Notebooks from China (and much more)

1 -2014

Alberto Forchielli, Romeo Orlandi

• Publisher: KKIEN Publ. Int.
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9788898473793
• Subtopic: Government & Business
• Index: Economics

A careful look at what is happening in the vast Asian continent made up from two authoritative observers of that world to give us, in real time, a picture of what is about to happen and what direction is taking the colossal China and Asian countries in general. This volume is composed by articles that encompass different topics: economy, politics, society, culture; clear and detailed focuses, supported by an active and long-time in those countries by the authors. Alberto Forchielli, founder and partner of Mandarin Capital Partners, a well-known face in Italy and abroad is one of the most distinguished scholars of Asia and its many souls; Romeo Orlandi is a university professor in Bologna teaching "Process of globalization and the Far East" and is active in several consultations aimed at the Asian world. Along with they direct Osservatorio Asia, a think tank created by a collaboration between representatives of business and academia to continuously analyze the economic relations between Italy and East Asia. This publication is the first in a series that starts the collaboration between Osservatorio Asia and KKIEN Publishing International, in which will be presented periodically updated and in-depth Notebooks from China.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Notebooks from China
• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Almond-shaped eyes and sharp brains
• Raw materials without a market?
• The color—and nationality—of money
• Strange but natural and deadly alliances between the local and Chinese mafias
• A solid roof for Chinese investments
• IPOs in China: when the norm is explosive and progress is straining to flourish
• A new Latin American channel between Beijing and Washington
• Impossible Isolationism
• The thousand-year-old memory of the two Vietnamese sisters
• China: Finance Without Banks?
• Chaori Solar: A necessary failure
• An Unsustainable Maritime Ambition
• Macao’s Washing Machine
• China and the Crimean Dilemma
• Textiles, Tequila, Ephedrine: Mexico and China divided in the Fight Against Narcotics
• Xi’s trip to France commemorating De Gaulle
• Hope and the Law
• A win-win situation with Europe. Will China win twice or will internal divisions allow inaction to prevail?
• From “three no’s” to “three links” in the Straight of Taiwan
• The track that could lead to the trigger
• Detroit, Michigan, China
• Australia: Politics and the Economy
• Laying the foundations in the Philippines
• The Trojan Pig
• Beijing and Taipei: de facto allies
• African Pride Wanted
• China: the fuse between inequality and demographics
• China: size matters
• Thailand’s military coup and the end of Bangkok’s “Berlusconis"
• Respecting rules and customs, delegating with social groups, and guaranteeing welfare: Beijing’s awful adventure in Europe
• About the authors