Title: International Consultants Ltd
1Andrew Leung
- International Consultants Ltd
A Sustainable China in a Turbulent
World Survival, Adaptation and
Transformation
Andrew K P Leung, SBS, FRSA
A presentation for the TOChina Program
University of Turin, Italy
Wednesday, 5 May, 2010
2Stage is set in 21st Century
- The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, 2005
Walmart Just-In-Time UPS 2 world GDP across the
globe internet sans frontiers (Facebook,
Twitter,LinkedIn etc) - Global value chain migration (Rolls Royce 60
research and 70 components) creative
destruction and world competition (Bear outside
your tent) - Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx,expanding
markets over the entire surface of the globe
,,,,, new wants products of distant lands and
climes universal interdependence of nations - Power shifts into individuals - Cosmocrats
A Future Perfect The Challenge and Hidden
Opportunities of Globalization, John Micklethwait
Adrian Woodridge, 2000 - Three Billion New Capitalists, Clyde Prestowitz,
2005 - Future profits lie in scale, knowledge,
creativity, technology and brands - 1 profit DVD
player 1.65 value of iPod, Google becoming
worlds most profitable - China launched Going Global strategy 2001
- Globalization and Its Discontents, 2002 Making
Globalization Work, 2006, Joseph Stiglitz The
Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith - Global Financial and Economic Crisis and Rising
Protectionism
3The swing of the global pendulum
- National Intelligence Council Report Project
2025 - US leadership capacity weakening (EU fractious) v
rise of BRIC ME - New developing countries alliances e.g. ASEAN
3, SCO pose challenge to old-styled UN, IMF, WB - Global industrialization - geopolitics and
geo-economics of energy, food, water and climate
security - Struggle for development in failing states Arc
of Instability - Chinas dramatic growth Beijing Consensus set
to play a key role in new world order - Emerging Markets lead contributers to world
growth China 27 v US 21 to growth DCs 15 v
US/EU_at_23 world GDP)
Emerging Markets lead contributers to world
growth China 27 v US 21 DCs15 v US/EU_at_23
world GDP)
4Some New Power Brokers
-
- Foreign assets (T) MGI, July 2009
- 2007
2008 2013(est) - Pension Funds 30.4 25
- Mutual Funds 26.2 18.8
- Insurance assets 18.9 16.2
- Oil Producers 5.1 5
8.9 13.2 - Asian SWFs 4.35 4.76 (!)
7.5 8.5 - Hedge Funds 1.9 1.4
1.5 2.4 - Private Equity 0.906 0.938
1 1.2 -
- (!) Increase virtually all due to China
- Total 4.5b _at_day
Net capital outflow from surplus countries
(b, 2006) (Mckinsey Co)
1995 2006 Oil
producers 35 484 East
Asia 133 446 West
Europe 110 308
Rest of World 4 81
____
___ 282
1319
5East Asia dynamics re-defined
- (When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques,
2009) - Complex supply chain centred on China
- ASEAN 3 ACFTA (largest FTA with 2b people)
2003 Treaty of Amity Cooperation Chiang Mai
Initiative (currency swaps)East Asia FTA
Asian Monetary Fund ASEAN 6
Process-oriented Constructivism (Socialization of
Power Influence without Authority) Qin Yaqing
Wei Ling, in Chinas Ascent, Cornell University
Press, 2008) - China now South Koreas largest trading partner
Singapore Philippines Thailand all closer to
China (all formal US allies) - Intra-NE Asia trade (China, Japan, Taiwan 2
Koreas) 52 total 5, ASEAN imports 30-40 p.a. -
- 4 x US aid to Philippines 2 x Indonesia far gt
US to Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar (Chinese navy
access to Indian Ocean) - Increasing Mandarin learning Chinese tourists
- Australia double benefit rising resource export
and cheap imports - Taiwan more accommodating
- Japan - Manufacturing trade gt US, influence lt
Japanese nationalism
6Africa becoming more China-centric
- (When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques,
2009) - FOCAC 2006 Beijing (48 countries 2007-9 Action
Plan 5b Development Fund, 5b preferential
loans credits schools, hospitals, professional
training etc ) - Chinas share of Africas export of selected
commodities - Crude Oil
Metals Wood Cotton - Angola 100
- Sudan 98.8
- Nigeria 88.9
- Congo 85.9
- Gabon 54.8
42.3 - DRC
99.6 - Ghanna
59.8 - SA
46.5 - Cameroon
39.7 - Tanzania
24.3 53.8 - Africas 3rd trading partner (US, France) gt UK
soon 1st - Africa gt 30 of Chinas total oil imports
- Angola gt Saudi Arabia as Chinas largest oil
supplier (15) - More direct flights Africa/China gt few Africa/US
7Threshold of Chinas Renaissance
- (When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques,
2009) - Ranking of economies (Goldman Sachs, 2007)
- 2025
2050 - 1. US (20T) China
(70T) - 2. China (18T)) US
(38T) - 3. Japan (5T) India
(38T) - 4. India
Brazil - 5. Germany
Mexico - 6. Russia
Russia - 7. UK
Indonesia - 8. France
Japan - 9. Brazil
UK - 10. Italy
Germany - 11. Mexico
Nigeria - 12. Korea
France - 13. Canada
Korea - 14. Indonesia
Turkey
- Already EUs and Japans largest trading
partner leading in SE Asia and Africa Latin
Americas 2nd largest trading partner by 2010 - Peoples satisfaction - China 72, UK 44, US
39, France 28, Germany 25 etc - gt 40 m Chinese Disapora
- All roads lead to China ? - Pax Sinica?
