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feature: China’s retail revolution hots up
According to a report by China Policy, a firm that monitors and analyses Chinese government policy, the new tax regime merely formalised 'ecommerce trade under the import tax system'. China Policy said the new regime was meant to address imports that were overwhelming the postal and parcel delivery systems, circumventing quality controls and slipping through 'inadequate quarantine supervision for milk powder, food and nutritional supplements entering China.'
The Australian
China trade: exporters weigh new import rules
China Policy, a leading analytical agency established in Beijing by Australians David Kelly and Philippa Jones, says in a paper about to be published and made available to The Australian, that while it may have been portrayed otherwise in Australia, 'the new tax regime for direct retail imports is not a strike against foreign exporters, but a regulatory lever to build markets, and develop logistics chains and consumer protections'.
The Australian
‘chairman of everything’: Is China’s President Xi making like Mao?
The Australian research director of China policy, David Kelly, a visiting professor at Peking University, says those who fear a cult of Xi driving a new cultural revolution would do well to ponder the fate of Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), who succeeded Sun Yat-sen to become republican China’s second president, and then had himself enthroned as the Hongxian Emperor.
Voice of America
Chinese companies to increase foreign firm acquisitions
'The basic thinking in China is to encourage its major business groups to make money overseas, and bring back the profits in a sort of round trip at this time when the country is going through an economic slowdown,' said David Kelly, head of the research firm China Policy.
SBS News
Chinese journalist resigns amid government clampdown on media
Australian policy consultant David Kelly runs Beijing-based thinktank China Policy. He said the government had always had strict control of the media, but the public’s attitude toward it is changing.
ABC Saturday Extra
China’s 5–year plan
China Policy's David Kelly says the country’s leaders want to ‘digitise the China dream’ to achieve a ‘moderately prosperous society’ in the next half-decade. But it comes at the same time as troubling concerns over censorship and growing authoritarianism are also evident.
The Diplomat
the gamble behind Xi Jinping’s more restrictive media policy
As David Kelly of the China Policy consultancy told the Financial Times, Ren represents a 'trend in society which is totally fed up' with Xi’s divisive and repressive leadership style, and is not afraid to speak out.
Trouw
flashy slogans for outdated ideas[Dutch]
According to Charles Horne, economic research manager at China Policy, a think tank in Beijing , these delays are due to disagreements over the leadership's policy direction, saying 'the messages from above are often diffuse, there is no unified front.'
Financial Times
heat rises on China tycoon Ren Zhiqiang
David Kelly, director of research at consultancy China Policy, said the affair had shocked Chinese society. 'He’s crossed a line which is not just disrespectful to the emperor,' he said. 'He represents a trend in society which is totally fed up. I was at a dinner party last night and the tone was disbelief.'
South China Morning Post
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Beijing on mission to pressure China on North Korea’s nuclear tests
Benjamin Herscovitch, a research manager at Beijing-based consultancy China Policy, said Kerry’s effort was unlikely to persuade China to change its North Korea policy.
Al Jazeera