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  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s business crackdown threatens growth and innovation

    The ferocity of the action taken by Beijing against private companies has shocked observers at home and abroad

  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Breaking contracts over coronavirus is harder than it sounds

    The rules around force majeure are murky and complicated by government actions

  • Sunday, 27 October, 2019
    Hong Kong politics
    Hong Kong is irreplaceable as the region’s financial centre      

    It is politically impossible for any other city to set up an independent judiciary  

  • Monday, 5 February, 2018
    UK politics & policy
    Headline numbers rarely add up in China trade deals

    Securing non-binding agreements is one thing. Actually doing business quite another

  • Sunday, 2 April, 2017
    Chinese capital controls
    Chinese corporate deals face scrutiny at home and abroad

    Record numbers of outbound mergers and acquisitions are likely to drop in 2017

  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2016
    Chinese politics & policy
    China turns away from the market

    Mergers between state-owned enterprises have little business logic, writes Jingzhou Tao

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