As of the let’s say very early Deng Xiaoping days, China found itself in a bit of a predicament when it came to the foreign capital inflow variable. More specifically, Deng understood all too well that China (desperately) needed Western capital but for a wide range of reasons (most of which political, of course), this
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(Coronavirus) Pandemics in China… and Elsewhere
In light of how much exposure the topic has received and in light of the fact that the effects of a pandemic (from the far more systemically serious coronavirus/covid-19 to the less problematic bird flu or anything else) most definitely go well beyond the medical dimension (with the economic one also being in the spotlight),
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Putting the “B” in BRICS: China and Brazil
Brazil-China relations can be tracked all the way back to 1812 but ended up being frozen in 1949, once the People’s Republic of China was created, as was the case with other nations as well. However, approximately a quarter of a century later, they were re-established, with Brazil opening an embassy in Beijing and China
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China and South Africa: A Strategic Comprehensive Partnership
It is about time to give a fair bit of attention to the economic and geopolitical relations between China and South Africa. After all, we have covered the China – BRICS dimension through a dedicated article on the one hand and on the other hand, we have also analyzed the relationship between China and two
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China’s Music Industry: Numbers. Constraints. Potential.
This much is certain: a music industry worth north of $50 billion in 2019 ($53 billion or 370 billion yuan, to be more precise) and with a YOY growth rate representing a considerably above-average 8% needs to be taken seriously. Needless to say, the Chinese authorities tend to agree and as such, have prioritized investments
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China and Australia: From Double-Digit Two-Way Trade Growth to Geopolitical Tensions
It would be a severe understatement to call Sino-Australian relations confusing because the more a casual observer researches, the more he or she tends to be bombarded with downright contradictory signals. In no particular order, here are just a few examples of information that seems to point toward one clear direction when taken in isolation
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China’s Relationship with the United Kingdom from a Potential Post-Brexit Bilateral Trade Deal Perspective
Formally speaking, the Brexit has indeed taken place, a Brexit debacle that generated immense market-wide frustration in light of the (many!) failed negotiation attempts and quasi-ubiquitous lack of clarity when it comes to pretty much any imaginable topic. From reaching pragmatic agreements with the European Union to perhaps another Brexit vote, scenarios abounded to such
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Is China Antifragile?
In light of how often the adversarial relationships between either China and the United States or China and the proverbial West are discussed, one might assume that China always stands to gain after negative developments in the United States and/or in the West. Antifragility is a term popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (and which constitutes
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China and the Gig Economy: Economic Growth 2.0 or Ideological Incongruence?
A lot of observers make the mistake of assuming that the gig economy is an exclusively Western trend in light of the fact that it seems to align so well with Western values. It is decentralized rather than centralized, it encourages freelancers to compete with one another within whichever platform they are using, it is
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Culture Wars in 2020 and Beyond: Is a China – West Cultural War Unfolding?
The average investor who is interested in being up to date on “all things China” so as to make better choices tends to spend asymmetrically more time crunching economic numbers compared to endeavors that, in our view, would enable him or her to meaningfully “get” China from more than one angle. As such, their perspective