What's New: Development

December 21, 2020

Macau and Hong Kong different paths to China. Why?

Inside Story TV panel discussion with Aljazeera English on 20 December, 2020

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December 18, 2020

Andrew's January 2021 Newsletter

(My quarterly Newsletter goes out to some 8,500 professional contacts worldwide. The following is my January 2021 issue. Back numbers may be accessed under What's New on my website)

First, may I wish you a Merry Christmas and a most prosperous 2021!

2020 will be remembered as the year turning the world upside down. A global pandemic of the century has exposed the fragility of health systems and deepened the fissures of globalization. US-China relations have sunk to an all-time low with bipartisan consensus branding China a systemic menace and arch competitor. Hong Kong and Taiwan are now caught in the crossfire while the rest of Asia are hedging their bets. The tectonic shifts in geopolitics are being felt in supply chains worldwide. A new Biden Presidency is raising some expectations without clearing fundamental anxieties. Amidst the engulfing fog, the following may hopefully offer some new perspectives.

US-China geopolitics

With Biden, China gets four years to remake itself as a likeable, trusted power. It must seize the moment (Op-ed in South China Morning Post)

The New China Scare - Why America Shouldn’t Panic About Its Latest Challenger (A think-piece in World Strategic Insights) The same piece as a commentary with views from an American YouTuber at the end)

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission 2020 Annual Report to Congress (An analysis)

US-China: Is it a paradigm shift? (A full panel YouTube discussion on the annual MEDays Forum originally scheduled for Tangier, Morocco)

Automakers file lawsuits against Trump administration (Live interview on Press TV)

China Overview

Why the world needs China (A YouTube presentation by an American digital entrepreneur)

Beijing passes new whistleblower law (Live TV interview on WION of India)

Automakers file lawsuits against Trump administration (Live interview on Press TV)

Asia

Political Economy of a Biden Presidency and RCEP - Implications for the Asian Region (A PowerPoint presentation)

How Asia would fare with a Biden Presidency and RCEP? (A PowerPoint presentation)

Taiwan

US arms sales to Taiwan aimed at pushing back against China (Live interview on Press TV)

Beijing vows retaliation over US arms sale to Taiwan (Live TV interview on RT)

India

China's border dispute with Nepal and alleged "debt trap" (TV discussion on CNN News 18 (India)

Hong Kong

A post-Trump era; Hong Kong 2020 and beyond (A PowerPoint presentation)

Anti-Beijing activists handed prison sentences in Hong Kong - whys and wherefores (Live TV interview on TRT World)

Need for judicial reform in Hong Kong? (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)

Disqualification and resignation of Hong Kong's pan-democrats (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)

Arrest of seven anti-Beijing lawmakers in Hong Kong (Live TV interview on TRT World)

Hong Kong's 12 fugitives and human rights (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)

Should HK permanent residents on the Mainland be assisted to exercise their right to vote (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)

The future of RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)

HK civil servants required to take oaths of allegiance (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong)

Cheer up and chill out

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

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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)

Certified Sustainable Development Planner, World Institute of Sustainable Development Planners

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)

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

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December 11, 2020

Political Economy of a Biden Presidency and RCEP - Implications for the Asian Region

PowerPoint presentation to the Hong Kong EGN Founding Chairmen Group meeting on 12 November, 2020. (Due to Covid-19 pandemic, the meeting was conducted via Zoom) Download Political Economy of a Biden Presidency and RCEP - Implications for the Asian Region

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November 23, 2020

MEDays Talks 2020

The MEDays Forum is an annual international conference in Tangier focusing 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. This year, thanks to Covid-19, the Forum moved online to take the form of MEDays Talks via Zoom, running from 10-17 November.

I was invited to speak on two panels (a) AFRICA, ASIA AND SOUTH AMERICA (3A) : BUILDING STRONG SOUTH-SOUTH PARTNERSHIPS AFTER THE COVID-19 on 12 November and (b) US - CHINA : IS-IT THE PARADIGM SHIFT ? on 17 November.

Due to a last-minute hospitalization, I was unable to make the first panel. My Speaking Notes are here. Download MEDays 12.11.2020 - 3 As Cooperation

I was, however, fortunate to be able to take part on the second panel as scheduled. The full panel discussion is now available on YouTube. My Speaking Notes are here for reference. Download MEDays - US-China - 17.11.2020

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October 09, 2020

A post-Trump era; Hong Kong 2020 and beyond

A presentation to the EGN Founding Chairmen Group, Hong Kong SAR on 12 October 2020.

