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China will need to reevaluate its current ideas of international politics as the simple sum of markets

China is amused by the apparent resurgence of nationalism in Europe.  It’s not complaining, it uses the…

Australia Elections: China is Life or Ballast?

The upcoming legislative elections in Australia—expected September 7th—view China as one of the principle areas of contention…

Consolidation of China’s Fragmented Industrial Sectors – about time but challenging

Unlike industries controlled by a few giants such as oil, railway, utilities and telecommunication, the industrial sectors…

CHINESE PARTY LEGITIMACY and NATIONAL PRIDE: dancing between control and silence. A comment.

Talking about Nationalism, Occidentals obviously use a term that is strictly connected with their culture, just because…

The succession issue in China: can the first-generation rely on the second-generation?

According to data from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, more than 3 million private businesses will encounter…

Is China the cure for ailing pharmaceutical innovation in the west? Part I of III

The phrase “big pharma” conjures a litany of responses; from visceral to analytical, opinions regarding the pharmaceutical industry’s reputation…

China's Emerging West

I. BACKGROUND – In my third book released at the beginning of 2011, I predicted that…

Credit Rating Agencies: Culprits or Scapegoats? On Competition in the Industry

Throughout history, no single professional financial-market participant has been blamed with such concentrated intensity and pervasiveness as…

China: the pharmaceutical industry, light and dark in a key sector

It’s not only the power of statistics to drive the pharmaceutical industry toward China.  The most populous…

Whom Are We Going With?

By 30 November Australia will have a new parliament. Before then, however, her citizens will have to…