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Belt and Road Weekly Investor Intelligence, #27
Belt and Road Weekly Investor Intelligence, #27 May 4, 2021 Posted by China Briefing Reading Time: 3 minutes
Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Welcome to this week’s issue of China Briefing’s Belt & Road Initiative Weekly Investor Intelligence round up.
In this week’s issue, we look at how potential decoupling between the United States and China has taken a significant step forward through the introduction of a new US ‘Strategic Competition’ bill. We assess China’s response to this strategic decoupling amid speedy ratification progress of the RCEP free trade agreement, examine how Double Tax Treaties can reduce China tax burdens, and see how Russia and China are both de-dollarizing in favor of the Euro. This week’s briefing also tracks how Russia-Vietnam agricultural trade is developing due to the Vietnam-Eurasian Economic Union free trade agreement and we take a look at hi-tech developments among Central