Hints and tips:
...Ilona Szabó, co-founder of the Igarapé Institute think-tank, said Bolsonaro presents a threat not only to democracy but also the future of the Amazon rainforest....
...We see Wanda Wulz growing whiskers and fur, metamorphosing into a cat....
...But as Sino-US relations deteriorated, the think-tank pulled out and Mr Bloomberg moved the event to Singapore....
...In recent years, the conglomerate, which built its fortunes as a property developer, has gone after an “asset-light” approach instead as property sales tank....
...In an episode of news magazine programme News 1+1, China Central Television hosted an expert from a government think-tank to discuss the recent wave of outbound investment....
...That’s much more sensitive,” said Yang Guoying, researcher at China Financial Think Tank and a popular commentator on Weibo. There are clear stakes for investors....
...Wanda in particular has been fast to act to address its leverage problem....
...Yang Guoying, a researcher at the China Finance Think Tank, argues that the CBRC’s review of heavily leveraged companies’ overseas acquisitions is “a very normal risk control measure”....
...Margaret Myers, director of Latin America for Washington DC-based think-tank Inter-American Dialogue, has been tracking how these Chinese funds invest in South America....
...But Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a New York-based think-tank, said that China had ample room to defend its currency....
...Self-made billionaire Wang Jianlin, chairman of Dalian Wanda Group and one of China’s biggest outward investors, criticised SoEs for being slow and lacking long-term overseas expansion strategies....
...Wang’s Dalian Wanda conglomerate last month opened Wanda City, a leisure resort in Nanchang, southern China. Wang is banking on its ability to satisfy local tastes....
...Last year, Chinese companies invested an estimated $110bn abroad, up 16 per cent in 12 months, according to data from AEI and the Heritage Foundation , two US think-tanks ....
...“The serious flaws in Chinese corporate disclosure are why all-cash offers are often required,” says Derek Scissors, China analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think-tank....
...Chinese property and entertainment conglomerate Wanda paid more than £300m for Dorset luxury yachtmaker Sunseeker International last year....
...He had a stake in the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and was also the owner of a second world war tank, given to him as a Christmas present by Wanda. The two would divorce in 1999....
...Last year Wanda Group paid $2.6bn for AMC Entertainment in the biggest completed takeover of a US company....
...The action was “a big, public slapdown to another Chinese company”, said Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank....
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