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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.

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

Coronavirus outbreak: a potential shortage of meat in China

The health situation is improving in China. But the supply of meat may become an emerging problem and a logistical issue for the coming months, as a collateral effect of the Covid-19 outbreak. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, Chinese food supply demand has been experiencing a temporary decrease s...
Ganyi Zhang
March 26 2020
6 min

Asia - Europe: Mapping out the connection between Poland and China

As one of the first Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to have joined the Belt and Road Initiative, Poland has marked its ambition to become the logistics hub connecting China and Europe. While Poland serves a critical role in the EU-China shipping connections, the Chinese investment in th...
Ganyi Zhang
March 05 2020
9 min

Coronavirus: The road back to work in China is a bumpy one

The whole of China, except Hubei, is now pushing to get back to work. Overall, the restoration of the Chinese manufacturing industry is asymmetrical when looking at the rapidly growing number of companies that have resumed work compared to the slow recovery of their manufacturing capacity. Over the ...
Ganyi Zhang
February 28 2020
4 min

Belt and Road Initiative: A comparative view of China-Germany and China-France cooperation

Although they have not formally joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Germany and France, the two largest economies in Europe, are inevitably involved in projects undertaken within this framework. This article delivers a comparative view of the China-Germany and China-France cooperative approac...
Ganyi Zhang
February 24 2020
9 min

The Coronavirus Outbreak: A summary of its impacts on the supply chain

The coronavirus outbreak is going to have a wide range of impacts on shipping and supply chains, as well as on the Chinese manufacturing industry. The coronavirus outbreak in China has caused over 300 deaths there since January 2020. On January 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the ...
Ganyi Zhang
February 03 2020
7 min

China-US Phase One Trade Deal: A moment of truce?

2019 has been a year full of uncertainties: The China-US trade war, Brexit, and troubled waters in Hormuz... Now we have entered into 2020, some are experiencing a moment of respite whilst others are escalating. Let’s analyze the trends that can be anticipated. Along with the signature of the China-...
Ganyi Zhang
January 24 2020
8 min

China-US trade war: what would a delay of tariffs mean

Another round of an additional 15% tariff on $156 billion of Chinese goods could enter into force on December 15th, at the same time as 5% to 25% tariffs on US automobile and automobile parts by China. On Thursday, Trump's signing off on the Phase One deal in principle may shed some lights on the tr...
Ganyi Zhang
December 13 2019
4 min

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