{"id":58896,"date":"2023-10-02T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/beijings-mixed-messages-leave-businesses-questioning-investments-in-china"},"modified":"2023-10-02T07:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T22:01:07","slug":"beijings-mixed-messages-leave-businesses-questioning-investments-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58896","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s mixed messages leave businesses \u2018questioning\u2019 investments in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A renewed focus on national security coupled with rising geopolitical tensions has damaged confidence in the private sector<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/11\/have-we-reached-peak-china-how-the-booming-middle-class-hit-a-brick-wall\">Peak China? How the middle class hit a brick wall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In July 2021, Chinese markets braced for a buzz. Syngenta, the Swiss agritech giant, filed for a $10bn-dollar listing on Shanghai\u2019s STAR Market, a tech-focused stock exchange.<\/p>\n<p>It should have been a win-win for China; Syngenta said it would invest some of the new financing into agricultural technology, promising an injection of cash into an important sector. But, more than two years later, Syngenta still hasn\u2019t listed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/beijings-mixed-messages-leave-businesses-questioning-investments-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renewed focus on national security coupled with rising geopolitical tensions has damaged confidence in the private sectorPeak China? How the middle class hit a brick wallIn July 2021, Chinese markets braced for a buzz. Syngenta, the Swiss agritech gi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58897,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896\/revisions\/58897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}