Duncan Clark

25/11/2025

Great piece by CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal on how Jack Ma came in from the cold (sort of). With some inputs by me recorded in London when I had an actual cold ha.

Jack Ma is regarded as one of China's most prominent business figures. His rise from a modest background to co-founding one of China’s earliest e-commerce co...

17/07/2025

https://t.co/CuqzTgnMdX

Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our China Summer Summit speakers

Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)

28/01/2025

Commenting on DeepSight for the BBC World Service - threat to the "AI Energy industrial complex"?

Chinese AI chatbot sparks market turmoil for rivals

26/08/2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/tech/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-detained-france-intl-latam/index.html?cid=ios_app

French authorities on Saturday detained Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who founded the messaging app Telegram, at an airport outside Paris, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.

22/08/2024

https://x.com/StoryProtocol/status/1826227872455106967

22/08/2024

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/08/21/story-pip-labs-ai-copyright-blockchain-funding-andreessen-horowitz/

The creators of the Story blockchain say the service offers a better intellectual property regime for the digital era.

20/08/2024

Talking 🇯🇵 M&A with unsolicited $38 bn bid for Seven & i Holdings

20/11/2023

Excited to be joining the Board of Councilors of OIST, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, to help build a bridge between Japan and the world for entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders to enable successful collaboration in this beautiful facility.

Founded by the Japanese government, OIST attracts leading researchers from Japan and around the world to conduct high-quality research and catalyze technology transfer and industrial innovation in Okinawa.

OIST offers a wide range of programs, including incubation, acceleration, and collaboration with regional universities in Okinawa and Kyushu.

https://www.oist.jp/

11/11/2023

Dusting off my French to share some insights (hopefully) on France Culture about the outlook for the Chinese economy in the run up to the APEC summit in San Francisco and the meeting next week between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden.

Appreciate the opportunity to discuss this topic on Christine Ockrent's excellent weekly radio program in the company of four distinguished commentators.

Lots of challenges domestic and foreign for both the U.S. and China.

Today 11.11 is "Singles Day" in China but the mood for consumers and the big Internet platforms here is pretty subdued. The threat of deflation looms along with the knock-on effects of the real estate crisis, a depressed stock market before even talking about the drop in FDI just recorded and all the external pressures from chip wars and the decoupling/derisking dynamics.

Hopefully a floor can be found rather than a trapdoor to a basement staircase to even worse US-China relations.

The costs of a further deterioration are clear. Finding a balance between security and economic growth is the name of the game. Easier said than done! But the world could do with a little less drama these days for sure.

PODCAST. L'émission Affaires étrangères par Christine Ockrent est en replay sur France Culture. Les meilleurs experts nous racontent le monde qui change.

24/05/2023

A fascinating conversation (in English) and Q&A with legendary journalist Christine on her latest book, examining the fate of China's entrepreneurs in the era of Xi Jinping. Held last week in Paris

PARIS, May 15, 2023 — Renowned journalist, author, and "Affaires Etrangères" podcast host Christine Ockrent talks about her latest book on China’s private se...