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PhD in Political Science, Ganyi gives a sharp look at the evolutions of the global Supply Chain industry through the prism of the political and economic context.

China-Europe rail freight growth: long-lasting trend or flash in the pan?

The coronavirus pandemic has boosted the emergence of new options for the supply chain between Asia and Europe. Other modes than ocean shipping and airfreight have been considered, in particular railway and intermodal shipping. The Chinese government strongly supports this trend. The pandemic has po...
Ganyi Zhang
July 03 2020
7 min

Tensions between China and US: closer EU-China trade relations?

Could trade relations between China and the European Union profit from the tensions between China and the US? This article tries to answer this question by exploring the impact of the transatlantic and transpacific trade tensions on China-EU trade relations. The China-US phase one deal certainly did...
Ganyi Zhang
June 23 2020
8 min

EU-Brazil trade amid the recovery and outbreak

Brazil is the single largest supplier of agricultural products and the main supplier of raw material for the European Union. Whilst the country is now in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, this paper discusses the impact of the outbreak in Brazil on the recovery of the EU. Since May, as Europe b...
Ganyi Zhang
June 09 2020
7 min

Cross-border E-commerce: a silver lining to the uncertainty of global trade?

The pandemic has resulted in a strong increase in demand for e-commerce since lockdown measures have led consumers to seek more online options. Under the challenges facing global trade, which the IMF predicts will suffer an 11% annual contraction, we analyze in this paper if cross-border e-commerce ...
Ganyi Zhang
May 26 2020
9 min

Coronavirus: EU-Vietnam trade in the post-lockdown phase

The Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Vietnam is likely to enter into force in July 2020. In this article, we analyze the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on trade between these two stakeholders, and the perspectives in the post-lockdown phase. Among all the Southeast Asian countries confronting ...
Ganyi Zhang
May 12 2020
7 min

China-EU trade: Central Eastern European countries are benefiting

Unsurprisingly, the EU’s trade with China in the first quarter of 2020 has suffered a 10% loss in exports and a 6% drop in imports, losing its position as China’s largest trading partner to ASEAN. However, it is worth noting that there was an overall 6% increase of Chinese imports from Central Easte...
Ganyi Zhang
April 27 2020
6 min

Strategic autonomy of EU industry: No better time to discuss than now

The current coronavirus pandemic has sharply raised the question of European strategic autonomy. In this article, we have chosen to address this topic from two perspectives: the role of Foreign Direct Investments and the reshoring options to create a Pan-European value chain. On March 10th, the EU C...
Ganyi Zhang
April 14 2020
6 min

Throughput of Chinese Ports: the first impacts of the pandemic

According to data published by the Chinese Ministry of Transport, the total throughput of Chinese ports has decreased by 8%, and by 11% for container shipping volume during the first two months of 2020, partly due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Moreover, China will be facing a declining demand from th...
Ganyi Zhang
April 07 2020
5 min

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