Lawyer and China veteran Mark Schaub looks at how foreign firms have been sourcing in China over the past 20 years, and how supply chain challenges developed, at the latest webinar of his law firm KWM. “The real market is now the domestic market,” he says.Read More →
China is drawing its future, including becoming the world’s largest economy by 2035. China watcher and CFR-scholar Ian Johnson looks at the CFR website at the decisions taken at the November 2021 Plenum of the Communist Party, as the country prepares for its party conference in 2022 with a new 5-year plan.Read More →
The arrest of HNA founder and group chairman Chen Feng, and CEO Tan Xiangdong, last week was yet another signal indicating a major change in China’s economic relations, based on guanxi or old-style relations between power brokers, says political analyst Victor Shih to Bloomberg.Read More →
The fall down of Evergrande, China’s second largest real estate giant, has rattled global investors. Strategic analyst Sara Hsu expects its fallout will be huge in China, but its effect outside China is only marginal, she tells at NBC.Read More →
Debts hanging over China are far more structural and the possible demise of property giant Evergrande is only a symptom of a much larger problem, says fintech expert Sara Hsu according to the Market Research TelecastRead More →
China’s booming tech sector was mainly funded by private and sometimes overseas investors. Those days might be over as the state takes over that funding, with ride-hailing company Didi as a prime example, says business analyst Shaun Rein in Pymnts.Read More →
Former New York Times correspondent Howard French, author of China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, discusses at the International Peace Institute how now two million Chinese immigrants and 2,500 Chinese companies build up an over US$200 billion trade between China and Africa.Read More →
China did not comply with the conditions it signed up for when it entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), says former White House advisor Harry Broadman at the NACD Northern California Chapter in a discussion about American business in China. And while US president Joe Biden has taken on China bilaterally, it needs collective action to change the country’s attitude to trade, he adds.Read More →
The G7 planned during its certain meeting an alternative for China’s Belt&Road Initiative, to halt the country’s international leverage, the Build Back Better World (B3W). But former White House advisor Harry Broadman has serious doubts whether the new plan will be effective at all, he tells according to the GTReview.Read More →
China’s consumption is growing again and sales growth is recovering on a solid post-COVID10 track, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok on her vlog. Government, tech companies, and consumers have their noses in the same direction.Read More →
Decision-makers in China’s consumption are increasingly singles, with women becoming another major force to take into account, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok at the state-owned broadcaster CGTN. Mostly women decide on the purchase of a house, at the end of 2021 likely to be 82% of the deciding purchasers.Read More →
Traditionally conservative sovereign wealth funds are a wrongfully ignored player at developing the digital economy, says financial analyst Winston Ma, author of The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace, at the Investment Magazine.Read More →