"China's push into global standards-setting has gone largely unnoticed. That's partly because it's boring. But it's also partly by design. Billions of dollars in equipment sales and patent royalties are up for grabs in this competition." My latest for @bv
https://t.co/rQWMdBsOuL
"India’s foreign minister did NOT express support for Belt and Road in the communique released after foreign ministers of the China and Russia-led [SCO] met in Beijing."
All other foreign ministers “reaffirmed support for China’s Belt and Road proposal.”
https://t.co/IqzKkgOtfg
Chinese property developer Kam Fung may buy Spanish meat producer Incarlopsa. Combining bricks and ham offers no clear benefits -but Beijing isn't guiding against food investing, and the Trump era forces a change of deal direction. https://t.co/7CCSb3XmXX @LJucca
Beijing is investigating the state-run asset manager Huarong’s chair for graft that complicates its support for CEFC’s acquisition of a stake in Rosneft. Yet given these are de facto state players, the deal should still survive. https://t.co/PfU7SAwjzG @gfhay @ClaraMarquesRTR
China’s DJI is performing some impressive fundraising stunts. Investors who want to buy equity at a $15 billion valuation will have to provide an accompanying interest-free, three-year loan. Read @mak_robyn's view on what this means for the drone company https://t.co/fP8inyreuL
"China will accelerate financial opening not because the Americans are demanding it, but because Chinese banks are now too dominant domestically for foreign institutions to genuinely compete. If it helps to diffuse a trade war, then all the better." https://t.co/iTao77K0wT
How is #Europe responding to the Belt and Road challenge? Can it contribute to a free and open #IndoPacific? I write for @gmfus https://t.co/eapdXai22w
If the U.S. does not match Chinese activity globally, a growing number of developing nations will regulate their economies, media, and civil society on Beijing’s terms
https://t.co/gGaE6RGfue