Download A Post-Trump era - HK 2020 and beyond

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September 18, 2020

"Made in Hong Kong" no longer?

Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) on 18 September, 2020 (My interventions started at time counter 23:18 and 30:08 in the top bar)

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September 10, 2020

The reality of China Scare and the resultant Age of Disorder

In an across-the-board analysis dated 14 October, 2019 for a controversial online platform, the Unz Review, Godfree Roberts delineates China's rapid and alarming catchup with the United States, including ascendance and even dominance in a panoply of great power metrics including Government, Leadership, Economy, Infrastructure, Geopolitics, Finance, Science, Technology, Trade, Social Indicators, Education, Law and Order, Faith in Future, Socio-Economic Ecology; Politics, Defense, Morale, and Long-term Economic Ascendancy.

The analysis, however, fails to acknowledge the unyielding dominance of the greenback, America's military sophistication and global reach, its leadership on the frontier of science and technology, its global network of allies, and the soft power of the "City upon a Hill". Nearly two and a half centuries of American ascendance and exceptionalism have driven a strong sense of self-denial that a "dictatorial" China, a once-backward country for well over a century, cannot be allowed to share power with the United States imbued with a "manifest destiny".

Nevertheless, much of the prognosis has given substance to American paranoia or hysteria that an emerging "Frankenstein" (in Secretary of State Mike Pomeo's words) with a diametrically-opposed value system and an alien civilization is setting out to destroy the US-led global liberal order. Across the political aisle, there is American consensus that China's rise must now be pushed back, contained, and thwarted across-the-board, at all costs, before it is too late. The outcome is the increasingly decoupling from China, protectionism, de-globalization, and the return of the rule of the jungle.

China is deeply and intricately embedded in the whole world's supply and value chain, exemplified by concentration of the world's largest container ports on its shores. Some 124 countries across the globe have China as the largest trading partner, compared with 76 countries with the US. Many products, components and processes are globally diversified but with China as the central hub. Vigorous anti-China decoupling and fragmentation are massively disruptive to markets and economies worldwide.

The Age of Disorder has arrived, according to a Long-term Asset Return Study by Deutsche Bank, London dated 8 September, 2020, referring to upheavals of epochal US-China rivalry, a struggling European Union, Covid-19 impacts, rising inequality, worsening demographics, inter-generational divide, and climate change coming up close and personal. US strangling notwithstanding, the study expects that in nominal terms, China's economy will overtake the US by end decade, or thereabouts (p.6).

Be that as it may, too much doom and gloom may be premature. The outcome of the coming US presidential election, China's next Five Year Plan (2021-25), recovery from Covid-19, coming-into-being of the world's largest free-trade bloc - the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the advent of 5G and "Internet of Things", emerging Eurasian economic and geopolitical gravitas, and maturing of international relations, all could recalibrate how the next new normal is going to work.

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August 28, 2020

Shenzhen 40th anniversary, Greater Bay Area and what HK makes of it

Backchat with RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) on 27 August, 2020 (My segment is in the bottom bar, from 9:15 - 9:30 a.m., time counter 04:00)

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June 10, 2020

Andrew's June 2020 Newsletter

(My quarterly Newsletter goes out to some 8,500 professional contacts worldwide. The following is my June 2020 issue. Back numbers may be accessed under What's New on this website)

Greetings!

In just a few months, the world has changed almost beyond recognition. The Coronavirus pandemic has revealed the true colors of nations and peoples. It has changed how lives and businesses can be conducted. It has intensified an epochal contest for global power leading to a face-off between the world's Superpower (with its liberal world order) and its perceived challenger, with increasing risks of miscalculations.

Hong Kong, where I am based, is right at the center of these shocks. As if that is not enough, Beijing's unilateral introduction of a national security law for Hong Kong rattles the dynamics underpinning One Country Two Systems. This unique status has been an incalculable boon not only for China and the Special Administrative Region but for the rest of the world. Now the United States is threatening unspecified sanctions which could undermine Hong Kong's survival as a global financial center.

Amidst the doom and gloom, the following may hopefully offer some fresh perspectives in seeing through the smoke and mirrors.

