From the NBA to Winnie the Pooh, China isn’t acting like a confident nation

Mark L. Clifford was executive director of the Asia Business Council from 2007 to 2021. He is the author of "The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency". Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Standard, and Asia regional editor for BusinessWeek. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, was a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University and holds a PhD in history from the University of Hong Kong. www.markclifford.org