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Stephen Perry has been involved with China since his earliest days. His father was the leader of the Icebreaker group to China in 1953 which restarted UK-China trade relations a year after starting up the business in which Stephen is today Managing Director, London Export Corporation. This year is the company’s 60th anniversary of trade with China.

Stephen grew up with letters from China and stories from China and after studying law at UCL he joined the company full time. The company traded commodities with China and distributed consumer goods in the UK. Stephen opened up US-China trade for the company in 1971/72 and went on to establish subsidiaries there. In the early 90’s he decided to focus on strategic long term deals with China and put together some of the ground breaking deals of that period in China. More recently he has again broken new ground with a deal in Africa with China and a western company.

Stephen is chair of the legendary 48 Group who have been working with China since 1953. Their mission is to develop a positive relationship with China.

One of his main missions is to ensure that the British better understand China. His talk will be around that theme – understand China to work effectively with China.

• BRI

  By Stephen Perry on October 8, 2018

    This presentation to the World Economic Forum comes to me from Bill Totten’s Weblog.   It is a succinct piece.   It chimes with my concept of the unfolding BRI as a transnational concept, which is totally new. He… Read More ›

• The fruit is BRI

  By Stephen Perry on September 24, 2018

  A fruit   At the core is socialism with Chinese characteristics   The fruit is BRI   The peel is community of shared future – CSL.   The key is the peel, which informs BRI and SWCC. It is the… Read More ›

• China and Africa – The New African Industrial Revolution

  By Stephen Perry on September 6, 2018

  China’s President opens the meeting of 57 African leaders with China. This meeting has been proceeding in various locations and formats since the beginning of this century. I would recommend reading through these announcements and reports as the media in… Read More ›

• BRI and Africa

  By Stephen Perry on August 30, 2018

  Ahead of the China Africa summit in a few days , Henry Tillman has published this analysis of Chinese works with and in Africa. President Xi spoke at Brics in South Africa about helping an African Industrial Revolution. This requires,… Read More ›

• Two systems cooperating or clashing in one world

  By Stephen Perry on August 18, 2018

  If the USA can move beyond its current sanctions approach to Iran, North Korea, Russia, Turkey and China, it could build a cooperation with China to bring extraordinary growth to the USA economy.   These targeted nations are among the… Read More ›

• Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development

  By Stephen Perry on August 18, 2018

  Hong Kong’s context is laid out in this article   http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/14/c_137390287.htm   for those of us who struggled from the Kowloon Hong Kong station to the short bridge into the small fishing village called Shenzen, a journey of two train… Read More ›