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How can we understand the next phase of China’s economic trajectory?

Is Finance Dividing Us?

June 24, 2026
11:30–12:30 (Asia/Shanghai time zone)

About this session

From the growing use of the renminbi in cross-border transactions to the rise of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), China is creating its own financial infrastructure that is increasingly competing with the long-established Western system. As governments and companies consider their relationships in competing geoeconomic blocs, will they have to choose a financial side? This...
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Speakers

VC
Victor L. L. Chu
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
First Eastern Investment Group
RH
Robin Harding
Asia Editor
Financial Times
AM
Ana Fernanda Maiguashca
President
Private Competitiveness Council
PM
Paul Chan Mo-po
Financial Secretary
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)
AS
Ashor Nick Sarupen
Deputy Minister of Finance
Ministry of Finance of South Africa

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