What China is doing to promote joint ventures abroad
Who are the major Chinese government consultants pushing Chinese companies to invest abroad. The point of Giuseppe Gagliano
At a September 4 forum during the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), which is led by a committee that includes officials from the Public Security (Gonganbu) and State Security (Guoanbu) ministries, Chen Jian, former deputy Minister of Commerce who is a consultant to the China Center for Globalization (CCG), has urged Chinese companies to seek foreign investment and launch more joint ventures with companies abroad. This center, according to intelligence reports, is one of the most influential tools in the context of Chinese soft power on a global level.
The GCC, which boasts an extensive network of interlocutors through its various international conferences and through its team of foreign consultants, has links with the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of China. GCC Chairman Wang Huiyao, who previously worked on international economic cooperation for the government, is a member of various overseas Chinese affairs offices and organizations, all operating under the direction of the United Front.
CCG has numerous international consultants who come from politics, economics and academia. These include Pascal Lamy, the former director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), who has been active in China for several years, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China .
CCG's Chinese advisors include former ministers, ambassadors, and heads of state-owned conglomerates, as well as He Yafei, who previously worked for the State Council's overseas Chinese affairs office. The think tank also worked with financier Michael Kuan, founder of Kuan Capital, who invested in Israeli and Hong Kong cybersecurity companies.
CCG has promoted economic cooperation in various regions. He organized conferences on economic development whose participants included Henri Giscard d'Estaing and Pascal Gondrand of Business France. He held an event at the Munich security conference on cooperation with Central and Eastern European countries under the Belt and Road Initative (BRI) and also organized discussions with think tanks such as the UK's Chatham House, the Cato Institute US and the German Institute for International Affairs and Security (SWP). It also hosted discussions on China-Africa partnerships.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cina-contatti-aziende-estero/ on Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:08:32 +0000.