8Grand Design v Dengs caution
- Grand Design nationalism,????? (Unhappy China)
2009 - Global Realities, Risks and Constraints
- Internal
- Inequalities, 5 Imbalances, Corruption, Rule of
(gt by) Law, Governance, Checks and Balance,
Environment, Ethnic Harmony, Aging (4-2-1) - Population Burden now _at_ GDP lt 100 countries,
2025/50 _at_ GDP gt Turkey 2050 5.4 (86.4m) of
projected 1.6 b population still in farming - External
- Global military reach, energy and resources,
technological gap, creativity and innovation,
financial expertise, ideas and values, global
institutions, conflict with Western norms - Dangers and Opportunities of Power Transition
Institutionalized International Order gt Security
Dilemma - Chinas Ascent Power, Security, and
the future of International Politics, Robert S.
Ross Zhu Feng (Editors, Cornell University
Press, 2008) Chinas Rise Challenges and
Opportunities, Bergsten, Freeman, Lardy, and
Mitchell, Petersen Institute and CSIS, Washington
DC, 2008 - Dengs 28-word caution ????,????,????,????,????,
???? (in line with conclusions of ???? Study
Project Neoliberal Defensive Realism, Tang
Shiping, in Chinas Ascent, Cornell University
Press, 2008)
9How Open is Chinas Economy?
- Open economy- Closed society? No Pepsi in
Danone, CocaCola v Huiyuan (Anti-Trust?),
Diageo v Shui Jing Fang ??? - Trade 75 GDP (v US lt 40, Japan, India,
Brazil 25 35) - Chinas foreign trade growing faster than GDP
over past 25 yrs - FDI 90b, first amongst developing countries, 3rd
largest in world - Massive IPOs - BoC (9.7b), ICBC (21.9b),
Alibaba (1.5 b, largest Internet IPO v Google
Sinopec (7.3b 100 Swiss Addax Petroleum 2009
China XD Electric (1.5b largest 2010) global
IPO 5.6 b Jan 2010 (only 72 m, 2009) - 4.5 b
or 79 by China. - Private sector 70 economy (Hu Angang)
- Growing consumption Retail 800 b (2006) lt only
US, Japan, gt rest of Asia. 30 global retail
growth 2003-8, 1.3 T by 2012 Worlds largest
car market (13.5 m v 10.9 m in US), 48.7m v 250 m
cars in US. 2009 best selling BYD Multi-hybrid.
Most buyers households lt mileage (Why gasoline
consumption doesnt gel!) - FDI policies -SEZs, tech parks distort market
(China Daily 27.2.08 ) - States Visible Hand RMB, exchange control,
SOEs ( Big Four Banks 34.5 total lending)
macro-adjustment policies. Total loans fell 22
to RMB7.5 T v 95 2009, moderating M2
expansion to 17 2010 v 28 2009. Budget
deficit to be 2.9 GDP 2010, v 2.4 last year.
Target GDP 8 2010 v 8.7 2009 - TFP (inc Tech Efficiency) 4 p.a. v1990 fastest
in world history (UBS report 2009) - Unstable, Unbalanced, Uncoordinated, and
Unsustainable 17TH Party Congress, Premier Wen,
15.03.07. (5 Imbalances Regional, Environmental,
Social, Central-Local, Outward )
10Adam Smith Too little or Too much?
