China Healthcare - Telltales
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
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China - Finance with Attitude
Turning a blind eye on awkward arrangements, the U.S. and China had struck a delicate and self-serving balance in their financial dealings. With principled postures taking hold on both sides, global finance will be bracing for a grand unraveling
EU – Byelorussia – Going to Pot(ash)
Potash, the mineral resource and indispensable crop fertilizer,is Byelorussia's trump card in the global food chain. Overlooking the tragic fate ot migrants at the Polish and Lithuanian borders, a hard game is being played behind closed doors
China Education - Picking up the pieces
Education is a massive challenge in China . Private educational services have been seen as hardening social divides instead of engineering social progress, requiring a fundamental re-think of EdTech (educational technology) expertise
China - The rising tide of chronic diseases
Accounting for 80% of China’s 10.3 million annual deaths (2005 data), chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular or respiratory diseases, will become a growing burden on the population and cause severe economic loss
Master of the World
In Jules Verne's 1904 novel of this title, the heroic inventor is fated to meet indomitable force, a tragedy blooming on personal overreach and on very public rejection
Pacific Central - Sumo wrestling
Sumo, a highly regimented Japanese sport, is embedded with rituals of mutual respect while China and the US, poking around in the diplomatic rule book without much luck, only seem to know of Sumo's pushing and shoving in the Western Pacific
Not so Pacific Islands
The projection of Chinese power across the Pacific is a game-changer and a two-pronged strategy, asserting military power behind walls and letting trade flows trickle beyond, across the island archipelagos of the Pacific
Brazil, foodbasket to the world
Leader in soybean exports, the premier agricultural commodity, and well ahead of the U.S., Brazil agribusiness aims at making the most of the country's natural advantage by maitaining the land and water resources - a contradiction in terms ?
Prosus - Digital Giant of the Consumer Internet
With a strong presence around the world , from social networks to fintech and food delivery, Naspers' subsidiary Prosus is one of the least talked about majors of the digital age, sharing audacity and vision with Tencent, its Chinese partner
Prosus - a familiar newcomer
Prosus may be an unfamiliar entity in the selection of great companies stretching the globalized world, but the biggest underlying asset of the firm is not...