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Cadiz & environs Autumn 2019

Rainy family holiday in Cadiz and environs in Spain, autumn 2019. Click here

 

Abe re-sets relations with China despite obstacle over East China Sea

Live TV panel discussion on Indus News on 26 December, 2019 (Move the time-counter to 23:23 for the start of the topic)

China raps US defense bill targeting its firms

Live interview with Press TV on 26 December, 2019

China sanctions US NGOs in China in retaliation of the enactment of Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act

Radio interview with Sputnik News Agency of Moscow on 2 December, 2019. A Sputnik article of 4 December follows

End of siege of HK Polytechnic University, discovery of cache of petrol bombs and weapons and HK Human Rights and Democracy Act

Live TV interview with RT on 29 November, 2019

The Global Distrust Crisis - MEDays Forum 2019 - 13-16 November, 2019, Tangier, Morocco

The MEDays Forum is an annual international conference in Tangier focussing on global issues attended by hundreds of delegates across the world. It is organized by the Amadeus Institute, a think tank under the auspices of HRH The King of Morocco. The 2019 Forum had the theme of "The Global Distrust Crisis". I was invited to speak at a plenary and a business and policy session on 16 November.

Following were my speaking notes. 

Download 2019 MEDays Forum Speaking Notes - Global Disorder

Download 2019 MEDays Speaking Notes - Energy War

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Hong Kong protests after Beijing's Fourth Plenum

Talk the Walk on HKIBC (Hong Kong International Business Channel, Cable TV Channel 76)

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US National Securiy Commission on Artificial Intelligence - November 2019 Interim Report

The National Security Commission Interim Report flags up Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the digital age's defining battlefield for economic, technological and security dominance.

While confirming the United States' current lead in innovation and application, China, along with Russia, is fast catching up. China is expected to overtake the US in the top 10% of most-cited research papers next year and the top 1% by 2025. The country is poised to overtake US in absolute R & D spending without ten years (p.17). The Report omits to highlight that China also excels in "associated technologies" of quantum computing and 5G, both with security implications. 

As China has become both a collaborator and a threat in AI research and application, the Report pushes for redoubled R & D funding, application of AI to security missions, training and recruting AI talent, protecting building upon American AI advantages, and marshalling gobal AI cooperation. 

The Report devotes a great deal of coverage to the emerging threat of China's AI ascendancy, including perceived intellectual property theft or espionage.

Considering the importance attached to AI's national security implications, it comes as no surprise that regardless of any temporary truce in the US-China trade war, America's bipartisan pushback against China's technological ambitions including AI and 5G remains non-negotiable. 

Download NSCAI Interim Report for Congress 2019 November  

Over 200 demonstrators arrested after weekend of increased violence

Live TV interview with RT on 4 November, 2019

Andrew's November 2019 Newsletter

(My quarterly Newsletter goes out to some 8,500 professional contacts worldwide. The following is my November 2019 issue. Back numbers may be accessed under What's New on this website) 

Greetings! 

The freest city in the world, Hong Kong has paradoxically descended into anarchy and a crisis of confidence. Fake news and conspiracy theories abound. Geopolitics are out in the open. Tense US-China relations and Taiwan electioneering are using Hong Kong as a pawn. Its fluid, social media-driven tactics are inspiring protests from Catalonia to Chile. As I write, street violence continues. 

 

Twenty-two years after return to the motherland, Hong Kong has suddenly woken up to the contradictions of One Country Two Systems. Beneath a prosperous surface, identity and social divide are tearing the city apart, aided and abetted by politicians and ulterior forces. 

 

It will be a while before Beijing and Hong Kong emerge from this trauma. Meanwhile, the following may offer some perspectives. 

 

Hong Kong 

 

How to calm Hong Kong's protests (Op-ed in South China Morning Post)

With Hong Kong protests over 100 days, ten ways to end youth anger  (Op-ed in South China Morning Post) 

The geopolitics of Hong Kong's protests (Article on World Geostrategic Insights) 

How Hong Kong's protests have turned into a "color revolution"  (Live TV interview on RT) 

China opposes Vice President Mike Pence's remarks on Hong Kong's protests (Live interview on Press TV) 

Why the Hong Kong protesters' remaining demands can't be met (Live TV interview on Aljazeera English Channel) 

Why Hong Kong protesters' remaining demands are not realistic (Live TV interview on Sky News TV) 

Hong Kong student shot in chest in protest scuffle with police (Live TV interview on Press TV) 

Huge anti-Beijing protest grips Hong Kong on People's Republic of China's 70th Anniversary (Live interview on RT) 

Would US revoke Hong Kong's separate status if bill is passed by Congress? (Live TV interview on RT) 

Unpacking Hong Kong's protests (Live interview on Sky News TV) 

The real story of Hong Kong's protests (An in-depth analysis) 

Smoke and mirrors of the Hong Kong protest story (Some perspectives) 

Can China tame Hong Kong?  (Recorded panel discussion on BBC World Service - The Real Story) 

