To view the latest February 2023 insights from Noah Barkin of the EU-CHINA relationship please visit GMFUS here .
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For the latest on UK-China travel, flights, visas and entry requirements please review the British Chamber's latest travel advisory newsletter below:
UK-China Travel advisory news update 06 Feb 2023
With our sincere thanks to the team at the British Chamber of Commerce in China for kindly sharing this information.
In this event on February 7 at 11 a.m. EST, the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics and the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) present their latest Big Data China publication.
The feature provides an overview of the latest data-driven research evaluating the influence of the Chinese party-state on Chinese companies and their ability to maintain autonomy.
Trustee Chair Director Scott Kennedy will host the event, which will include an introduction by Professor Scott Rozelle of Stanford University. Professors Curtis Milhaupt of Stanford Law School and Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin of the City University of Hong Kong School of Law will discuss their research on the topic, followed by a discussion on the implications for U.S.-China relations and U.S. policy with distinguished panelists Barry Naughton of UC San Diego, Martin Chorzempa of the Peterson Institue for International Economics, and Trustee Chair Senior Fellow Ilaria Mazzocco.
This event is made possible by generous funding from Stanford University.
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Our sincere thanks to CSIS for sharing this information.
Despite global slowdown, Asia’s economies show resilience and growth for 2023 – according to the Asia House Annual Outlook
Asia House has launched its flagship report, the Asia House Annual Outlook 2023 and convened leading policy and business figures at its London headquarters to discuss the report's findings.
The Asia House Annual Outlook 2023 examines the economic prospects for Asia in 2023 and identifies that Asia can defy a global economic slowdown through an acceleration in digital transformation, greater regional coordination, and green finance. However, and mirroring the global outlook, Asia is susceptible to several geopolitical risks and shocks, such as energy-price volatility, geopolitical tensions, and higher borrowing costs.
Asia House assessed eight key economies across metrics conducive to meeting these challenges. Two indices analysed economic performance in the critical areas of green finance and digitalisation readiness:
View the Executive Summary Here
KEY POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
With our sincere thanks to Asia House for kindly sharing this important report.
Merics' survey of 880 China watchers suggests the country’s course is most unpredictable – except that it will continue to stand by Moscow and accept EU-China
relations fraying.
Unbridled power in the hands of Xi Jinping, underlying pressures economic and social, and unpredictable policies in any number of fields – the level of
uncertainty about China in the year ahead has never been higher than in this fourth edition of our MERICS China Forecast. MERICS solicited the views of 880
China experts and non-expert members of the public with an interest in the country. Their responses don’t make for optimistic reading.
Last year’s events in China at least still ranged from the surprising to the certain. In October, Xi secured his expected third term as general secretary and packed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Politburo with loyalists. But then in November, nationwide protests against draconian Covid-19 lockdowns caught the political establishment on the back foot. And it, in turn, in December surprised everyone by abruptly ending many of its zero-covid measures. At the start of 2023, the China watchers we surveyed consider the ongoing dynamics of Covid-19, the geopolitical environment and a looming global recession as the top three challenges the country in the (still almost) 12 months ahead. They are seen as additional risks to China’s economic and technological development, with the potential to put greater pressure on Chinese society. Given this, our respondents consider Covid-19 measures, economic stress and social inequality the most likely triggers of renewed public dissent. To access the MERICS 2023 FORECAST please click here.
Our sincere thanks to MERICS for sharing the Forecast.
Dear CBI Members and Partners,
For reports, interviews and insights into a country shaping the world please review China Dialogue directly here.
Download News Digest China Dialogue 06-12 Jan 2023
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Dear CBI Members and Partners,
Please find the December 2022 IP Newsletter below highlighting the latest news and IP developments in China.
Download China IP Newsletter December 2022
For more information kindly contact: leo.zhuang@fcdo.gov.uk
China Direct would like to thank the IP team for sharing this information.
As the curtains close on 2022, the three-year pandemic continues to cast a long shadow. Yet with China moving rapidly from containment to coexistence, the last major economy to do so, 2023 may be considered the first year in which the world decided to live with Covid.
China entered the pandemic in 2020 with swift state mobilization that locked down major hubs, built makeshift clinics, and erected a sprawling testing, tracking, and quarantine operation that achieved one of the lowest case counts in the world.
The country’s exit from Zero-Covid, however, is a study in rapid state demobilization, including the dismantling of much of the Covid apparatus that has been in place for three years. It’s a process that has unfolded with the same speed as the initial mobilization.
That stark contrast is plain for all to see.
During such topsy-turvy years, it is easy to fixate on the daily noise. Just like in 2020, when much of the attention was devoted to putting the pandemic under control, 2022 ends with our collective focus on how Beijing has willfully abandoned control of the exit.
The focus on daily cycles and headlines can amplify their actual significance and obscure subtler forces and trends that may end up much more consequential. That’s why in 2020, we reflected more broadly on what we considered “Overlooked” and “Overhyped”—factors and trends that will materially affect political and economic outcomes going forward.
With 2023 knocking on the door, it seems only appropriate to revisit how those 2020 trends held up and offer our 2022 edition of Overlooked & Overhyped.
To read the full summary please visit MacroPolo here.
Our sincere thanks to Damian Ma and the team at MacroPolo for very kindly sharing this analysis.
International arrivals to China will no longer face quarantine restrictions from 08 January 2023 onwards.
After nearly three years of isolation China's borders will finally open in early 2023.
For more details please refer to the Reuters article below.
China to scrap COVID quarantine rule for inbound travellers
I’m sure most of you are celebrating a much happier end to the year than its beginning was. It has been a tough and challenging year but as we celebrate Hong Kong opening up even more, a very Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice and any other festival that you are commemorating.
As the team here at DIT Hong Kong look forward and begin planning for 2023/2024, we will see the return of VIP visitors and trade missions from the UK, events and activities in Hong Kong with evermore international attendees and also businesses travelling to the UK to sign high-value investment deals. Do get in touch with us if you have any great ideas for the team to be involved in, our contact details are at the end of the newsletter. Also do follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for the latest updates.
It is though bittersweet for yours truly. We will shortly welcome the arrival of our new, permanent Director-General, Chris Woodward, whilst I return to my previous role as Director. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ‘stepping-up’ experience but look forward to Chris taking the reins and leading the team into a very positive future.
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