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Mobile payments have become a defining feature of Chinese society and the two Internet majors, Aibaba and Tencent, dominate digital consumer transactions at the expense of traditional banking. The Chinese Central Bank is seeking a way out...
Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, and Tencent, the videogame behemoth, are seeking ways to extend their strong presence in markets roiled by fickle consumer expectations and under competitive pressure. Profits will suffer...
Optimism is pervading South-East Asian economics but the geopolical balance between competing powers, abutting the region on its periphery, remains vulnerable to gross miscalculation. Shared interests do not necessarily guarantee the outcome
In building the infrastructure of commerce for the future, in the words of Mr Ma of Alibaba, e-commerce is only the first step. As global titans tighten their grip, the countries of South East Asia must preserve their national identities
For all the talk about a car titan, the merger between Peugeot and Fiat-Chrysler faces complex trade-offs in industrial reorganization, in brand building and in research on electrification...It is best not to oversell promises on the deal
Within 12 months of Mr. Ghosn's arrest in Japan, the underpinnings of the Alliance between Renault and Nissan are giving way and the two companies are still searching for a game plan to side-step political interference by both countries
The powerful draw of Russia's energy policy needs to be viewed with clear-eyed realism and a sense of its ambiguity. Interests of the Russian gas supplier and of its European clients converge - American security concerns must be placed in broader context
Through the ages, domination of the Eurasian hearland has been Russia's primary purpose to guarantee its security but provision of sustenance and security control of the vast territory proved costly. Economic benefits remain elusive...
Eurasia is again a geopolitical reality with the Chinese communication infrastructure on a continental scale and the powerful draw of energy riches, but populous, fragile and deeply divided Central Asia is exposed to overreach by mighty land powers
Demography is an incontrovertible force, driving the underpinnings of Italy's aging society to breaking point. The creeping danger of a numerical decline of the workforce has become a brutal reality bearing down alarmingly on labor productivity
Italians, conflicted – likable and engaging and torn between hopes of yesteryear and today’s reality – tread a narrow path between a make-believe tantrum, irreversible commitments in the name of uncertain policies and actual structural reform
Healthcare demand in China is an overwhelming challenge - stretched to the limit by the expectations of a newly empowered middle class and pressured by desperate, impoverished and indebted families
Already the largest drugs market after the US, with an aging population, more demanding patients and more combative families, China remains a tumultuous market place
Correlated with tremendous GDP growth since 2000, China’s official foreign lending has transformed the Chinese government in the world’s largest official creditor, even though the loans to some of the poorest countries are 'hidden'
FinTech has opened a window of opportunities in a mostly dormant financial market and this report argues that the early stages of this financial revolution, fairly substantial in urban China, are only part of the story
The rise of Asia represents the beginnings of a shift in the balance of economic power in the world and some erosion in the political dominance of the West. Although massive, the poverty reduction could have been much greater but for the rising inequality
The islands in the Indian Ocean bearing the name are indeed 'scattered' around Madagascar, mainly in the Mozambique Channel. Formally under French sovereignty, their tiny size belies their growing strategic importance for the world's most powerful players
Mayotte, a French Département in the Comoros archipelago, is overpopulated, underemployed, and poorly educated - a potential target of unvarnished Chinese and Russian ambitions, and a basket case for a medium-sized ex-colonial power
