Back to All Events

Financial Cold War by James Fok | Finance Mandarin Reading Club

  • Finance Mandarin ONLINE 19/F, Two International Finance Center, Central Hong Kong Hong Kong (map)

In this event: Fok offers an insightful analysis of the world economy that extracts underlying patterns from the confusion of everyday commerce.

Book overview:

China and the United States may be on a collision course provoked by the forces of international finance, according to this study.

The author examines the “geo-economic warfare” between the two powers. This conflict involves the trade war started by then-President Donald Trump, featuring tariffs, sanctions, and bans on Chinese tech companies; the tensions over China’s huge trade surplus with the U.S.; China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which uses foreign investments and aid to draw other countries into its economic orbit; and military confrontations in the South China Sea.

Both finance professionals and lay readers interested in money, history, and geopolitics will find this a captivating, sweeping, and timely read.

Key Highlights:

  1. Understand Chinese finance regulators

  2. Connecting China to the World: QFII, RQFII, Stock Connect

  3. China companies IPO in HKEX vs NYSE