- (Mckinsey Quarterly, 2006) except
- China GDP Lending Financial stock
- SOE Private Bank
deposits Equity GDP 23
52 US 19
34 Lending 35
27 China 72
15 - Equity GDP Corporate Debt
GDP - US 139
US 145 - China 17
China 1 - Public Debt GDP Household Debt
- US 60 (105 by 2012) US
140 - China 18
China 14
11The Triffin Dilemma
- Article by Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor, PBOC
- 1960s USD glut (Marshall Plan exuberant US
economy) led to abandoning the Gold Standard - Triffin Dilemma Conflict of Goals or Interest
between national v global monetary requirements - Reinforced SDRs to be managed by IMF supported
by a pool of currencies SDR-denominated
securities and assets SDRs as medium of
international trade - Unlikely to materialize anytime soon but apparent
support from - Benn Steil, Director of International Economics,
US Council of Foreign Relations - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize laureate and head of
UN Panel - Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Columbia University
and Special Advisor to UN Seccretary-General - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, IMF
- Brazilian President
- Russian Presidential aide
- Subject to Voting Rights adjustment, China
willing to assume more proactive IMF role (a) to
help regulate global finances (b) to address the
Triffin Dilemma (c) to help protect Chinas USD
Savings (d) to build up the RMB as an
international currency for eventual
convertibility
12Getting out of the US Dollar Trap
- The USD Trap (Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor, PBOC hinted at
unofficial USD peg being temporary (FT
6.03.2010) - Three Ways out of the USD (Nomura, 5 March 2010)
- (1) Incremental Diversification out of US
Treasuries (Dec 2009 foreign-held UST dropped
53b of which 34.2 due to China) - (2) Reducing current account surplus (gradual
RMB appreciation, more imports, more
consumption, outward FDI (inc SWF) especially in
resources e.g. -
- Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) 19.5 b in Rio
Tinto - 25 b loan for 15 m tons crude for 20 yrs with
Russias Rosneft and Transneft - 10 b loan for oil deal with Kazakhstan
- 10 b Sinopec deal with Petrobras (20.5.2009)
13MegaTrend 1 Massive Urbanization
- McKinsey Global Institute (Preparing for Chinas
Urban Billion, March 2008) - 1 b urbanites by 2025, 350 m in 221 cities each
gt 1 m population (EU35) - 15 super-cities each gt 25 m population
- 11 hub-and-spoke conurbations each gt 60 m
population - Westward Ho! Most new urbanization to spawn in
currently-less-developed central, north-east and
western provinces - Concentrated mode of urbanization projected to
save 35 of carbon footprint and 2.5 GDP in
government expenditure - A YouTube snapshot
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vcBqsSrPhyz4
- Global implications resources, business
opportunities, experimentation, civil society
14MegaTrend 2 Rapid Mobility
- Extensive inter-provincial highway network 2nd
only to US Interstate in 17 years - Railway (6 of world total length, 25 total
traffic) to increase from 78,000 km to 100,000 km
by 2020 (worlds largest railway expansion since
19th century) - More city conurbations to be linked by integrated
transport infrastructure e.g. 1.64b
sea-spanning bridge over Hangzhou Bay linking
Shanghai to Ningbo and other cities in the
Provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu with a combined
population of 72.4 million - Global implications rapidly developing Chinese
middle-class, changing lifestyles, vast supply
chains
15MegaTrend 3 Rise of the middle-class
- Combined urban disposable income of _at_annual
household income gt RMB 100,001 to 200,000 to grow
from 0.1 of total 2005 to 36.4 by 2025 (Serving
the New Chinese Consumer, The McKinsey Quarterly,
2006 Special Edition). - Largely come from 100 m single-child
generation, inc post-80s, post-90s, and 21st
century new-comers - Luxury goods sales already 12 by value of
worlds total, to grow to 33 by 2015 - Car ownership to expand from 11/1,000 towards
world average 120/1,000 (ltUS 500/1,000) 500 m
cars by 2050 (Goldman Sachs) - Young entrepreneurs to jump from current 300,000
- Average 50,000 USD millionaires to be added
annually - A more consumer-oriented economy emerging in
coming decades - Global implications reducing over-reliance on
exports, mitigating economic imbalance with the
US.
