Inside China Business – Kevin Walmsly
Top VC’s from Western firms and investment banks recently toured Chinese companies in the clean energy industry. After just days, they concluded that China’s advances across the sector make competition impossible, and are pulling funds from Western startups. They hope to focus now on partnership opportunities with Chinese firms who already dominate the technology and manufacturing, and enjoy access to China’s deep supply chains and logistics. But that model will also also prove difficult, as China’s entire economic system is designed to destroy rent-seeking profits.