Andre Wheeler trade specialist Australia https://asiapowerwatch.com/author/andre-wheeler/ an observatory of Asian economic power Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:53:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://asiapowerwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-logo-Asie-1-32x32.jpg Andre Wheeler trade specialist Australia https://asiapowerwatch.com/author/andre-wheeler/ 32 32 China’s Logink platform as an economic weapon? https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:45:40 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=3284 In 2007, China began implementing the strategy encapsulating the new world reality that “data is the new oil“. Through the control of data and information,…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon/feed/ 0 The economic rationale for China’s pivot to Vietnam https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-economic-rationale-for-chinas-pivot-to-vietnam/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-economic-rationale-for-chinas-pivot-to-vietnam https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-economic-rationale-for-chinas-pivot-to-vietnam/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:12:47 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2996 There has been a lot of media coverage around the recent escalation of high-level negotiations underway between China and Vietnam. Several agreements and MOU’s have…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-economic-rationale-for-chinas-pivot-to-vietnam/feed/ 0 China’s LOGINK digital platform: a weapon to bring about a new economic hegemon through data control, ownership, and manipulation? https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:47:26 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2939 Since the article published on this website in 2021, on China’s drive towards creating a global smart supply chain integration system by way of its…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation/feed/ 0 The new paradigm of strategic economic coercion: do sanctions work? https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-new-paradigm-of-strategic-economic-coercion-do-sanctions-work/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-paradigm-of-strategic-economic-coercion-do-sanctions-work https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-new-paradigm-of-strategic-economic-coercion-do-sanctions-work/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:49:34 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2701 As the world economy undergoes tremendous upheaval and transition, trade has reached a critical inflection point. The new emerging paradigm emerging is a shift from…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-new-paradigm-of-strategic-economic-coercion-do-sanctions-work/feed/ 0 China’s leadership at an inflection point: what does it mean for business? https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-leadership-at-an-inflection-point-what-does-it-mean-for-business/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-leadership-at-an-inflection-point-what-does-it-mean-for-business https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-leadership-at-an-inflection-point-what-does-it-mean-for-business/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:35:39 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2630 With much of the world’s attention being focussed on the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, not much is being said about…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-leadership-at-an-inflection-point-what-does-it-mean-for-business/feed/ 0 Global smart supply chain integration: is a trap being laid with the Logink platform? https://asiapowerwatch.com/global-smart-supply-chain-integration-is-a-trap-being-laid-with-the-logink-platform/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-smart-supply-chain-integration-is-a-trap-being-laid-with-the-logink-platform https://asiapowerwatch.com/global-smart-supply-chain-integration-is-a-trap-being-laid-with-the-logink-platform/#respond Thu, 26 Aug 2021 06:23:52 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2075 With the increasing development of smart supply chains and logistics and the desire to take these to a global standard, those managing the process need…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/global-smart-supply-chain-integration-is-a-trap-being-laid-with-the-logink-platform/feed/ 0 Is military conflict over Taiwan inevitable or is China masking its true economic agenda? https://asiapowerwatch.com/is-military-conflict-over-taiwan-inevitable-or-is-china-masking-its-true-economic-agenda/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-military-conflict-over-taiwan-inevitable-or-is-china-masking-its-true-economic-agenda https://asiapowerwatch.com/is-military-conflict-over-taiwan-inevitable-or-is-china-masking-its-true-economic-agenda/#respond Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:42:28 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2064 With much focus on the developments in the increasingly strategic geo-political Indo-Pacific region, current analysis in the West has shifted to the potential for military…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/is-military-conflict-over-taiwan-inevitable-or-is-china-masking-its-true-economic-agenda/feed/ 0 Will future trade with China require digital integration with its Belt & Road Initiative? https://asiapowerwatch.com/will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative https://asiapowerwatch.com/will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative/#respond Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:45:36 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2043 With all the talk of supply chain dependency on China needing to “decouple” because of supply issues being exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, very little…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative/feed/ 0 What does digital integration mean for trade, logistics and supply chains with China? https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:20:30 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=1664 This article is a summary of a chapter that this author contributed in the recently-published “The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china/feed/ 2 From the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific: what is the economic significance for China? https://asiapowerwatch.com/from-the-asia-pacific-to-the-indo-pacific-what-is-the-economic-significance-for-china/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-the-asia-pacific-to-the-indo-pacific-what-is-the-economic-significance-for-china https://asiapowerwatch.com/from-the-asia-pacific-to-the-indo-pacific-what-is-the-economic-significance-for-china/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:08:47 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=1297 Labels are important identifiers that assure that the recipient gets what has been asked or paid for. After all, if the label on the jar…

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