Deepen All-round Cooperation and Usher in a Brighter Future
Deepen All-round Cooperation and Usher in a Brighter Future Speech by H.E. Jia Qinglin Chairman of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Of the People’s Republic of China At New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre Of Victoria University of Wellington...
Be Like the Crocodile in the Yangtze River
Be Like the Crocodile in the Yangtze River Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba group and the king of e-commerce in China, once famously said “eBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If the crocodile fights the shark in the ocean, it will lose, but if we fight in the river, we...
NZ COMPANIES NEED TO FORGE AHEAD WITH RMB PLANS
PBOC ANNOUNCEMENT MEANS NZ COMPANIES NEED TO FORGE AHEAD WITH RMB PLANS, SAYS HSBC Recent announcements from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) that it is in the process of upgrading its payments systems to make it easier to clear RMB across its borders, suggests that this is yet another move towards the...
NZ's Role in China's Spending Shift
New Zealand's Role In China's Spending Shift By Tony Alexander, Bank of New Zealand Chief Economist One of the most interesting things about the massive growth in China’s economy over the past three decades is that it has not come about as a result either of a grand 1960s-type communist plan or of a typical...
NZ-China Relationship - How Far We've Come
By Tony Alexander, BNZ Chief Economist I’ve been spending the past few weeks looking at the economic relationship between New Zealand and China and have one over-arching observation to make. When China is discussed in the New Zealand media it is almost never in the context of how we can manage the relationship in...
30 Years of NZCTA
By Bruce Kohn Deng Xiaoping, architect of China’s market reforms, told cadres of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on 16 January, 1980: “The role we play in international affairs is determined by the extent of our economic growth”. The remarks are especially apt in the...
NZCTA: The value of a contrarian perspective
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.” – Thomas Watson...
NZCTA: Rabbit to bring calm, tranquility and good ...
The Rabbit is said to bring a year somewhat more tranquil than its predecessor, the Tiger, where you can “catch your breath and calm your nerves”. It’s a good year to conduct negotiations and public servants and leaders can look to the Rabbit, whose “soft speech and graceful and nimble ways embody...
Overseas buyers a blessing to struggling farms
Contrary to public opinion, there is no queue of foreigners to buy farmland in New Zealand. Many farm owners have been seeking capital to pay down debt, expand or exit. Some have been trying for more than a year, such as the Crafar farms in receivership, Graeme Hart's dairy farms and others less well known....
NZCTA: Opening Up Elements of a China Strategy
In its most recent publication, “A Goal is not a Strategy”, the NZ Institute scolds the lack of strategy to accompany our current heady goal to match Australia’s per capita GDP by 2025. In fact, we seem to recall that former Opposition Leader and career strategist, Don Brash actually did come up with a...
A China Strategy - Beyond Cows and Trees?
The purchase of a majority share in Synlait by Bright Dairy should be hailed as a positive signal that overseas interests are keen to invest in our productive sector even if successive Governments have encouraged New Zealanders to invest predominantly in residential property rather than taking equity in areas which should...
NZCTA: Tribute to Victor Percival, ONZM
It’s our sad task to advise the death of NZCTA Honorary Lifetime Member and former Chairman, Vic Percival on 24 July at his home at the age of 82. We repeat and update the tribute we made to Vic after he had been awarded his ONZM: Victor Percival recognised the need to re-align our trading partnerships and...