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China’s new policies cause West to scramble to catch up

24 March 2015

Major change is underway in China under President Xi Jinping.  And this is not ’sound-bite’ policy change, created for the evening news bulletins.  Instead this is long-term strategy, intended to rebuild the economy for decades ahead. As a result, Western policymakers have largely missed its implications, and are having to scramble to catch up. One example is the sudden scramble to […]

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China plans $90bn spend on new “Silk Roads”

14 November 2014

I am just back from my first World Economic Forum meeting, having been invited to join its global chemicals council.  My first impression was astonishment – at the complete disconnect between the real knowledge of the experts at the Forum and today’s “consensus wisdom” . China is a great example.  The external consensus still thinks the new leadership is focused […]