1) partner piece and update to 7 rules.’
1a) what working with china can do for you — industrialization, modernization, one time infrastructure, cheap loans, resources for industry, tech-up your scientists, engineers and designers.
2) Why things have changed – bilateral, post-Ukraine, de-dollarization,
2a) understanding china’s domestic issues — up the value chain, needs resources including food, excess construction/development capacity
3) China’s non-negotiable requirements — Taiwan, Tibet, staying out of core disputes like the south china sea and India/China disputes
4) What it will cost you: good relations with West, reliable Western financial, goods and military access.
5) What types of deals to cut
— bilateral you do this, we do that
— bilateral we give you resources or low chain goods, you help us move up the chain
— large one time infrastructure projects which are designed to be maintainable by you, including during global collapse (climate change projects, major roads, railways, etc… try and find stuff other than asphalt.
6) How to structure deals
— parnterships where your people make it for them, not branch plants — either your companies or joint owned companies where you have 51%. Chinese come over to set up, but managers, engineers include yours and trainees. They are to train their successors.
— go for as many lower level parts manufacturing and repair as possible.
7) Exchanges — your students and people to their universities and their companies on exchanges, with expectation of returning to your country.