Source of picture: China Daily
By John Richardson
The famous investor, Jim Chanos, warned three years years ago that the West places an inordinate amount of trust in “nine guys in a room” (i.e. China’s Politburo Standing Committee) getting it …
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China NPC Underlines Inflation Focus
The course of true love never runs smooth…..Happy China couples get divorced and then plan to remarry in order to avoid new property tax
Source of picture: Quirky China News/Rex Features
By John Richardson
China will see “large inflation pressure in …
China Coal Cap: What It Means For Chems
By John Richardson
IF China’s decade-long focus on coal-fuelled heavy industry is really coming to an end, as this article in The Sydney Morning Herald suggests, then the prospects for further approvals of coal-to-olefins (CTO) projects seem very bleak indeed.…
Reassessing China Petchem Projects
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John Richardson
Methanol-to-olefins (MTO) projects in China are subject to more disagreement over viability than any other group of petrochemicals investments, said HSBC in a report released last month.
HSBC, for example, takes a pretty negative view of the …