A closing China meets a scrambling West—and the balance of power looks different up close. We sit down with our Shanghai-based correspondent, Steve Croll to unpack how the city that once courted foreign CEOs now moves confidently without them, and why the assumptions that guided two decades of outsourcing no longer hold. From Hong Kong’s electric past to today’s tighter controls, the story tracks a deliberate strategy: master the tech, shift management in-house, then narrow the aperture for o...
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A closing China meets a scrambling West—and the balance of power looks different up close. We sit down with our Shanghai-based correspondent, Steve Croll to unpack how the city that once courted foreign CEOs now moves confidently without them, and why the assumptions that guided two decades of outsourcing no longer hold. From Hong Kong’s electric past to today’s tighter controls, the story tracks a deliberate strategy: master the tech, shift management in-house, then narrow the aperture for o...
Episode 36- A Rainy Paris Day Becomes A Tour Of Europe’s Existential Crisis
The Greenfield Report with Henry R. Greenfield
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1 month ago
Episode 36- A Rainy Paris Day Becomes A Tour Of Europe’s Existential Crisis
Start with a grand Paris weekend—the thunder of the organ at a renewed Notre Dame, crowds winding through centuries of art—and watch it flicker into something more fragile as the TGV grinds to a halt. That sudden stall becomes our window into a tougher story: a Europe struggling with integration, security, and a welfare model built for a different era. We unpack how protests at Charles de Gaulle and a brazen Louvre heist expose brittle public systems, then widen the lens to immigration polic...
The Greenfield Report with Henry R. Greenfield
A closing China meets a scrambling West—and the balance of power looks different up close. We sit down with our Shanghai-based correspondent, Steve Croll to unpack how the city that once courted foreign CEOs now moves confidently without them, and why the assumptions that guided two decades of outsourcing no longer hold. From Hong Kong’s electric past to today’s tighter controls, the story tracks a deliberate strategy: master the tech, shift management in-house, then narrow the aperture for o...
