by Afshin Molavi | Jan 7, 2021 | China Economy, China Equities, Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, NewPost
From Shenzhen Daily “ZHONG SHANSHAN is a private billionaire who’s rarely quoted in the press. Now, after an improbable career spanning journalism, mushroom farming and health care, he’s become Asia’s richest person, eclipsing India’s Mukesh Ambani and a group...
by Afshin Molavi | Jan 5, 2021 | Emerging Markets, NewPost, Original Articles
The United Kingdom and Turkey signed a free trade agreement that took effect on January 1 – the day that the UK formally departed the European Union. The deal will protect existing preferential tariff rates for both sides in a trade relationship exceeding $20...
by Afshin Molavi | Dec 8, 2020 | China/Middle East, Emerging Markets, NewPost, West Asia Economies
From Rabat to Riyadh, and from Alexandria to Abu Dhabi, China has emerged as a major geo-economic player in the Middle East and North Africa region, and the money trail gives us clues to Beijing’s broader thinking on the region. I was delighted to work with the Hoover...
by Afshin Molavi | Oct 25, 2020 | Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, NewPost, Original Articles
By Afshin Molavi At the nexus of geopolitics and markets in the emerging world Our lead story this week is China’e economy: Is the recovery real, and what does it mean for the global economy? We also look at protests rocking Nigeria, the #MilkTeaAlliance between...
by Afshin Molavi | Oct 25, 2020 | Articles, Emerging Market Multinationals, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, FiveG (5G), NewPost, South Korea, Telecoms
By Afshin Molavi “Change everything, except your wife and children.” Those words by Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, uttered in 1993 at a low point in the company’s history, have become enshrined in the lore of the South Korean conglomerate that has...
by root | Oct 23, 2020 | China Economy, Emerging Markets, NewPost, Original Articles, Top Ten Lists, Trade
By Yukai Jiao Nearly six decades ago, in the year 1964, the New York Times ran a story with a simple headline: “Taiwan Success Story.” Even as far back as the early 1960s, Taiwan was widely acknowledged as a rising economic star in Asia, and eventually emerged as one...