16MegaTrend 4 Largest moderate-income economy
- China gt US by 2027/28 and gt by 75 by 2050 (when
India US) (Goldman Sachs, The Economist,
30.6.2007) - Chinas _at_GDP ranks lt 100 in the world some
poorest countries in Africa. By 2050, _at_GDP
middle-income nation in Asia or Eastern Europe - Aging population profile ( gt 30 to be aged 60 or
over by 2050) Subsidized voluntary basic pension
plan for rural population to grow from 60 in
2010 to 80 by 2015 - Legacy of One-Child Policy, 4-2-1 phenomenon,
relaxed if both parents single children, likely
to be relaxed further - Still gt 100 m with lt 1 a day v 800 m such in
1978. Poverty to shrink significantly in coming
decades - Global implications China will get old before
getting rich. Needs a benign internal and
external environment to consolidate an economic
foundation to face social and financial burden of
a looming aged profile
17MegaTrend 5 Quiet Green Revolution
- Green Great Wall 4,480 km forestation absorbing
8 or 500m tons emissions p.a.- 20 or 1 b tons
absorption by 2010. - Small coal-power plants of lt 10m kW capacity
closed by 2007. Most of lt 50m kW likely to be
cleared or expanded within a decade. - To invest 2.3 trillion in energy development
2001-30, inc 200b to increase renewable energies
from 8.3 to 10 of primary energy by 2010 and
15 by 2020, 7 to 10 p.a. by 2010 and 20
p.a. by 2020, inc hydro-electric, nuclear,
coal-seam gas, biomass, wind, solar, terrestrial
heat and wave energies (IEA) - Hydro-electric power worlds first in installed
capacity 145 m kW and 482.9 billion kWh power
generation - Total of 110 million square meters of solar
panels by far the worlds largest - Wind power has increased 7 x to gt 6 m kW, 5th
largest - 2 nuclear power stations p.a. for the next 15
years. - BYD, (Shenzhen) introduced 15.12.2008 worlds
first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric
vehicle _at_US22,000, range 100 km on electric
engine. Miles XS500, range 120 miles at 80 mph,
to launch in Tianjin in 2009 (Iain Carson and
Vijay V Vaitheeswaran, Zoom The Global Race to
Fuel the Car of the Future, Hachette Book Group,
2007) - Dongtan eco-city concept of sustainable housing
and urban design on the cards for new cities,
towns and villages. Eco-friendly lifestyle
catching on with rising middle-class. Methane gas
from human and animal waste in villages - Law on the Circular Economy effective 1.1.2009
mandating energy, water, and material recycling,
conservation and emission reduction supported by
tax breaks and fines. - Global implications an ecologically-conscious
society with 1/5 mankind worlds car industries
to be revolutionized
18MegaTrend 6 Science, Technology and Innovation
- Change-1 Moon Probe (2007), Shenzhou-7 Space
Walk (2008). Planned Tiantong-1 small space
station in 2010 -11 docking with Shenzhou 8, 9,
10 Lunar Rover on moon surface 2013-17 Lunar
Rover exploration and return 2017-20 planned
satellite Yinghuo-1( Russian Phobos-Grunt) to
fly towards Mars 2009 possible participation in
European Space Agencys Aurora manned Mars
exploration program 2030 - 5m university graduates p.a. mainly engineers and
technologists, top in nos.scientific papers. Vast
majority no productive research. Still no
home-grown Nobel Prize laureates. Committee
representation, let alone chairmanship, extremely
low in world-class scientific organizations - But fast developing technologies in energy and
water resources, environmental conservation,
proprietary technologies, life sciences,
aeronautics, and ocean sciences - Various silicon valleys, leading science parks e,
g. Beijings Zhongguancun and high-tech cities
like Hefei, Anhui. 40 of overseas post-doctoral
students in US are from China. Growing numbers of
scientific returnees to seek greener pastures - International corporate R D centres 750 (100 in
India), 35 v UK 47 and US 59 - Shenyang Aircraft Corporation joint ventures in
assembly and fuselage manufacture with Boeing,
Airbus and Bombardier. May 2008, Commercial
Aircraft Corporation of China formed with
capitalization of 2.7 billion to compete with
Boeing and Airbus. Chinas home-made regional jet
ARJ21 maiden flight on 28.11.2008 with an order
book gt 100 aircraft - Global implications Chinas aerospace industry,
including commercial satellites, is set to grow
by leaps and bounds. International space program
cooperation. Growing competition in worlds
