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Sakoku or Sock oh you? Pondering the 7&i Holdings Takeover Saga and Japanese Economic Nationalism

June 6, 2025

In August 2024, Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), the Canadian convenience store operator best known for Couche-Tard and Circle K, launched a…

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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Kasetsart University Faculty of International Maritime Studies (Thailand) hosts Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard for special campus tour

April 30, 2025

Following the conclusion of the 3rd International Conference in Southeast Asia on the Future of Maritime Technology & Use of…

Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Wong MNC Center Founding Executive Director, gives featured speech at SEA the Future 2025 (Thailand)

April 30, 2025

In late February, Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the…

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…

U.S. Air War College Hosts Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, for Speech on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in early November 2024

November 21, 2024

On November 5, 2024, Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for…

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…

Rest of World interviews Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, regarding Microsoft China’s decision to relocate a large number of employees

November 21, 2024

Rest of World interviewed Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Founding Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the…

“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: Lessons for Businesspeople

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Chaitanya Pasupala

June 9, 2025

This brief distills the business lessons contained in Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, ed., Chinese Overseas Ports in Southeast and South Asia: Cutting…

Chinese Overseas Ports in Southeast and South Asia: Lessons for Policymakers

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Chaitanya Pasupala

June 9, 2025

This brief identifies policy lessons contained in Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, ed., Chinese Overseas Ports in Southeast and South Asia: Cutting through…

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Flogged about, Flirting with, and Fleeing China; The TikTok short app saga gets longer; Britain, Stealing, and a Chinese Steel Plant; and global tech reg. in the face of US threats.

May 13, 2025

The April edition of the Musings about Multinational Corporations podcast examines the political and economic challenges facing companies like Apple…

Apple plane lands in Indonesia and China; Walmart and Costco experience the high cost of low price; AstraZeneca’s China stimulants and depressants; get out of jail card ain’t so free; EU regulation of high-tech companies, Asian countries follow suit, an

April 22, 2025

This episode probes the ever mobile Apple planes, with only one having a Cook aboard; discusses Walmart and Costco's discovery…

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Top Investing Countries in India, Mexico, and Vietnam (various years)

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Blog – Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part IV: Poison “Bills,” Side Effects, and Immunizations

Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Posted: Jul 23, 2024

In fall 2024, the BIOSECURE Act, which blocked the United States (US)’s government’s use of goods and services from Chinese…

Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part III: Sequencing the DNA of US-China Ties

Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Posted: Jul 23, 2024

On September 9, the BIOSECURE Act, which this blog series has been covering since March, passed by a huge majority…

Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part II-Birth, Adolescence, and Adulthood

Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Posted: Jul 23, 2024

The most recent and prominent United States (US) attempt to limit cooperation with Chinese life science businesses has stalled, but…

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Flogged about, Flirting with, and Fleeing China; The TikTok short app saga gets longer; Britain, Stealing, and a Chinese Steel Plant; and global tech reg. in the face of US threats.

May 13, 2025

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“Trump 2.0 and the Debilitating, Discharging, and Devitalizing of Korean Companies”

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

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Chinese Overseas Ports in Southeast and South Asia: Lessons for Businesspeople

Chinese Overseas Ports in Southeast and South Asia: Lessons for Policymakers

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Flogged about, Flirting with, and Fleeing China; The TikTok short app saga gets longer; Britain, Stealing, and a Chinese Steel Plant; and global tech reg. in the face of US threats.

Apple plane lands in Indonesia and China; Walmart and Costco experience the high cost of low price; AstraZeneca’s China stimulants and depressants; get out of jail card ain’t so free; EU regulation of high-tech companies, Asian countries follow suit, an

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Blog – Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part IV: Poison “Bills,” Side Effects, and Immunizations

Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part III: Sequencing the DNA of US-China Ties

Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part II-Birth, Adolescence, and Adulthood

Killing Chinese Life Sciences, Part I: Poisoning WuXi AppTec and its Kin

The BRI is Dead? Long Live the BRI? Part IV-Bad Flail at the Rail(way) or How Not to Confront the BRI

The BRI is Dead? Long Live the BRI?, Part III – The Cracked Belts and Forked Roads Blocking Realization of the BRI Dream

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