from December 9 to 11, 2025, offered something increasingly rare in international economic governance: strategic steadiness anchored in long-term vision. While…
By Muhammad Asif Noor As the world wrestles with rising protectionism, shrinking trade corridors, and technological nationalism, China’s mega market is emerging as both an economic anchor and an engine of shared innovation for shared technological progress. The recently concluded Eighth China International…
By Muhammad Asif Noor Beijing’s Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) marks another defining moment in the evolution of Chinese governance and global engagement. Concluded on October 23, 2025, the session adopted the recommendations for…
By Muhammad Asif Noor The financial unease that rippled through Wall Street last week has begun to settle, but the aftershocks are still being felt across Europe and the USA. What started as a spate of bad-loan disclosures at a handful of U.S.…