Simon Rabinovitch
S_Rabinovitch
Ok, I'll bite.On the whole, China's economic performance in 2020 was, I'd argue, actually quite good. Not to dismiss its many problems (debt, inequality, statism, etc), but in the midst
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The Shaolin monastery abbot has long appeared in headlines as the "CEO monk". Who could resist it? On his watch Shaolin has made films and IPO plans. But I spent
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Small windows (literally) onto the intense (as in, crazy intense) competition in some parts of the Chinese economy: the cluster of independent coffee shops that have sprung up near our
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A look at China's "dual circulation" strategy. One way to interpret it: open economy to the outside world where that brings benefit; turn inward where that guards against vulnerability.Might sound
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A long read this week on how Xi is remaking China's economy. Conventional wisdom is that he's reverting to a statist model at the private sector's expense: a sure-fire recipe
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Easy for Luo Huining, parachuted in from mainland, to ridicule the US sanctions. But for HK's local officials, from Carrie Lam down, they'll be painful. Here are some comments from
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