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As Pandas Thrive, Is Panda Diplomacy Dying Out?

28/02/2025 No Comments

Since 1949, the establishment of the PRC (People’s Republic of China), giant pandas have been “employed” as ambassadors to showcase the goodwill of the Chinese …

Did China’s Yu Renrong Upset Beijing Officials?

24/02/2025 No Comments

The last decade has seen a semiconductor race develop. There is heightened global competition between ...

Is Jack Ma the CCP’s Elon Musk?

24/02/2025 No Comments

Could Xi Jinping’s recent meeting with Jack Ma be a strategic move to better prepare ...

How Cities like Tianjin are Enticing Foreign investment into China

29/01/2025 No Comments

China’s many cities have increased their investor proposition in recent years. While major metropolises like ...

South Korea: The solution to this year’s emerging market problems?

January 12, 2022

Given all the problems emerging market traders are facing this year, it would hardly be surprising if many saw "the South Korea cheat" as the solution.

Asia Digital Assets

Why is Binance banned in Singapore?

December 30, 2021

Earlier in December we heard the news that Binance had withdrawn its application to obtain a cryptoexchange licence in Singapore. This followed frequent clashes with the regulator in Singapore, which in September prompted Binance to ban its users in the country from trading on its global platform.

Asia Business

Tokyo: A Global Financial City

November 17, 2021

Tokyo is often forgotten about as one of the world’s major economic hubs. This is something the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is looking to fix.

Asia

Party cadres, and socialism with Chinese characteristics

November 2, 2021

This idea – of party appointees planted throughout China’s businesses and private sector – has its roots in the Opium Wars and colonial domination. Looking back at the Century of Humiliation, political theorists and Chinese leaders tried to work out how best to ensure this could never happen again.

Asia Sustainability ESG Technology

Guangzhou: The Beating Heart of China’s Electric Vehicles Push

October 20, 2021

The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.

Asia Banking

Empowering Finance with the Agricultural Bank of China

October 15, 2021

China’s ‘Big Four’ banks include the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China. Together they have a reported combined asset value of $17.321 trillion.

Asia Banking

Customers, Regulation and China with Standard Chartered

October 14, 2021

Standard Chartered or StanChart is not a bank that is shy about it’s aspirations when it comes to China. Many of the speakers at this year’s Sibos have talked about China as well. Apart from CBDCs, digital transformation and the generous plethora of leaders involved in this years’ event, the Regulator and the Customer were also talking points.

Asia

The Unpredictability of Beijing

October 14, 2021

The opening months of MSCI’s new China indexes should serve as a warning. The CCP works in unpredictable ways, and sometimes in a manner that is deliberately economically damaging. For this reason, returns in China can never be taken for granted.

Asia Fintech

Two Currencies One Nation with Invest Hong Kong

October 13, 2021

“There’s a very strong regulatory framework, one that is attracting businesses from around the world to do listings or secondary listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.” Andrew shares.

Asia Capital Markets

Evergrande – Too Big To Ignore?

September 27, 2021

he Real Estate industry accounts for more than 15% of China’s economy. 62-year old Hui Ka-yan owns 76 percent of Evergrande, China’s second largest property developer by sales. However, with the South China Morning Post reporting liabilities of more than $305 billion, Hui’s investment might be too big to ignore.

Asia

Taliban takeover means Afghanistan risks becoming cradle for global terrorism

September 16, 2021

Lack of technocratic expertise, with most educated people having fled, will make it hard to ensure the economy runs well enough to allow the Taliban to cement support in the regions. Billions of dollars of funding have been lost from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the US, and the European Union, and the central bank reserves held in the US have been frozen.

Asia Sustainability ESG

What is changing the Japanese approach to ESG?

August 4, 2021

Economic stagnancy has also reduced the ability (or desire) of companies to invest in green alternatives. Japanese companies have long been wary of investing and prefer to sit on piles of cash, reducing both innovation and the amount of investment that is pumped into green transformation.

Asia News

China equities: Beyond the recovery

June 25, 2021

The recent correction in Chinese equity markets highlighted the uncertainties of the global pandemic recovery. But amid the ongoing transformation of the world’s second-largest economy, we see a long-term story that should support investment opportunities.

Asia

Is Tesla facing its DeLorean Moment in China?

May 12, 2021

Alec Baldwin, the famous actor, told Top Gear how “He’s [John DeLorean] like Musk and other people who want to form their own company, and do something bold.”

Asia Investment Banking

How much disruption will Bill Hwang’s Archegos cause Nomura and Credit Suisse?

March 29, 2021

Baidu, Tencent and Vipshop were some of the Chinese stocks hardest hit, dropping 18%, 33% and 31% respectively last week according to CNN. How much of those drops was down to the Archegos disruption is hard to quantify, but it certainly didn’t help.

Asia Banking Capital Markets

Why is the Bank of Japan changing its approach to QE?

March 29, 2021

The Bank of Japan struggled more than other central banks to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic because it had already introduced years of stimulus measures in an unsuccessful attempt to encourage price growth.

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