Osaka’s G20 summit was the setting of yet another display of Trump’s two-steps-backward-one-step-forward “Art of the Deal” tactics… After branding Huawei Technologies a risk to…
Posts published by “Nicolas Michelon”
Nicolas is a corporate geoeconomics and strategic & business intelligence expert with 25 years of experience in the Asia-Pacific region. He advises corporate executives on how to navigate the current geopolitical and geoeconomic environment, mitigate risk and develop prospective scenarios. He is also an Adjunct Professor & Guest Lecturer in geopolitics, geoeconomics and business intelligence at ESCP Business School (France), Galatasaray University (Türkiye), Ecole de Guerre Economique (Paris School of Economic Warfare) and the International University of Monaco.
From soft to sharp power… 80 years after Mao’s original formulation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s United Front Work is being…
Conférence donnée devant les membres du think tank Ambassadeurs de la Jeunesse, le 22 juin 2019 à Paris Picture credits: Ambassadeurs de la Jeunesse
Table-ronde organisée le 18 juin 2019 à l’Ecole de Guerre Economique, Paris Echanges très stimulants hier soir à l’Ecole de Guerre Economique, en compagnie de…
Been re-listening to a 2012 conference by Prof. John Mearsheimer, of University of Chicago, on why China cannot rise peacefully. Far from assigning a “good”…
Hong Kong strong… Unlike the 2014 Occupy movement, this time around most interest groups threw their weight behind the demonstrators, fearing Carrie Lam’s Extradition Bill…
Fiat-Chrysler has withdrawn its offer for a merger with Renault in the face of indecision from Renault’s public shareholder. After the inability to anticipate &…
Huawei Marine Networks’ involvement in setting and upgrading undersea cables is Washington’s next target… https://on.wsj.com/2F6n4Jc UPDATE (June 3, 2019): Jiangsu-based Hengtong Optic-Electric Co. Ltd has…
“There is an inherent and fundamental contradiction in the Trump administration’s China policy. On one hand, decoupling U.S. and Chinese technology supply chains may well…
1997-2019: a different kind of anniversary…
The 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China was again marked by the usual pro-democracy protests, but this year a new breed of protester…