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The China Belt and Road Initiative: a Horizons Corporate Advisory primer

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is designed to improve the infrastructure of land and maritime routes in Eurasia in order to drive trade and capital flows between east and west. The Initiative will connect China and more than 65 other countries along land and sea routes from Malaysia to Eastern Europe. Investment of more than 900 billion US dollars is already committed to building infrastructure networks.

The road to the future world economy

The Belt and Road Initiative was officially launched in […]

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15 Chinese cities join the ranks of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen as ‘first-tier cities’

Numerous news and information outlets with an eye on China reported that in May, China’s financial news group Yicai released its 2017 ranking of Chinese cities (Chinese here; English here).

Rankings are based on each cities’ commercial appeal and stem from a comprehensive study carried out by The Rising Lab, a subsidiary of Yicai.

Joining first-tier powerhouses Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen are, in order: Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Nanjing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Xi’an, Changsha, Shenyang, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Dalian, Dongguan and […]

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Technology disruptions are advancing across all industry sectors, and the legal profession is no exception. Are lawyers being assisted or replaced?

“Legal innovation has lagged compared with other industries.” So says Mark A. Cohen in his 1,300-word opinion piece about the convergence of law and tech penned for Forbes.com (‘Legal Innovation’ Is Not An Oxymoron — It’s Farther Along Than You Think). In the article, Cohen sheds light on a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) and legal tech services providing innovation in a heavily precedent based sector.

A lawyer who writes on changes in the legal ecosystem and the melding of […]

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