Are China’s ports and shipping companies being used to spy on the world?
The growing reach of China across the global port industry is a decades-long trend that ...
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Where? South-east Asia. When? Now. As labour, land and other costs continue to escalate in China, its era as the centre of foreign direct investment is clearly coming to an end. That said, cheapness isn’t all – average monthly wages in Myanmar are just a third of their equivalent in China – and much depends on alternative Asian nations’ infrastructure and access to supply chains. The Philippines and Cambodia are particular bright spots.
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