Your monthly political, economic and cultural insights updates from the CBI's international offices.
A view from China
After China’s 20th Party Congress, what next?
Back on the world stage
At the recent G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, many new and established global leaders had the chance to meet with China’s Xi Jinping. Unfortunately, the UK PM, Rishi Sunak, was not one of them, due to ‘scheduling issues’ caused by an urgent incident relating to the war in Ukraine.
Geopolitical issues and disagreements have dominated the year, whether at regional summits in Asia Pacific or at the COP27 in Egypt. Nowhere have these come to a head more so than in the world’s increasingly tetchy relationship with China.
The 20th Party Congress is finally over and after a year of domestically driven policy the Xi leadership has cautiously begun to re-engage with the rest of the world.
Business Matters
German Chancellor Scholtz’s business delegation spent less than a day in Beijing in early N