Jason Bedford
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian InstituteJason Bedford is a visiting senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute. His recent research has focused on rare earth supply chains and the missing nuance behind why they confer such deep geopolitical leverage for China. A Mandarin speaker with two decades of fieldwork across China’s financial and industrial landscape, Bedford previously led China macro-financial research at Bridgewater Associates and spent six years at UBS covering Chinese banks and non-bank lenders. He began his career in Beijing with KPMG, where he worked on mining-sector due diligence and project evaluations alongside audits of mainland financial institutions.
Articles by Jason Bedford
Economy
The RMB’s offshore revival is real — so are its limits
The RMB has become more useful for trade, treasury management and selected funding transactions within China’s commercial orbit, but this does not mean that it has become a currency that central banks or global investors choose to hold at scale, observes EAI visiting senior research fellow Jason Bedford.
Jason Bedford
01 Oct 2026