Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, walk to attend the … [+] Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, earlier this month. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Foreign companies doing business with China that have endured heightened risks this year from geopolitical tension and Covid-19 pandemic fallout aren’t likely to get much of a break after the Communist Party’s much-awaited party congress in October, a prominent China scholar said in an interview today.
“We’re in for a period of increased tension,” said Bates Gill, a long-time China scholar recently named executive director of the Center for China Analysis at the New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute in New York.
His advice to international businesses and investors: “Proceed with due caution owing to the political and geostrategic risks that will likely…
