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Observation Room-US Inflation: Adding Fuel To The Fire on China Manufacturing?

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The year of 2022, so far, has not treated the China’s manufacturing industry as well as the previous two years since the pandemic. Internally, one COVID-19 lockdown after another tremendously paralyzed economic operation in several major industrial hubs; externally, rising manufacturing centers, such as India and Vietnam, keep strengthening its position as fast-growing rivals. But […]

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Observation Room – Tariffs Suspended For Now, What’s Next for Asian Solar Manufacturers?

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Solar panel manufacturers in Asia can finally take a breath. Early this month, the White House announced the tariffs imposed on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian countries, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, would be paused for 2 years. But the tariff suspension didn’t come as a surprise, despite the ongoing investigation, announced in

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Observation Room – Dynamic Zero COVID, Undynamic China Manufacturing?

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The chaos of the Shanghai lockdown seem to finally trigger the public outcry about COVID fatigue. It is not just the never-ending physical confinement in their apartments, or dire food supply that attribute to criticism on handling of the outbreak. Pretty much all economic activities have come to a halt in the most affluent, productive,

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Observation Room-China’s Push for “One Unified Market”: Will Foreign Businesses Get A Share of The Pie?

Observation Room-China’s Push for “One Unified Market”: Will Foreign Businesses Get A Share of The Pie?

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Just when everyone thinks the sole focus of China right now is placed on mitigating the widespread Omicron outbreaks in Shanghai and some other parts of China, Beijing has just announced new guidelines to create “One Unified Domestic Market”[i], aiming to push for more efficient and fair circulation of the domestic economy, against the backdrop

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Observation Room-Brace for Impact: What Russia-Ukraine War Means to China Manufacturing

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The fighting between Russia and Ukraine still ravages, and detrimental impacts on global economy are pretty much just right around the corner. China manufacturing is such a critical part of global supply chains, which had just made some delightful recovery from the pandemic and now once again fallen prey, that there’s no way it’d ever

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