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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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BRI – Africa’s Industrial Revolution Stimulated by China
The following article is the first Western insight I have seen into how China’s BRI vision is helping major areas develop. Backing infrastructure is key. Then its companies help develop raw materials to finished goods for export. This is… Read More ›
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BRI
We should not be surprised that in addition to China accounting for about 40pc of growth in world trade, that figures begin to appear that show a big reduction in transportation costs. Additionally because of that new transport infrastructure,… Read More ›
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One World two Systems
It is worth reading what the Chinese are saying about SCO. Some wild analysis suggests either the collapse or slow decline of the West, or a crisis in the East. Both are simplistic. It is not in the… Read More ›
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China’s University sector advances
This story tells of the continuing advance of the Chinese university sector. We have little sense, in the West, of what the Chinese university sector might look like in 20 years time, and how it ties into the nations… Read More ›
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China and the World and the Young Icebreakers
This weekend the SCO organisation will meet in China. India and Pakistan will join China, Russia and the five central Asian countries in expanding the SCO mission. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/06/c_137235165.htm On the 12th June the meeting of Trump and Kim… Read More ›
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The New Silk Roads – BRI
As Bri gains momentum, so policy makers and corporate planners and senior executives are trying to fathom this project which goes out into 2050 at least. But its reach is now into Africa, the Middle east and South America,… Read More ›
