Promises. Privatization and a more open economy five years ago that was chinese president xi jinping his plan for economic reform. More free market less state control many hope that would mean the breakup of state owned companies. Opening the door to more private businesses. Allowing the currency to float and a fight against corruption. But five years on many are disappointing. And there have been some successes in recent years chinas leadership is again promoting economic nationalism. The countrys huge state owned enterprises are once again determining the communist party strategy. Thats true of Many Private Companies too. And the yuan is largely back under the control of chinas central bank. Foreign companies are also dismayed at beijings about turn xi jinping punished greater access to chinas market the promise that hasnt always materialized in many cases foreigners can only manufacture and market products in the peoples republic with the Chinese Business partner at their side and there are restrictions and getting profits out of the country so many are listening to the speeches at the Party Congress with more than ten just skepticism. Foreign Companies Inside china prize their secure data connections with their headquarters that way they can keep Sensitive Information within the fob but now china is set to ban the technology that makes this easier many see it as yet another obstacle to doing business in china. Im calling is a German Company that provides data system consultancy to foreign firms with operations in china. The beijing government is now planning to block access to Virtual Private Networks all v. P. N. Encrypted connections that tunnel data traffic to a proxy server. V. P. N. Scores just a few euros and have become a critical tool for secure communication between foreign based companies and their headquarters. Theyre also used by millions of individuals to circumvent chinas censorship system. Because. Most of our clients are very concerned. If not horrified upon it. Because of how dependent their come on v. V. Ends. For being know going on for lawson and. The author of interfered with b. P. s before especially in the run up to communist Party Congresses but the regime had appeared wary of enforcing a complete lockdown on b. P. Ends probably out of consideration for the Business World but in the new year beijing will order telecoms providers to close the data tells us this is serious this time they mean it and theyll go through with it too. Many Details Remain unclear. But for the European Business community in beijing chinas internet policy has always been troublesome. We see it as kind of sort of a tax on doing business in china and and thats not good for trying to you what you were looking at creating more productivity more efficiency in the economy certainly ensuring that companies have readily timely and stable access to information is important and it hurts Foreign Companies even more and theres more in store for those companies a new law on Cyber Security introduced even more rules to an already highly Restricted Technology regime certain data may now only be stored on the main one for example for Foreign Companies in particular the assessments and adjustments involved will be a major burden. In the Service Ultimately the Cyber Security law means that not being compliant can get your company into serious trouble. It could even mean the company being closed down or having to disclose all of its data and no company want to start this mission were going to going to. What is already clear is that the new law will make life difficult for smaller foreign based into prizes and prevent others from even starting up here. This man is billionaire investor george soros hes given a whopping eighty billion dollars to his charity the open Society Foundations that amount represents a huge chunk of the hunt garion of investors well for twenty three billion dollars his charity Fund Civil Society groups that promote education democracy Public Health and soros isnt alone other american billionaires like bill gates and Mark Zuckerberg have also donated huge chunks of their wealth. So if he is following this for us from new york sophie how does sources charitable contributions stack up in the pantheon of big billionaire donations. Quite well i would say Soros Open Society from dayton is now the second biggest after going to Gates Foundation and would really makes him unique though is that he has the political donor very different from gates who has been funding education and Health Issues for example and there not many donors on the left side of the political spectrum i think hes the only one actually of this magnitude on this side who we have mercer for example at the call brothers on the right side but as far as i have always been known for being really bold and sure about his investment on wall street he is quite the same when it comes to his own day should so he basically has strong opinions and acts accordingly no matter what doubling down is his way of investing and often aiding and leading has found ation it seems the open Society Foundation has been under a lot of pressure recently from hungary to india and as a statement thoros as just doubling down and talking of solid foundations the Federal Reserve has released its snapshot of the us economy whats the outlook. Well yes then you know i think the most interesting and important thing is definitely at the end flights in and the quite interesting thing about inflation is that even if they break on a me and the tightest labor market in years that a little to move the needle on inflation the fed correctly rice the increase in wages and the cost of materials as modest in this report and no one really seems to know why inflation is just remaining on that low level but the fed two Percent Inflation target still appears out of rates so the u. S. Economy defying expectations but not in the way that theyd like so fishmans campbell street to thank you for that. Recent conflict around iraqs oil fields is a fact of the countrys ability to take advantage of its resources baghdad hired British Oil Company b. P. Back in twenty thirteen to draw a plan to exploit fields in the north of the country the deal was put on hold thats the chaos of fighting socalled Islamic State this week iraqs army recovered all fields from Kurdish Forces now the Iraqi Government is turning to b. P. Once again. These oil fields in kirkland biofuel both iraqis and kurds they have now been recovered chewed by the iraqi army the Iraqi Oil Minister is making plans to exploit the fields he asked british oil giant b. P. To help her cook could have as many as nine billion barrels of Recoverable Oil b. P. Is a new here since two thousand and nine has been helping increase production a trailer one of the Worlds Largest oil fields the fact that the oil fields were kupchak by iraqi forces dashes the kurdish dreams of economic selfsufficiency after a vote for independence in september the kirk filled account for more than half of the daily production in the kurdish region. The island nation all fiji is a high risk of rising water levels brought about by Climate Change that pleading for help the head of next months Climate Summit in bonn but theyre also taking direct action creating debt that institutions can buy now with that money fiji hopes to invest in green initiatives and stem the tide at least for now. They arrived by canoe. The islands residents precious documents in hand desperate pleas for help in paper form fiji is on the brink of being completely destroyed by Climate Change and this is the man their Prime Minister who will deliver their pleas to the un Climate Summit in bonn. And hes brought along some ideas of his own two of them. Of course. And on it were put in the work. Green bonds to save such ecological securities are a way of financing environmental and climate protection projects of encouraging investment in things like Renewable Energies so far they only exist in france and japan where most. What is happening is wrong and the level of the people. Oh never have required the success of countries like fiji need investment and to be taken seriously by industrial nations to roll developing and emerging economies the ones with high global c o two emissions yet theyre the ones suffering the most from the resulting Climate Change. And that wraps up another Business Update if you want more you can check us out on twitter and facebook ill be back with more same time same place same. Take a trip to a world of boundless ambition. The young entrepreneurs eager to tackle global challenges. Join should just thats not german entrepreneur award winner two thousand and fifteen as he travels through asia looking for the next big business idea. Big trouble big he was really passionate about because if youre going to stick to this for a long time and its something you dont we like. Its hard to keep on pressing our ten part series founders rally. Starting october twenty third on the d w. 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