Duncan Clark

🕶️ New episode of #DuncansDispatch - this time from 沖縄 Okinawa 🌺 and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures 👓

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Good to join from Beijing another Duncan - Duncan Hewitt - on his podcast 'China in Context' for SOAS University of London to chat China tech, AI and all the rest...

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Rest of World Welcomes Gordon Saft as Next Publisher It’s a big day at Rest of World, as we share the news that Gordon Saft will become our next Publisher. Gordon brings a wealth of experience across media, technology and innovation.

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Jack Ma Returns With a Vengeance to ‘Make Alibaba Great Again’ China’s most recognizable entrepreneur is back, making bold bets and pushing AI.

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What China wants from Europe As the US abandons the world order it built, China builds its own — how should Europe respond?

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Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers

Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)

Looking forward to co-hosting in Paris the inaugural China Summer Summit on July 9th with new Asia Society France Co-Chair Lionel de Saint-Exupéry and event co-organizers Salzburg Global and ASPI's Center for China Analysis.

Great line-up with more to come! Email rnahas@asiasociety.org for info.

"Eddie is winning plaudits internally for having trimmed the old and built the new. Jack [Ma] and Joe [Tsai] ultimately made the decision to bet on him and it's paying off"

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Alibaba founder Jack Ma returns, 5 years after largely disappearing from public view NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Duncan Clark about the return of Jack Ma, founder of online Chinese retailer Alibaba. The tech exec had gone quiet after comments critical of China in 2020.

In other news... sharing thoughts this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition on the significance of Jack Ma's return to a greater degree of prominence in China

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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

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A point the great @sabfis3.bsky.social was making to me in Berlin a couple of days ago. See also her forthcoming book - “Chauvinism”

Rest of World welcomes Duncan Clark to our Board of Directors We are thrilled to announce that Duncan Clark has joined the Rest of World Board of Directors. Duncan is the Chairman of BDA, an investment advisory firm he founded in 1994. After four years at Morgan...

Excited to join the Board of Rest of World, which with c. 86% of the population outside the West is a big Rest :) restofworld.org/inside/rest-...

Wonderful 'Laowai Lounge' 老外饭局 2nd edition tonight from @asiasocietyfrance.bsky.social at the amazing Imperial Treasure Paris

After the rain, inspecting the Palais Royal and the Louvre...

Here comes the Son! (Masayoshi that is) - by FT Editor Lionel Barber in his engrossing new book 'Gambling Man' about SoftBank's founder.

Hosted by Asia Society France and the Comité d'Échanges Franco-Japonais + Essec.

Grab your seat - or your Zoom link - here.

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The U.S. Chinese immigrants running Temu shipping centers from their homes To speed up delivery and dodge a crackdown on shipments from China, e-commerce companies are turning to so-called “family warehouses.”

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