Hong Kong

USA-China tussle: geo-strategically the report on the death of Hong Kong's autonomy is somewhat exaggerated (A dissection of what is behind Hong Kong's national security law)

China's HK national security law threatens HK's One Country Two Systems? (Live interview on WION TV)

Hong Kong leader slams ‘double standards’ on national security, cites US unrest (Live interview on Press TV)

Hong Kong govt. warns removing US special status is "double-edged sword" (Live interview on Press TV)

Hong Kong’s leader reaffirms new law would not harm rights, freedoms (Live interview on Press TV)

Should Hong Kong civil servants be loyal to Beijing? (A RTHK Backchat discussion)

National Security Law and personal freedom (A RTHK Backchat discussion)

Is the US posture on Hong Kong's national security law part of the anti-China "cold war"? (Live interview on TRT World)

China's controversial security law becomes a flash point in Hong Kong (Live TV interview on WION of India and CCTV background documentary)

Pompeo threatens China on impinging on Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms (Live interview on Press TV)

A "mid-term" Hong Kong Government ministerial reshuffle (A RTHK Backchat discussion)

US-China great power rivalry

Strategic US-China decoupling in the tech sector (A Hinrich Foundation report)

United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China (An in-depth analysis)

The Struggle for Power: U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century (A prelude to a new US defining strategy)

US China "Cold War" and the Coronavirus Crisis (Live interview on Press TV)

Why China is better prepared than other economic powers for any global crisis (Article in RT Question Time)

Where is China? - A perspective (A multi-angle look on multi-media)

Could Trump's spat with NATO over Huawei hasten the demise of NATO? (Sputnik's Opinion piece)

US - China strategic relations amidst allegations of China's secret low-level nuclear testing (Live TV panel discussion on Indus News)

US: China secretly conducting small nuclear tests (Live interview on Press TV)

Coronavirus crisis

Will China become weaker or stronger after Covid-19? (A critical appraisal)

Ten reasons why the Coronavirus crisis spawns a brave new world of discord (Article in World Strategic Insights)

Covid-19 Crisis - Can China bounce back? (Feature report in The Global Analyst)

Wikistrat Report: The Impact of the Coronavirus on China's Stability (An analytical Wikistrat summary)

China's Handling of Covid-19 Crisis is 'Embarrassment' for Trump Ahead of 2020 Election (Radio interview transcript on Sputnik International)

How an independent investigation into the origin of Coronavirus should be conducted (Live TV panel discussion on Indus News)

How the UN Security Council could agree on reining in mutual aggression to fight Covid-19? (Live interview on Press TV)

What's behind US accusations against China over the Coronavirus crisis (Live interview on Press TV)

Is China to blame for Covid-19 pandemic? (An in-depth analysis)

RSF complains to UN about Coronavirus press freedom (Live TV panel discussion on Indus News)

US-China sprat over Coronavirus pandemic (Live interview on Indus News)

Trump blames China for the Coronavirus pandemic (Live interview on RT)

China raps Trump over Chinese virus tweet (Live interview on Press TV)

China offers help to US to deal with Coronavirus (Live interview on Press TV)

Hong Kong announces $15 billion in spending ton support Covid-19 ridden economy (Live TV interview on TRT World)

Over 500 passengers allowed to leave ship after being tested negative for Covid-19 (Live interview on Press TV)

Economic impact of Covid-19 on global economy (Live TV interview on Ren TV of Moscow)

Is the world prepared for a looming Covid-19 pandemic? (Live panel discussion on Indus News)

World Order

The Decline of the West: What is it and Why might it matter? (An Asia Global Institute paper)

"The China Mirage" - Timely revisit of America's tragic misreading of China (A critical look at the looming risks)

New Money: The Greatest Wealth Creation Event in History (2019) - Full Documentary (A Stanberry Research documentary)

China in a New Era of Global Disruptions (including Covid-19 pandemic) (A PowerPoint presentation)

The Coronavirus could usher in a Brave New World (An in-depth analysis)

China has created tech ‘new world order’ in Big data and AI (A Future Today Institute tech-trend report)

Taiwan

US approves sale of 18 MK-48 MOD6 torpedoes to Taiwan worth about $180mn (Live interview with Press TV)

China blasts meddling as US signs new Taiwan support law (Live interview on Press TV)

Energy

China extracts 861,400 cubic metres of natural gas from ‘flammable ice’ in South China Sea (A global energy game-changer)

History

Book Review of "The Last Journey Of The San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He" (Book review invited by author)

7th International Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society in Lisbon, Portugal postponed to 24-25 September 2020

Subject to exigencies, I am scheduled to present at the above international conference my full-length Paper How will Eurasian Integration of China's Belt & Road Initiative fare in defending a Multipolar World Order. Should this materialize, I will upload my Paper and PowerPoint presentation to this website afterwards.