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  • China’s opening: more access, not more freedom

    28 October 2025

    China’s capital controls, its restrictions on cross-border movements of money and investment, are a safeguard against financial instability; but they also constrain the country’s ability to turn the renminbi into a fully international currency, limiting its potential geopolitical clout Over the past decades, China has slowly increased outside access to its capital markets and deepened financial development, while still maintaining control; this gradual liberalisation has broadened participation, but has yet to make China’s markets truly open Investors, for their part,

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