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Insights - Screen through CMG’s diverse content, ranging from primers, analyses, webinar and video recordings as well as our public external engagements
Publications


New CMG Primer, analyzing China’s evolving approach to export controls
December 2025 | Our newest CMG Primer – titled: “Understanding China’s evolving approach to export controls and implications for international business – from its first export control action in 1997 towards building geoeconomic capacity and power since 2020” – provides a strategic analysis of evolution, intents and typology of China’s evolved export controls, plus it draws strategic implications for international business. Download the CMG Primer and subscribe to CMG Insigh


“Fourth Plenum”: towards more assertively shaping strategic conditions externally to better focus on “Chinese-style modernization” internally
November 2025 | Our newest CMG Primer – titled: “Fourth Plenum”: towards more assertively shaping strategic conditions externally to better focus on “Chinese-style modernization” internally – analyzes process and key outcomes of the recently held “Fourth Plenum”, the fourth gathering of the CCP’s 20 th Central Committee, taking place one year later than usual “Fourth Plenum” and thus exceptionally dealing with the agenda that is customarily foreseen for “Fifth Plenum”, nam


2025 "Two Sessions" - implementing reforms as follow-through from the "Third Plenum" in the face of insufficient domestic demand and Trump 2.0
“Let‘s listen to market voices, collaboratively promote policy implementation and guide social expectations in a positive way ” «要注重倾听市场声音,协同推进政策实施和预期引导,塑造积极的社会预期» — 2025 Premier Li Qiang presenting Government Work Report on 5th March 2025 March 2025 | This new CMG Primer, part of our continued tracking of China's macro policymaking to understand its strategic business context for foreign business, analyzes the key policy priorities presented at the 2025 “Two Sessions” hol


Understanding China's economy into 2025: Publication & read-out webinar
Understanding China's economy into 2025 - evolved development strategy, reform priorities and short-term macroeconomic management January 2025 | CMG’s newest CMG Primer publication, titled “Understanding China’s economy into 2025 – evolved development strategy, reform priorities and short-term macroeconomic management”, wants to provide our clients, current and new readers with a holistic and coherent interpretation of what is going on strategically in China’s economy into
Deep-dive analyses of key policy events and developments with relevance for foreign business in China
CMG’s own as well as selected experts’ insights on policy-relevant issues for foreign business in China
Analyses


CMG analysis: beyond preferential policy, Free Trade Zones again at forefront of China’s next chapter of opening-up
July 2025 | While global trade faces headwinds from rising protectionism and trade conditionalities, Beijing continues to follow-through...


NEW PUBLICATION: CMG’s external evaluation of the Swiss government’s China Strategy (March 2021), mandated by the Swiss MFA
Produced by CMG on behalf of the State Secretariat of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) Guy Parmelin, Head of the Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research and the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang at the meeting in Bern. P icture: Peter Klaunzer/Pool via Keystone April 2025 | Herewith, we are sharing the newest CMG publication: the external evaluation of the Swiss government’s China Strategy (2021-2024) which CMG carried out for the State Secretari


Prof. ZHA Daojiong: " Trade and investment will continue to be a priority for China's engagement with Europe"
October 2024 | Expert background: Prof. ZHA Daojiong – expert on China’s foreign relations Zha Daojiong is Professor of International...


CMG Horizon Scan for WEF: ‘Corporate strategy making in China – six building blocks’
June 2024 | In times of a rapidly evolving strategic business context in China, CMG’s cross-cultural vantage point and our experience in...
CMG insights provided for external actors
CMG Webinar Transcripts and Recordings


"Staying in Dialogue with China - "Recording of Webinar #5 with YAO Yang on "Reality check" - interpreting the 15th Five-Year-Plan “proposition” (建议) as key output of the CCP’s 20th CC “Fourth Plenum”
January 2026 | In the 5th webinar of the 4th edition of our series “Staying in Dialogue with China” , an initiative aimed at helping international businesses understand China #insideout, we were honoured to host YAO Yang , Professor and Dean of the Dishuihu Advanced Finance Institute at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and former Dean of Peking University’s National School of Development (NSD). Prof. YAO Yang is a leading expert on China’s political economy and ec


"Staying in Dialogue with China - "Recording of Webinar #4 with Yu Tiejun on "Changes Unseen in a Century”
October 2025 | In our fourth webinar of the 2025 edition of the “Staying in Dialogue with China” webinar series which is this time dedicated to the theme of China’s next and upcoming 15th Five-Year-Plan (2026-2030), we talked to YU Tiejun, President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) and Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University (PKU). For the fourth webinar, Markus Herrmann, Co-Founder & Managing Director of CM


Flash Webinar: The "Taiwan issue" under Trump 2.0 - Recording of Webinar with WU Yongping (July 10, 2025)
July 2025 | On Thursday, July 10th 2025, China Macro Group (CMG) hosted a flash webinar to discuss the "Taiwan issue" under Trump 2.0. ...


"Staying in Dialogue with China - "Recording of Webinar #3 with XIE Danxia on "The long view - 10-year outlook imagining China in 2035 as the next key modernization milestone" (20th June 2025)
June 2025 | In our third webinar of the 2025 edition of the “Staying in Dialogue with China” webinar series which is this time dedicated...
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