https://www.scmp.com/rss/516758/feed Chris Pereira is the founder and CEO of iMpact, a communications and business consulting group. He has worked with hundreds of companies on branding, PR, and business support for international expansion, and has nearly two decades of experience in China. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Chris Pereira Chris Pereira Against a backdrop of war and global uncertainty, Chinese Premier Li Qiang delivered a clear message at the recent China Development Forum: China is committed to being a “harbour of stability” for the world. The forum, which drew CEOs from global companies such as Siemens, Nestlé and Apple, signalled to the world that while the United States flails, China offers reliability and steady governance. Even before the US-Israeli war on Iran, however, my inbox was already telling me that something was... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3348213/surge-global-business-interest-chinas-harbour-stability?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3348213/surge-global-business-interest-chinas-harbour-stability?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:30:08 +0000 Chris Pereira Chris Pereira Call them China’s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei’s resurgence. And Labubu. Labubu did its job. The little gremlin doll made it clear that a brand being from China is no longer shorthand for cheap. Pop Mart has built trust to such an extent that company management is now forecasting US$4 billion in sales this year. So what’s next? Not more Labubu. The next chapter is bigger and more industrial than Pop Mart. Brand muscle is spilling into places... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3323996/why-labubu-craze-just-start-chinas-branding-boom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3323996/why-labubu-craze-just-start-chinas-branding-boom?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:30:07 +0000 Chris Pereira Chris Pereira In an amazingly short time, China has developed globally leading technology and manufacturing in multiple sectors, including energy storage, electric vehicles (EVs), renewable energy, telecommunications equipment, biotech and more. Many markets want these goods, and China now makes them better and more cheaply than anyone else. But the unprecedented pace and scale of China’s development in these sectors have also caught many countries off guard, posing a threat to their domestic industries,... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3314054/us-and-eu-should-welcome-chinese-manufacturing-not-try-shut-it-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3314054/us-and-eu-should-welcome-chinese-manufacturing-not-try-shut-it-out?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:30:07 +0000 Amid the raging debate about what another Trump administration in the United States means for its trade and relations with China, there has been little mention of how the Chinese public and business community feel about the man who kicked off the trade war nearly seven years ago. While we can only guess at how Beijing feels, many Chinese people, businesses and, indeed, investors actually favour Donald Trump. Given China’s sensitivity to public opinion and Trump’s well-known susceptibility to... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3287269/could-chinese-social-medias-love-trump-turn-tide-trade-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3287269/could-chinese-social-medias-love-trump-turn-tide-trade-war?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:30:08 +0000 Nothing has become so prevalent in the shifting sands of political and trade spats between the United States and China as the concept of Chinese industrial overcapacity. The US and Europe point to this overcapacity as the root of unfair trade practices that unnaturally drive down prices beyond where companies can reasonably make a profit. Electric vehicles, solar panels, energy storage technology and much more are allegedly receiving unfair government support which is pricing out local companies... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3265986/overcapacity-chinas-competitive-edge-lies-elsewhere?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3265986/overcapacity-chinas-competitive-edge-lies-elsewhere?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:30:08 +0000 As global supply chains divide and expand out of China, including for geopolitical reasons, other countries are taking on a bigger role in supply chains linked to China. Chinese companies often gain little from this beyond continued access to Western markets, but the biggest beneficiaries are the countries taking on manufacturing roles with significant investment, job creation and knowledge transfer from China. Over the four plus decades since China’s reform and opening up, the country built... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3258778/supply-chains-shift-away-china-others-get-their-own-economic-miracles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3258778/supply-chains-shift-away-china-others-get-their-own-economic-miracles?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:30:14 +0000 This year’s Cop28 UN climate summit in Dubai came right after the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing, held to strengthen and showcase China’s unbeatable manufacturing and logistics capabilities. Having attended both events, I see China’s connecting role as more important than ever. Though the supply chain expo was largely hosted to bolster the Chinese economy, it also shows China’s underappreciated role in addressing climate change. The good news out of Cop28 is a historic agreement to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3245107/face-it-chinas-clean-energy-firms-are-key-cop28-climate-goals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3245107/face-it-chinas-clean-energy-firms-are-key-cop28-climate-goals?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Dec 2023 08:30:09 +0000 A lot is made of the US-China trade war – some are even calling it a new cold war. Yet Chinese businesses are reshaping the world like never before. Middle Eastern schools are requiring their students to learn Chinese. Singapore is calling on the United States to be more pragmatic with China. And Europeans are loving Chinese new energy technology. Despite the staggering number of Chinese companies operating around the world in nearly every imaginable industry, there is still the perception that... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3235851/despite-us-china-decoupling-talk-chinese-businesses-are-flourishing-america?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3235851/despite-us-china-decoupling-talk-chinese-businesses-are-flourishing-america?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:30:12 +0000