Regardless of formal withdrawal of extradition bill, distance between Hong Kong's protesters and the government seems widening (Live TV interview on TRT World) 

Carrie Lam's Extradition Bill withdrawal - whys and wherefores (Live interview on Channel News Asia (CNA)) 

 

China at 70

 

Cross Talk: Communist China at 70 (Live TV panel debate on RT's Cross Talk)  

China at 70 has much to celebrate, but its biggest challenges lie ahead (An analysis from South China Morning Post) 

 

China & World Order

 

McKinsey - China becoming less dependent on the world as the world becomes more dependent on China (A McKinsey Report) 

A new Asian Century looms? (In-depth analysis drawn from "The Future is Asian" and McKinsey Global Institute) 

 

Energy

 

China succeeds in mass extraction of combustible methane hydrates in the South China Sea (Implications) 

 

Greater Bay Area

 

China's Greater Bay Area embraces fintech and supports Macao's bid to become China's offshore RMB-denominated NASDAQ (An early roadmap)  

 

US-China Rivalry and trade war

Trump tweets that China is buckling under his tariffs are grossly over-hyped - Nicolas Lardy of Petersen Institute for International Economics (A different perspective) 

US upped the ante with tariffs on China (Live interview with TRT World) 

State of The Play on US-China Competition - Center for Strategic and International Studies (An audio interview with Steve Hadley, former National Security Advisor) 

 

North Korea

US-North Korea nuclear talks - who is more eager and why?  (Live TV interview on Press TV) 

 

China-India-Pakistan

 

President Xi's visit to India following Pakistan PM's visit to Beijing (Live TV interview on IndusNews) 

 

My coming speaking engagement in Tangier, Morocco

As a Sponsored Speaker, I will be attending Amadeus Institute's 2019 MEDays Forum  in Tangier, Morocco from 13-16 November. I will be speaking on Towards a New Global Disorder and Commercials Wars & Energy Wars. My speaking notes will be uploaded on my website in due course. 

After the Forum, I will be staying in London until the early part of January, 2020. 

Cheer up and chill out

A repertoire of inspirational music, videos, songs and words. There is also a collection in Chinese.

Cross-border M & A propositions

You are welcome to send me propositions on a no-commitment basis initially. 

Separately, you are welcome to reach out to my son Terence, a Cambridge-educated Prince Phillip Scholar and UK-qualified lawyer-turned-banker. He has over ten years M & A experience in London with Allen & Overy, Deutsche Bank, and Houlihan Lokey. He has been based in Abu Dhabi working on private equity for the past two years. He has now returned to the financial services sector in London. His personal email address is terencehyleung@gmail.com  

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Speaking and lecturing invitations

I am open to invitations or proposals for speaking engagements, visiting lectures and tailor-made electives as a visiting/adjunct professor. 

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Andrew K.P. Leung, SBS, FRSA

International and Independent China Strategist

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Positions  

Chairman and CEO, Andrew Leung International Consultants and Investments Limited

(Founded in London, now re-incorporated in Hong Kong; name changed from Andrew Leung International Consultants Limited as from 10 July, 2017) 

China Futures Fellow, Berkshire Publishing Group, Massachusetts, USA (2011-13)
Brain Trust member, The Evian Group (global think-tank), Lausanne, Switzerland

Gerson Lehrman Group (Global Experts) Council Member
International Expert, Reuters Insight Community of Experts, Thomson Reuters

Senior Analyst, Wikistrat , a cloud-sourced global strategic consultancy based in Washington D.C.

Senior Consultant, MEC International (a UK-based global strategic energy consultancy) 

Distinguished Contributor, Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA) (global think-tank)

Professor of Practice, Hong Kong Institute of Education for Sustainable Development (2018-20)

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Certified Sustainable Development Planner, World Institute of Sustainable Development Planners

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Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
Elected Member, Royal Society for Asian Affairs

Think-tank Research Fellow, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus, PRC (14.4.2017-13.4.2020) 

Advisory Board member, The e-Centre , European Centre for e-Commerce and Internet Law, Vienna 

Honorary Adviser, International Institute of Management (IIM) 

Advisory Board member, The Global Analyst, India

Honorary President, China Hong Kong Economic and Trading International Association (from 28 March, 2016) 

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Global Commercial Agent, Changsha City, China

Hong Kong Advisory Board member, Denmark-based Executive Global Network (EGN)

Visiting Professor, London Metropolitan University Business School 

Governing Council Member, King’s College London, UK (2004-2010)
Advisory Board member, China Policy Institute, Nottingham University, UK (2005 -2010)

Visiting Professor, Sun Yat-sen University Business School, China (2005-10)
Founding Chairman, China Group, Institute of Directors City Branch, London, UK (2006-2010)
Vice Chairman, 48 Group Club, UK (2008-2010)
Committee Member of RSA, London Region, UK (2006-2010)
Included in UK's Who's Who since 2002
Awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS) in the July 2005 Hong Kong Honours List