China is betting the house on semiconductor design and advanced technologies but for the US the complexity of the strategic choices impacting the industry, as they relate to technological advance and to national security, is hard to understate
In the era of globalization, the outlook of US business does not mesh with the politics of national interest. Addicted to international trade, American companies are the willing partners of China's advance... but for how long ?
In 2019, a total production capacity of 137 million vehicles and sales expected to reach 92 million units, excess capacity of 47 million units leaves weaker manufacturers dangerously exposed
Hybrid motoring, electrification, new consumer expectations and new transportation solutions are raising the bar for brand identity of all the car makers. They are also going to conjure up the specter of commoditization
Confronted with unsatiable demand for milk, New Zealand's fragile ecosystem is front-running environmental risks exposing much larger economies worldwide, glad to supply in the short term, but at what cost ?
Ratcheting up milk supply, New Zealand is now coping with the environmental fallout. Too much of a good thing or, more probably, a warning shot the major global agriculture exporters would discount at their peril
The semi-conductor industry is at the nexus of the most critical issues overshadowing US-China relations, from the protection of intellectual property to fair competition to national security
Whoever controls the production of advanced Integrated Circuits commands the terms of trade between nations...With US and Asian semi-conductor majors protective of their Chinese market shares, it is for the US government to confront new reality
An improbable feat but the tight integration of its social network with mass entertainment has a reach which will keep the company in the sights of regulators and central authorities
While relatively – and unduly – ignored by the general public in the West, there are many reasons to pay attention to Tencent's dominating presence and interlocking platforms on China's Internet
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 sheer magnitude of the shift in China's economy – and its harrowing speed – are worth considering and the strategies of the country's agents of change are markers for the decades to come
VIEs, an acronym standing for Variable Interest Entity, take pride of place in the gallery of business regulations with Chinese characteristics
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
