Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nigel Chiang

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

Economist

Edtech/ Evergrande/ US-China/ Taiwan/ Tibet

Our China Views in a Nutshell: Near-Term Bullish; Longer-Term Cautious

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Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

Economic Policy and Strategic Advisors

Macroeconomics

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<li>China’s crackdown on its big tech companies and attempt to decouple its companies from Western financial markets may not cause immediate damage but over time, the less friendly approach it has taken to the private sector will compromise critical determinants of progress.</li>
<li>The first is China’s ability to over time match or attain developed country technologies. Second, Chinese companies’ continued access to deep capital markets in the West, and the third is the Chinese private sector’s incentive to create wealth.</li>
<li>Over time, too, other parts of Asia could benefit from this. Singapore is already benefiting as wealthy Chinese seek to diversify their savings. The perception of greater regulatory risk could also see some foreign investors veer away from China. Competing production bases in Asia such as Vietnam and Thailand could benefit.</li>
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China’s crackdown on its big tech companies and attempt to decouple its companies from Western financial markets may not cause immediate damage but over time, the less friendly approach it has taken to the private sector will compromise critical determinants of progress.
The first is China’s ability to over time match or attain developed country technologies. Second, Chinese companies’ continued access to deep capital markets in the West, and the third is the Chinese private sector’s incentive to create wealth.
Over time, too, other parts of Asia could benefit from this. Singapore is already benefiting as wealthy Chinese seek to diversify their savings. The perception of greater regulatory risk could also see some foreign investors veer away from China. Competing production bases in Asia such as Vietnam and Thailand could benefit.


China: Regulatory Blitz on Tech a Negative for the Private Sector