Corporate governance

Colombia is unprepared to handle the risks of Chinese tech investment

This article, co-authored with Daniel Poveda and Christian Heinze, is part of the report "Understanding China's Tech Footprint in Colombia",…

3 months ago

What foreign firms can and cannot do to prepare for China’s foreign-spy law

This article was originally published on July 4, 2023 on holch.biz. Thank you to the author for the kind authorization…

10 months ago

The price of East-West economic warfare: Carlos Ghosn and the fate of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance

One cannot think of a better cautionary tale for East-West leadership than the spectacular rise and public fall of Carlos…

10 months ago

Credit ratings in China: pushing a narrative built in wonderland

On May 12, one of China’s largest property developers, Sunac China Holdings, admitted that it had defaulted on a $750…

2 years ago

Foreign firms in China must move up, on or out

Recent developments between China and the world bring to mind a 1960s Buffalo Springfield song: “There’s something happening here—What it…

3 years ago

The US-Ecuador ODA agreement: a model in economic influence strategy?

The final days of the Trump administration were marked by a largely unnoticed announcement which could turn out to be…

3 years ago

The future of EU – China investment cooperation

It is not that Europe and the US were unaware of China’s development throughout the 20th century. Waking up in…

3 years ago

The future of Abenomics in a post-Shinzo Abe Japan

Asia Power Watch contributor and Istanbul's Boğaziçi University researcher Semiha Karaoğlu was interviewed on September 3, 2020, by Dr Altay…

4 years ago

The key to China’s economic competitiveness is not 5G

Held two months late, and under the specter of an uncertain global future, the annual meetings of the People’s Political…

4 years ago

Corporate appointments in SOEs: the three circles of China’s economic strategy

The most distinctive aspect of China’s “socialist market economy” is that it relies on a precisely set and regularly reviewed…

4 years ago