COVER STORY

US-CHINA

Why Washington should make a deal with China on joint ventures

“China’s continuing need for access to advanced markets gives the United States an opportunity not merely to restrict Chinese firms but to negotiate from a position of strength.”

By Mitchell Presnick and Aaron Glasserman

The authors argue that structuring inbound Chinese investment in the US as joint ventures is a better alternative than barring Chinese investment piecemeal or altogether. The gains from such joint ventures are substantial, they say, and the US has leverage to negotiate based on China’s need for overseas markets and its challenges in shifting to a consumer-led economic model.  

ECONOMICS

Africa becomes a little more Asian

By Joe Studwell

Joe Studwell, author of How Africa Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Last Developmental Frontier is legendary for his journalism on China and Asia. In 2013, he turned from two decades of focus on East Asia, after publishing the highly praised How Asia Works. While restoring a house in central Italy he began working on the “world’s last developmental frontier,” Africa. This concept underlies his most recent book, “How Africa Works,” in which he looks at how four African economies – Botswana, Mauritiius, Ethiopia and Rwanda. 

US-CHINA

Yan Xuetong’s exam against bad geopolitics

By Wang Zichen

In the May-June issue of AmCham HK e-Magazine, Zhengyu ‘Z’ Huang, former president of the Committee of 100, wrote about the importance of evidence-based dialogue in US-China relations. Wang Zichen’s opinion essay offers a similar perspective from the classroom of one of China’s leading professors of international relations, Yan Xuetong. Originally published in East is Read, the article is reprinted with permission.

PEOPLE

The art advisor making Hong Kong a “swimmable city”

How Edie Hu juggles ocean marathons and her art business

By Edith Terry

Hong Kong is one of the few major cities where mainstream professionals can do their office jobs by day and train on its highly accessible trail system and waters on weekends and after hours. Few take both their day jobs and their passion for sports to the level of 51-year-old Chinese American Edie Hu. AmCham HK asks her how she manages to do it all.  

CHAMBER

AmCham HK’s 2026 doorknock to Washington DC

From June 21–25, AmCham HK made its annual Doorknock visit to Washington, DC, with a 14-person delegation, led by Chairman David Butts. This year’s visit carried particular significance as it took place just one week before the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, a month after President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing in May, and just three months before the September visit to the US by President Xi Jinping.    These events have kept US-China relations at the forefront of Washington’s policy and political discussions.

CHAMBER

An American business boot camp for kids

AmCham’s Mini Business America (MBA) Camps 2026

How young do you have to be to start thinking about a business career? It’s never too soon, in the view of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. Over the past two years, Hong Kong’s largest international business organization and its members have organized weeklong seminars where kids between the ages of roughly 12 to 15, in the first year of high school, get out of the classroom to meet with top executives and see the trading floors, data centers, and manufacturing processes behind the logos.