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Then there’s Apple. The trade war combined with China’s slowing economy present a significant short-term threat to the company’s profits. As we note in section 1, smartphone handset sales in China in August were reported at 32.6 million units, a decline of 20.9% year-over-year a...

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…bservation: Lately, the Li Keqiang Index has accelerated much more than the reported GDP growth. One could surmise that China’s actual GDP growth (measured on a year-over-year basis rather than on an annualized sequential change) may have been greater than the reported 6.9% in th...

163 intervened with hotels where activities involving Taiwan (such as trade shows) flew the flag of the Republic of China. Probably in view of the costs incurred by cancelling a contract with their Taiwanese partners, the addressees in general did not comply. In a similar inci...

…l resource in the intelligence war. To get both electronic intelligence and human intelligence about the United States, China also had a highly-productive intelligence sharing treaty with Russia. It was signed in 1992 after the Soviet Union was dissolved. Although the terms of th...

…f course. We have to look at the short-term, mid-term, and long- term. Let’s look at the background to understand where China is today. This is the 40% year, the anniversary, of China’s reform and opening up. On December 18*, 1978, Deng Xiaoping made his famous speech, which tran...

190 businessman with business interests in China. There is an unsubstantiated rumor that the investment was subsidized by $1 million from the Ministry of Propaganda. e Duowei is another online source that was for years an independent Chinese- language media. It was purchased...

…tions Recent headlines that the trade war may be escalating to a cold war are not without merit, as we believe that US-China relations are changing on a more structural basis and will have a longer-term impact. On a short-term basis, however, US exposure to China is limited with...

including China Life Insurance (2628 HK)

…a second Tong declared its fealty to Beijing, and a competition broke out between the PRC and Taiwan in San Francisco’s Chinatown to see which side could fly the most flags. This competition can be vividly seen from the seventeenth floor of a public housing project overlooking Ch...

…cancelled by Beijing and forced to move to Singapore.) International service broadcasters Another roadblock has been China’s efforts to limit the influence of the Mandarin services of the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Starting in the first decade of the 2000s, the Chin...

… whatever the actual citizenship of individuals may be, presumes them to retain not only an interest in the welfare of China but also a loosely defined cultural, and even political, allegiance to the so-called Motherland (#4). Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, diaspora Chinese have...

… you squeezed its hump, emitted a camel honk. When I turned it over to see where it was manufactured, it read: “Made in China.” Now that they have decided to put former President Hosni Mubarak on trial, I hope Egyptians add to his indictment that he presided for 30 years over a c...

1) Upturn in inventory cycle: Defensives—Cyclicals We expect cyclicals to outperform defensives, premised on our end-2017 $/¥ estimate of ¥120, and this is supported by our above-consensus economic growth outlook. Our Japan economist sees a shift to fiscal easing, firms counteri...

Amanda Ens Director | Global Equities Bank of America Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated Japan Investment Strategy Nikkei to 20,000: Inventory cycle upturn — cyclicals; inflation — banks, insurance Investment Strategy 18 November 2016 Key tak...