Claude MEYER
Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies
Research Interests:
- Economic and strategic relations between China and Japan
- China’s technological catching-up
- China’s financial expansion and future role of the yuan
- China’s soft power
- Intellectual life and religions in China
Claude Meyer has pursued a dual career as an international banker and an academic specialized in Asian economies, successively at the EHESS, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (EHESS, Paris) and degrees in Philosophy and Sociology (both from the Sorbonne) and Japanese Studies (National Institute of Oriental Studies, Paris).
Curently a Senior Advisor at Ifri's Center for Asian Studies, he teaches International Economics at PSIA-Sciences Po and has also lectured at universities and think-tanks in the US, China, Japan and Korea. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. He has published extensively on China and Japan, in particular: L’Occident face à la renaissance de la Chine - Défis économiques, géopolitiques et culturels, Odile Jacob, 2018 ; La Chine, banquier du monde, Fayard, 2014 (nominated for the 2015 Turgot Prize in Financial Economics) ; Chine ou Japon, quel leader pour l’Asie ? Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2010. This book, translated in English, Chinese and Japanese, was nominated for the 2012 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the American Association for Asian Studies ; La puissance financière du Japon, Paris, Economica, 1996.
Dongfeng's acquisition of a stake in PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Fosun's purchase of Portugal's leading insurance company, Lenovo's acquisition of Motorola and IBM's low-end server business - 2014 has gotten off to a spectacular start for Chinese investors. Their appetite for...
À rebours de la stratégie européenne d'austérité et de réduction des déficits, Tokyo a fait le choix de la relance et de l'investissement pour redresser une économie mise à mal depuis vingt ans.
Ressources naturelles, entreprises industrielles, filières technologiques : rien ne semble échapper à la boulimie d’acquisitions qui projette le dragon chinois aux quatre coins de la planète. Premier créancier des États-Unis, la Chine finance les déficits occidentaux, mais s’impose aussi...
What will be the consequences of the triple earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan? Before the tragedy, Japan had already been laboring under the burden of an economic slowdown for the past two decades, along with an ineluctable demographic decline and loss...
Supposedly bogged down by a drawn-out crisis, Japan currently produces as much as China.
Après les jeux olympiques de Pékin en 2008, l’exposition « Shanghai 2010 » consacre l’affirmation de la Chine sur la scène internationale. Croissance économique, harmonie sociale, leadership régional et puissance mondiale sont les quatre impératifs de la politique...
The decline of the Marxist utopia and the collapse of traditional ethics have created a moral and spiritual vacuum, forging a path for religions, notes Asia specialist Claude Meyer.
All the European stock exchanges declined on Monday, as concerned investors looked with pessimism at China’s slowing growth. Paris lost 5.35 %. Claude Meyer discusses what consequences can be expected.
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Claude Meyer answers Jean-Baptiste Boursier’s questions in “le Grand Angle” on BFMTV.
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Five days after Tianjin’s impressive explosions, Toyota announced a three-day stop in the production of its city’s sites. The Japanese company is...
China’s ambition is to become a great financial power. But the necessary reform of its financial system and its will to act progressively could mean that it will be a long time before its exchange rate system is liberalized. Can the Yuan realistically become an...
Is the sudden devaluation of the Yuan a sign of some form of panic from Beijing following the slowed growth of the Chinese economy?
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In this interview, Claude Meyer underlines the three major vulnerabilities of the Chinese economy, and describes the investments China has made since the early 2000’s to address them.
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Le renforcement de l'alliance stratégique entre les États-Unis et le Japon, face à l'émergence économique de la Chine, a été décrypté par Claude Meyer, conseiller centre Asie de l’Ifri, enseignant à Sciences Po, auteur de "La Chine, banquier du monde" (Éd. Fayard), et "Chine ou Japon quel...
Lancées début 2013 pour tirer l’Archipel de la déflation, les « Abenomics » sont d’ambitieux programme de relance du premier ministre, Shinzo Abe.
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