aircraft industries. Advances in life and
environmental sciences and commercialization
19MegaTrend 7 China goes more Global
- 3 world top 5 by market capitalization -
PetroChina (1trillion, 2 x ExxonMobile), ICBC
(worlds largest bank), and ChinaMobile - Chinese corporations SWFs taking equity in
financial and energy companies ICBC 20 in
Standard Bank, Africas largest bank CHINALCO
(Aluminum Corp of China) planned 30 stake in
bauxite mine of Rio Tinto Geely bought Volvo
from Ford for 1.8b and majority stake in
Magnanese Bronze (London Black Cab) - Controlled outflow - 10b (Deutsche Bank)
Liberalising QDII - 50 overseas investment quota
for approved equity funds - 4 of Big Five state-controlled banks have
embraced foreign equity HSBC 19.9 of BoCom BoA
10 of CCB Goldman Sachs 10 of ICBC RBSs
(recently divested) 10 of BoC. Local
incorporation of foreign banks Citibank, HSBC,
SCB, BEA - China to grow RMB private equity Wu Xiaoling,
Dep Gov, PBoC, 2007 China M A Annual
Conference, Tianjin. Launch of stock index
futures approved in principle (08.01.2010) - RMB as storage of value and stable means of
exchange. RMB-denominated transactions and
financial products more acceptable for
China-related businesses. Eventual full
convertibility. - China to build 3 transnational high-speed
(200-350 km/hr) rail links by 2025 (a) Kunming to
SE Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia,
Singapore) (b) Urumqi to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, - Germany?) (c) Heilongjiang
Siberia W Europe (BJ/Lon in 2 days) (SCMP 8
March 2010) -
20MegaTrend 8 - Defense
- Historical trauma with continental-sized borders
and coastline anxious to protect territorial
integrity (including Taiwan) choke-points of
life-blood energy supply - Total defense expenditure (2/3 for personnel,
training and maintenance) lt UK, Japan, France,
and Germany v US expenditure gt rest of world
combined. As GDP, much lt UK, Russia and France
v US (Chinas 2006 National Defense White Paper) - In light of US repeatedly rejection of call from
160 countries, China included, to de-militarize
space, China showed capability of killing moving
satellite as space defense deterrence - Already a nuclear power, only major country
without a single aircraft carrier, doubt about
cost- benefit of blue-water navy regional
diplomatic interests giving way to clear signal
(Defense Minster, 20.3.09) - Likely to to keep up with modern military
technology for more cost-effective credible
deterrence, including submarines and asymmetric
warfare - Global implications need for more transparency
to ease ungrounded fears (China needs benign
environment to continue survival) scope for more
international cooperation for peace-keeping and
fight against piracy
21MegaTrend 9 Building a Harmonious World
- Best defense is having no enemies Confucian
Harmony Also joining no blocs. - Simply cannot afford to be aggressive. Need for
benign environment to build solid foundation -
numerous challenges and contradictions looming
aging population profile - US - Leadership accepted except where national
interests undermined, but differences on Chinas
internal issues and international approach to
conflict resolution remain - EU- main trading partner and plenty of scope for
economic, trade, investment, technological, and
scientific cooperation, but differences on
Chinas internal issues remain, less so v US - Russia Energy partner and balance against
uni-polarity - ME Main oil supply source eager to see more
stability (geopolitics) but unlikely to intervene
in ME politics - ASEAN and the Asia community growing importance
in global supply chain geopolitical advantages
in the Asia-Pacific - Central Asia - Shanghai Cooperation Organization
harmony in neighboring region and alternative
energy supply route national security - Africa for 3rd world cooperation and
trade/investment in resources - Latin America also 3rd world support
Venezuela (energy support in US backyard)
Brazil (soybeans and resources)
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23MegaTrend 10 Civil Society
- Vibrant civil society rapidly developing, e.g.
spontaneous response to Sichuan earthquake - Quarter of a million local NGOs campaign for
consumer rights environment the
under-privileged - 80 to 100 million practising Christians (Jesus in
Beijing, David Aikman, 2003) - Vibrant 36 million blogs.
