#PRC: Lawfare against Astrazeneca? Andrew Collier Orient Capital Research Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research and author of new book, China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants, on this: https://www.reuters.com/
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Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research and author of new book, China's Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants,
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-says-its-china-operations-president-under-investigation-2024-10-30/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Gordon Chang at Gordon D. Chang, my colleague and co-host, |
| 0:10.7 | and we're very pleased to welcome the author of China's Technology War, why Beijing took down its tech giants. |
| 0:17.3 | Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research. |
| 0:21.8 | Andrew, a very good day to you, the presidential election and the markets in general, |
| 0:28.1 | but also looking very carefully at some of the disruptions through the markets. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm looking at AstraZeneca, for example. |
| 0:35.0 | Can you generalize what you expect the Asian markets to do in this news of |
| 0:41.7 | Mr. Trump elected again? Is there going to be any significant change or business as usual? Good day to you, |
| 0:47.7 | Andrew. Good day. Well, I do think that there'll be some anticipation that tax cuts in the near term |
| 0:53.4 | could be positive |
| 0:54.2 | for the corporate sector, which is obviously good for earnings. However, on the other hand, |
| 1:00.3 | we obviously have the geopolitical considerations that Trump is likely to institute very sharp |
| 1:07.0 | increases in tariffs against Chinese goods. |
| 1:11.5 | And, of course, a lot of companies listed in Hong Kong are tied to the Chinese economy. |
| 1:16.9 | So that is going to be the main concern. |
| 1:19.3 | And I would expect the markets, they've priced a lot of this in because there has been |
| 1:23.3 | expectations that Trump would win anyway. |
| 1:25.4 | But there was going to be concerns going forward |
| 1:27.8 | that will affect the markets. Gordon, you have a question. Yeah, tariffs are important for China, |
| 1:33.5 | but tariffs are also important for countries in the periphery and the question of places like |
| 1:40.0 | Malaysia and others. What are they thinking? Because it seems to me that tariffs are important for |
| 1:47.5 | them and maybe even more important for them than for places like China. Well, a lot of these |
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