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 ...
With so much of the freight industry’s fortunes resting on the Chinese economy, it’s little surprise that we spend so much time analysing the stats and figures. The common wisdom goes that, as long as GDP growth remains at 7% or above, we’ll be alright. But can its government’s numbers be trusted? Not according to Quartz, which has derided the latest GDP figures, claims they are “manufactured” and asks why they even need to continue. “It’s a little unclear why the ...
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