- More public hearings for major polices, often
mandated by law - Local elections held for all village and county
chiefs and urban neighborhood committees - More party secretaries and senior officials
monitor public feedback through the internet - CPC government for the people, law-based
governance, official accountability, public
transparency, public consultation, fight against
corruption, more freedom of expression as
instruments for legitimacy. Direct entry to
government through public examinations.
Competitive progression to high office. Confucian
ideal of Mandate of Heaven shi ren xinzhe, shi
tianxia (He who loses the hearts and minds of
the people, loses the world). -
- CPC think-tank on reform of political system
post-17th Party Congress NPC and CPPCC,
centralizing power to appoint judges in the
provinces (Storming the Citadel, Professor Zhou
Tianyong et al, November 2007). - Global network of Confucius Institutes,
ultra-modern CCTV English channels, ancient
culture and architecture, UNESCO-designated world
heritage sites, colorful arts and customs all
attracting an ever-mounting number of foreign
tourists trade, business, professional,
academic, and educational visitors from all
corners of world
24A roadmap for Sustainable Industrial Development
- State Council, October 2008
- Value-added hi-tech industries 5 IT,
bio-eng, aeronautics, space aviation, new energy
materials, marine industries - Energy efficiency, conservation emission
reduction in processes, projects and buildings
restrict energy-and-emission intensive industries
(coal 77.2 1980 - 69.4 2007)Energy Law in
draft 12th FYP 2011-15 - Renewable energies - nuclear, hydro, solar, wind,
biomass, marsh gas, solid liquid bio-fuels as
primary energy by up to 10 coal-bed gas up to
10 bcm - Less input, consumption, emission high
efficiency, including energy optimization,
energy conservation and eco-preservation - Concrete progress building water-conserving
society complete anti-flood systems large rivers
drought resistance of farmlands - Recycling Economy - Circular Economy Promotion
Law 29.8.08 - Accelerate service sector - value-added
contribution to GDP by 3 -
- S T international cooperation C but
Differentiated R - State Council February, 2009
25Chinas Green Opportunity
- McKinsey Quarterly, May 2009
- 2005 GHG emissions mgt CO2 equivalent
6.8 - Unrestrained growth
16.1 - 2030 frozen technology scenario
22.9 - Policy reduction (policies, targets, tech
development) - 8.4 - 2030 Policy scenario
14.5 - Full technical abatement potential
- 6.7 - 2030 Abatement scenario
7.8 - Green Power 2005 Coal (81) 2030 Coal
(34) hydro (19), nuclear (16), wind (12), solar
(8), gas (8), other (4) - Green Transport 330m cars by 2030 gt US
100 green cars by 2020 oil import less 30-40 - Green Industry 1/3 of energy consumed 44
emissions technology, efficiency, standards,
conservation, recycling (e.g. coal-bed methane),
agric waste, CCS - Green Buildings eco-villages, towns and
cities natural gas, CFL (compact fluorescent
light-bulbs) green designs, efficient heating
and ventilation - Green Ecosystems Forest coverage being
raised from 11 to 20 by 2010 regulated grazing
widespread use of agricultural methane (already
23m homes) sustainable agriculture land
management, desertification and water management
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27Lessons from Financial and Ecological Collapse
- Survival, Adaptation, and Transformation
- Global Financial and Economic Crisis
- Overleveraging (1.4 quadrillion debt, some still
underneath the carpet) - Excessive fundamentalism
- Adam Smiths missing Visible Hand
- Global economic imbalance
- Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson, 1999
- Chrysler, Volvo, Magnanese Bronze v GM, GE, IBM,
R J Reynolds, BYD, Suntech, Alibaba - Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed, Jared Diamond, Penguin Books, 2009 - Easter Island Splendid isolation, 1400 m from
nearest habitable island first settled 900 A.D,
original pristine paradise, Giant Palm (80 ft
tall, 6 ft diameter) statue (moai) production
peaked 1200-1500, _at_up to 65 ft tall 270 tons
accumulative deforestation collapse of food
chain by 1700 population crashing wars, all
statues toppled by 1884, today only 2 small trees
and 2 small shrubs left - Greenland Inuit v Norse Adapted sewn-skin kayak
harpoons with bladder floats as efficient
hunting machines for resource-rich whales Norse
tied to European origin church, walrus tusks for
income (wiped out by new supply of ivory from new
colonial era) -
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- International Consultants Ltd
Thank you
Andrew K P Leung, SBS,
FRSA www.andrewleunginternationalconsul
tants.com