Category: International Trade
Artificial Intelligence: who is ahead, USA or China?
The US is ‘one or two years ahead of China, not five or 10’ and ‘the Chinese are well ahead in areas like face recognition
China takes over US as EU’s top trading partner
Is China raising or simply taking back the role that it has always had? How can the West understand and face this reality? With Biden there will be less focus on trade balances, hence good for EU and Italy which enjoy a surplus with the US. However…
Cosa penso della Cina e delle opportunità e sfide che presenta: direttamente dalla mia bocca
Parlo di sfide e opportunità che la #Cina ci presenta, direttamente dalla mia bocca, onde evitare “fraintendimenti” dei media
CINA: ITALIA NON HA FORZA USA, LITIGARE E’ DANNO PER LE IMPRESE
My Speech at China Outlook Conference of the European Chamber of Commerce
Today my speech at the China Outlook 2020 Conference of the European Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. We talked about China’s economic outlook, trade war and business prospects. Here are my six bullets:
Italy and China manufacturing have a high degree of overlap, 60%. What to do?
During the China International Import Expo 2019 in Shanghai, I talked about the Italy and China trade relationship on Caixin one of the leading media in China. Here are my key points for the interview: 1) Although Italy and China manufacturing overlap with a high degree of 60%, more cooperation of the complementary 40% will bring opportunities in trade; 2) Chinese companies should do more greenfield investment in Italy to balance the nature of investment flows, which is skewed too much towards M&A. 3) Focus on cross-cultural exchanges. Language and cultural barrier causes cognitive barriers between Italy and China which then lead to missing business opportunities. More knowledge means lower risks and higher propensity to invest. After all, Italia and Chinese culture are very similar, especially with Southern Italy (Trust me on this!)
Italian Exports grew by 8% in May for a cumulative growth of 4% during the first 5 months of 2019
Export of our Made in Italy is confirmed as driving force of our economy. Representing about one third of the country’s GDP, every 1% of export growth translates into 0.3% growth in Italy’s overall GDP. In line with our strategy “Protection of Key Countries and Promotion of Emerging Countries”, a major push came from non-EU countries, where we have concentrated our institutional trips. Great performance of our export in the United States, from where we have just returned.