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The opportunity to do business and make money in China has been on the mainstream corporate agenda for over 20 years, but in that time the nature of the opportunities has fundamentally changed—as have the risks. In an ironic reversal of the “China is risky” school of thought, it was the China opportunity that was suddenly brought into focus following the global financial crisis of 2008—as “mature” economies suffered from the impact of massive, previously unseen, systemic risks in the financial markets.
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© 2014 Jeremy Gordon
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Gordon, J. (2014). Opportunity and Risk. In: Risky Business in China. Palgrave Pocket Consultants. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137433237_2
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