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The Weekly Steep Archives

TWS: May 10, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from May 3 – 10, 2021: TBTF? We Don't Do That Here...; Outta There Faster Than a ’Roo in the Outback on a Hot Summer’s Day; Xi to Merkel: "We'll Always Have Duisburg"; Beyond Meats Plants Roots in China; It’s All About That Sweet R&D, Baobei; The Rise of the Renminbi: Hong Kong’s Role as an Offshore RMB Hub; and more!

TWS: May 3, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Apr. 26 – May 3, 2021: TBTF? We Don't Do That Here...; Outta There Faster Than a ’Roo in the Outback on a Hot Summer’s Day; Xi to Merkel: "We'll Always Have Duisburg"; Beyond Meats Plants Roots in China; It’s All About That Sweet R&D, Baobei; The Rise of the Renminbi: Hong Kong’s Role as an Offshore RMB Hub; and more!

TWS: Apr. 26, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Apr. 19 – 26, 2021: 5 Tiers * 3 Lines * 15% Debt Limit = Big Defaults; The Race for Oil Independence Heats Up; And the Gold Goes to…; Three Cheers for China's Giants of Mountainous Proportions; Internet Woes? China Goes Above and Beyond to Connect; A Win for Foreign Businesses in China’s New Foreign Investment Law; and more!

TWS: Apr. 19, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Apr. 12 – 19, 2021: A Lil’ Demand Spike Makes Everything Nice; Deep Demand for Shipping Takes SMEs to the Depths; Getting Gucci With the Digital Yuan in HK; PPI, CPI, ATH, PBOC, and All That Econ Jazz; Domestic Companies Get a Head Start With Political Marketing; Time’s A-tickin’ for the TikTok Deal; and more!

TWS: Apr. 12, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Apr. 5 – 12, 2021: Buckle Up and Enjoy the Ride to EVs; Taking A Slice of Rural Pie for China's Tech Giants; New Antitrust Laws? That's So [Not] Fetch!; Down in the Dumps With a Nasty Case of the RMBs; The King Is Dead, Long Live the King!; The Risk of China’s Stimulus Rollbacks to the Global Economy; and more!

TWS: Apr. 5, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Mar. 29 – Apr. 5, 2021: Fed vs. PBOC: As Different As Night & Day; All You Need Is a Chip and a Chair; Frigid Sino-Arctic Relations Heat Up; Ant Plays a Round of Cat ’n Mouse; The Long March Abroad for China’s Swelling Ranks of Global Giants; and more!

TWS: Mar. 29, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Mar. 22 - 29, 2021: Numbers Too Good To Be True; Should I Stay or Should I Go: The Story of a Dimming Pearl of the Orient; All Good Things Come in Threes; Rare Earths To Get a Whole Lot Rarer; 'Health Silk Road' Gives the BRI a Rebranding; and more!

TWS: Mar. 22, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Mar. 15 - 22, 2021: The PBOC Clears the Field of Weedy Debt Practices; Making It Rain for the Economy; In With the Old and Out With the New; Investors Bulk Up on Home Fitness; Revitalize, Rejuvenate, & Reform: The 2021 Guide to Chinese Farming; China’s Emerging Sporting Frontier: eSports & Online Gaming; and more!

TWS: Mar. 15, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Mar. 8 - 15, 2021: Causation, Correlation, and China; Giving the World a Run for Its Money; Besting the Bezoses: An Expensive US-China Divorce; Winds of Change Are A-Blowin' for China's Energy; China’s Housing Market: A Tale of Economic Progress and Continued Strife; and more!

TWS: Mar. 8, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Mar. 1 – 8, 2021: No Bubbly Allowed for This Bubble; Splitting the Pair – Beijing Doubles Down on Dicey Gambling Havens; Hasta La Vista, Maybe?; Cracking the Global Chip Supply Shortage; Another Step Forward on China’s Long March Towards Improved IP Protections; and more!

TWS: Mar. 1, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Feb. 22 – Mar. 1, 2021: HK Investors Give Their Two Cents on Three Cent Tax; Nothing’s Giggity About China’s Gig Economy; Beijing Finds a New Mettle for Scrap Metal; Wall Street's Closing Avenue Into China; A Glimpse Into the Past, Present, and Future of Xi’s Bellwether City, Shenzhen; and more!

TWS: Feb. 22, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Feb. 15 – 22, 2021: Pearl of the Orient Sinks to New Depths; Porking Up the Economy; No More Taboo Talk for Average Zhous; Profiting off Polluters; China's Tech Giants Take to the Ring; Wuhan’s Recovery: From Epicenter to Economic Center in 365 Days; and more!

TWS: Feb. 15, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Feb. 8 – 15, 2021: A New Year, Same Story; PayPal's Not Playin' Around; The Not-So Debonair Debt Trap Gains Its Wings; Shenzhen Housing: A Tale of Fire & Ice; Katherine Tai: A Look at Biden’s Tough New Trade Representative; and more!

TWS: Feb. 8, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Feb. 1 – 8, 2021: Shenzhen: The City with a Whole Lotta Green Behind That Green; It Smells Like Teen Spirit Across the Globe; Another One Bites the (Moon) Dust; Get Smart on the Future of China’s Economy; There and Back Again: A Chinese Space Industry Tale; Chinese Tech Giants Showdown Over Community Group Buying; and more!

TWS: Feb. 1, 2021

The Weekly Steep China Newsletter brings you the latest China business insights from Jan. 25 – Feb. 1, 2021: The Chinese Economy Gets Locked and Loaded for Round '21; Turning Tomato-Faced Over Forced Labor; Beijing's Heavy-Duty Solution for a Deep Financial Cleansing; Stepping on the Gas for Autonomous Autos; No More 'Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge' for Chinese Companies, Says MOC; What the Proposed Changes to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Mean for Businesses in China; and more!
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