How China’s energy transition is reshaping global business
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The great reversal: How to survive in the China pressure cooker
July 21, 2026 • by Winter Nie, Yunfei Feng, Marco Gadola in China • 16 min read • 
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Homegrown brands are overtaking once prestigious multinationals in China. Winter Nie, Yunfei Feng, and Marco Gadola offer three pathways for global players to respond....
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China’s primacy challenge: Government security imperatives override business logic
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How Chinese EV manufacturers are capitalizing on evolutionary cycles to outpace the competition
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Why China is well-equipped to deal with disruption
China’s shift from reaction to reinvention is a long-running transformation built on policy foresight and internal restructuring that global turmoil and the tariffs war have only served to intensify....
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