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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.
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The UK and China – finding the way forward
This is a piece from the Sunday Times yesterday. It is an excellent description of the dilemmas facing the UK in managing its trilateral relationship with the USA and China. It also suggests how we handle this. Over 10… Read More ›
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China and the World – strategic strands
This piece covers several interrelated items. We have seen President Xi visit Moscow and agree an extended relationship. The addition of the word coordination to their relationship is unique in their international relations lexicon. International rules was related to the… Read More ›
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China and its borders
A significant article in Xinhua about the developing role of Vice President Wang Qishan. This is about a key national priority out of which BRI grew. It is about China’s unique 14 borders which affects their daily life in many… Read More ›
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China and the World
Reading this story from Xinhua, continues the theme developed in Russia, of broadening the understanding and reach of Community of Shared Future, which is the core philosophy of President Xi. It is very simple at one level – working together… Read More ›
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One World – the African Industrial Revolution
China has been discouraging Chinese export focused groups from staying based in China. They are being encouraged to develop their businesses in the developing nations to help them develop and broaden China’s trade and investment. That encouragement merely takes the… Read More ›
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New China
The new China will evolve between now and 2035. The USA is trying hard to block the rise of China to within acceptable forms to the USA. That will affect the timing, scale and wealth of the reforms. But I… Read More ›
