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China’s Reaction to CK Hutchison’s Mega Ports Sale and its Implications for Foreign Business
March 28, 2025
In early March, the ports world specifically and the critical infrastructure and transportation worlds more generally were rocked by the…
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A Somewhat Tightening Vise on US FDI in Chinese High-Tech: Death by 1000 Cuts… or So…
November 16, 2024
The United States (US) recently issued a “Final Rule” to implement President Joseph Biden’s August 2023 Executive Order titled “Addressing…
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Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, delivers keynote speech at 18th Annual China Goes Global Conference
November 21, 2024
Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational…
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Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, queried by Finance Asia about Chinese Outward FDI Trends
November 21, 2024
This October 15, 2024 Finance Asia piece by Han Shih Toh discusses evolving patterns in the volumes, geographic, and sectoral destination of…
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Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations Orchestrates Successful Workshop on Chinese Overseas Ports in Africa and the Middle East
July 12, 2024
In early July 2024, the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (Wong MNC Center)…
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Executive Director Jean-Marc F. Blanchard interviewed for FinanceAsia story on Implications of US Government Restrictions on Investment in China
July 12, 2024
On May 7, 2024, FinanceAsia interviewed Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong…
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“Trump 2.0 and the Debilitating, Discharging, and Devitalizing of Korean Companies”

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Antonia Urovsky
January 31, 2025
In this Op-Ed, the Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations…

“Securing and Economising the US-Japan Partnership under Trump 2.0.”

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and C. Lawrence Greenwood
January 28, 2025
In this Op-Ed, the Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations…

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Chinese Overseas ports in Southeast and South Asia

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
October 15, 2024
This book examines PRC “involved” seaports overseas, where involvement can take the form of PRC foreign direct investment (FDI), contracting,…

Chinese Overseas ports in Europe and the Americas: Lessons for Businesspeople

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Chaitanya Pasupala
February 13, 2024
This special report distills the business lessons contained in Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, ed., Chinese Overseas Ports in Europe and the…

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Searching Deep for DeepSeek, part II; Stuck clock for TikTok; Tesla’s bumpy road in China; Apple plane finally lands and Apple AI in China; Mapping out Google Maps; and tech potpourri

March 17, 2025
This episode continues our coverage of DeepSeek; looks at the stuck and ticking clocks facing TikTok; discusses the Apple plane's…

Clock ticking on TikTok; Apple plane still circling Indonesia; searching deep about DeepSeek; Shein’s lost luster; and taxing tech and taxed by it

February 13, 2025
In this episode, we discuss the TikTok's ticking clock and the effort, by some, to rescue it; track the Apple…

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