Asia-Pacific Foreign Investment Brief
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The investment landscape in Asia and the Pacific has become increasingly uncertain and tied to the unfolding of current global and...

In today’s heavily interconnected world, a country’s reputation can have a big impact on its overall economic prosperity. In fact, a...

The advantages China offers will not become available closer to home and the costs of reshoring are high and often prohibitive....

INSIGHTS: Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers...

Latest November China Trade Data insights from our partners at Trade Data Monitor, authored by Chief Economist, John W Miller - For a...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement comes at a time of major upheaval caused by COVID-19 and could help revive...

The world’s biggest free-trade agreement by population and GDP will bring huge tariff cuts for its Asean and Pacific Rim signatories,...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is expected to be signed this weekend during video meetings hosted by Asean In the...

We are pleased to share the October China Preliminary Data from our partners Trade Data Monitor, summarised by John Miller. For a copy of...

Cross-border e-commerce in China is on track for growth this year despite global lockdowns that constrained shipping capacity and supply...

Asian markets are seeing a robust resilience through the current covid, trade wars & associated economic turbulence. With strong intra...

China has recorded strong growth in trade, while other major economies still struggle with the impact of coronavirus. Exports in...

Interesting perspectives on China +1, an often misunderstood economic & trade reality that is based on high value market growth in SE...

Excellent article by Evan A. Feigenbaum vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Beijing and...

Beijing says firms on ‘unreliable entities list’ will be banned from trading with, investing in China Commerce ministry releases details...

This year could end today and it would still rival the most challenging periods for the international trading system. But the next 3 1/2...

By John W. Miller, Chief Economic Analyst - Trade Data Monitor - The business of China is strong. The country’s exports increased to...

The COVID-19-induced economic recessions worldwide have put downward pressure on cross-border investments. FDIs in emerging and...

“Reshoring was just something nice, a nice idea, mostly for companies that should never have outsourced to a country like China,” The...

An interesting summary of the numbers behind the headlines by Scott Kennedy, CSIS With the world paying close attention to the...