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China-US Tariffs War: Trump Pauses Tariffs Amid Global Uncertainty

Live TV interview on 10 April 2025 with NewsX, India's fastest growing English-language global TV news channel claiming 100 million viewers. 

Asian Markets Plunge as Trump's Tariffs Spark Global Trade Fears

Exclusive live TV interview on News X, India's fastest growing global Enlgish-language news TV cbannel claiming 100 million viewers. 

PM Modi Urges Dialogue, China Calls For An Elephant-Dragon Dance

Exclusive live TV interview on CNBC TV18 (of India).

Shipping firms pull out of Hong Kong to skirt US tariffs - dynamics

Live radio interview with CNA (Channel News Asia), Singapore's premier media channel.

Preparing the next Hong Kong generation for Future Business Leadership in a New Global Economy

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A presentation to a group of Hong Kong parents on 24 February 2025. 

 

Indonesia Economic Summit 2025

BackChat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) on 21 February 2024. 

Paradigm Shifts Upending the Global Order 2025

A PowerPoint presentation at the Hong Kong EGN Founding Chairmen Group meeting of 14 February 2025.
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American "TikTok refugee" folk song on heart-warming exchanges

Threatened by America’s impending ban, later stayed by President Trump, millions of American ardent TikTok supporters have fled to China’s ubiquitous Xiaohongshu (known as RedNote), China's hugely popular "Instagram" until now populated virtually entirely by China's young generation.

This has prompted numerous person-to-person, heart-to-heart bilingual outpourings between young peoples across the cultural and ideological divide, with many a tear-jerking epiphany moment. A new America-composed folk song captures the spirit of the moment. Download American folk song on Xiaohongshu 

So far separated by anti-China rhetoric, the gulf  between China's youths and their Western counterparts with similar lifestyles and hobbies is poised to be breached  by a wave of migration to Xiaohongshu.  This should help usher in a new phase of more positive people-to-people exchanges, paving the way for better international relations. 

This adds impetus to a rising tide of people-to-people exchanges following China’s unilateral visa-free treatment to 38 European countries: namely, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Malaysia, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Republic of Korea, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Estonia, Latvia, Japan and Negara Brunei Darussalam.

Momentum is building up to reach President Xi’s target of bringing 50,000 young Americans to China over the next five years for study and exchange programmes by way of improving ties.   

Andrew's October 2024 Newsletter

(My quarterly Newsletters go out to some 8,000 professional contacts worldwide. The following is my October 2024 issue. Back numbers may be accessed under What is New on my website.)

Greetings! I hope you have had a rewarding and enjoyable summer! 

Barring uncertain outcome of the U.S. Election, American foreign policy continues to be dictated by chauvinistic hubris and political correctness borne of decades of American primacy and exceptionalism. This translates into an obsession with shaping the world in America's own image and bending countries to suit American interests, at the expense of balkanizing the world into divided camps. China, America's perceived primary "challenger", remains the elephant in the room.  

The jury is still out on how best the United States should respond to an overhyped "existential threat" from China, how it could realize sustainable peace in the Middle East, and what role it should play to resolve the bloody Russia-Ukraine connundrum for a more peaceful Europe. 

Serial U.S. proactive actions or measures, whether sanctions or shuttle diplomacy, seem to be running around in circles, talking past opposite numbers, if not tilting at windmills, while humanitarian crises deepen in war zones and disruptions continue to degrade livelihoods across the globe.

Absent cool-headed analysis of viable and sustainable endgames, confrontation hardly equates to credible strategy. Apart from the scale and dimension of China's rise including the best support of its people, we now live in a very different and closely-connected world, driven by the digital Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions, rampant pandemics, and  multifacted impacts of quickening Climate Change.

The following may hopefully offer some different perspectives, if not practical insights for making the world a better place. 

Great Power Rivalry
To avert Thucydides Trap, US should compete with China in Olympic spirit  (Op-ed in China Daily). Sanitized and abridged versions in Chinese can be accessed here and here.
U.S. and China: Edging Toward the Brink?  (An Aspen Institute discussion by eminent international experts) 
The Arctic Silk Road (TV panel discussion on TRT World)
Malaysia's bid to join Brics - implications (Backchat on RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) 

China-Africa
China-Africa Summit 2024 - Implications (Backchat on RTHK)

China's development
Gradual increase of Mainland China's retirement age - Implication (BachChat on RTHK)
China's Third Plenum 2024 - Behind the jargons and the rhetoric  (Full-length feature article in The Global Analyst) 
"China needs more than hikes in Total Factor Productivity to realize its 2035 ambition" (An in-depth analysis) 
How to read China correctly in the coming Third Plenum (An in-depth analyis)

China's auto industry
A CSIS podcast (An in-depth discussion by American experts)

Hong Kong
Enacting HKETO Certification Act will sacrifice Washington’s own interests (Op-ed in China Daily) 
Hong Kong Editors Convicted of Sedition in "Blow to Press Freedom" (Live TV interview on Aljazeera English Channel) 

Climate Change
Fast fashion typified by SHEIN invokes ecological backlash  (TV panel discussionn on TRT World)

UK
2024 UK election result - implications (Backchat on RTHK) 

Cheer Up and Chill Out

A 10-point Multimedia Outlook on Life  (Music video)
Inspirational videos and excerpts for life's down-moments

International investment opportunities
I am on the International Advisory Board of Silk Road Partners, an international investment firm. Mr Yves Leterme, ex-Prime Minister of Belgium (November 2009 to December 2011) has joined the firm as Senior Partner. If you are interested in getting in touch with us, please give me a shout.

Consultation services
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Business networking and speaking platform in Hong Kong
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Andrew K. P. Leung, SBS, FRSA  
International and Independent China Strategist
Andrew Leung International Consultants and Investments Company Limited

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 Tel Aviv and Washington D.C. 

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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

Contributing author, Politics Today

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

International Advisory Board Member, Silk Road Partners

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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 

Fast fashion typified by SHEIN invokes ecological backlash

TV panel discussion on RoundTable with TRT World on 23 August 2024