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Disasters keep coming: letter from New Zealand

by Nigel Wheeler | Feb 12, 2020 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

It’s the time of year when my loyal half dozen readers expect a missive from the far end of the world. Usually a disaster, natural or man made accompanies my travels and this time is no exception. The ghastly ‘White Island’ horror occurred in...

Coronavirus Highlights Xi’s Vulnerability

by George Magnus | Feb 4, 2020 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

The coronavirus epidemic may be centre-stage for epidemiologists and other health professionals right now, but it is unquestionably also a political economy event in China with important repercussions for the rest of the world and financial markets. Look no further...

For China, the 2020s will be a difficult decade

by George Magnus | Dec 6, 2019 | The Economist, zLead Article, zNewsletter

At the dawn of the 2020s, China is facing challenges that are perhaps the most serious since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Until relatively recently, these were predominantly home-grown problems gathering momentum slowly over the last decade or so. They have become...

China’s patronage economy is the real root of the Hong Kong protests

by Leo Austin | Aug 30, 2019 | The Economist, zNewsletter

The conventional explanation for the protests that have gripped Hong Kong in recent weeks is that they have been triggered by opposition to the government’s extradition bill, but the true causes run much deeper. Planning consultants Demographia have named Hong Kong...

Hong Kong is going to cost China

by George Magnus | Aug 14, 2019 | The Economist, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Over the last few weeks of protests in Hong Kong, culminating in the violence in the Legco building last week, most people have rightly concluded that: at best, the end of the ‘one country two systems’ m.o. will be hastened; all the sooner, if the protests...

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