Pedestrians pass an Apple store in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing, on February 10. MNCs in China’s big market are having to cope with the souring of Western attitudes towards China, a relatively new and unexpected phenomenon. Photo: Bloomberg
Pedestrians pass an Apple store in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing, on February 10. MNCs in China’s big market are having to cope with the souring of Western attitudes towards China, a relatively new and unexpected phenomenon. Photo: Bloomberg
Hellmut Schütte
Opinion

Opinion

The View by Hellmut Schütte

Decoupling? Cooling Western attitudes towards China leave MNCs treading water

  • Foreign investment continues to grow and decoupling is not yet an inevitability but for most Western multinationals, the big decisions on China are on ice

Pedestrians pass an Apple store in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing, on February 10. MNCs in China’s big market are having to cope with the souring of Western attitudes towards China, a relatively new and unexpected phenomenon. Photo: Bloomberg
Pedestrians pass an Apple store in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing, on February 10. MNCs in China’s big market are having to cope with the souring of Western attitudes towards China, a relatively new and unexpected phenomenon. Photo: Bloomberg
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