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Of InterestDavid Mahon: China, a country 'full of DeepSeeks,' now sees NZ as 'a country of diplomatic infidelity'Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visiting India before China could be seen as an insult in China, Beijing-based New Zealander David Mahon says. But he says China's recently announced strategic partnership with the Cook Islands, through which NZ was kept in the dark, shouldn't be viewed as insult to, or provocation of, NZ.Mahon, who is Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management and has lived in China since 1984, spoke to interest.co.nz in a new episode of the Of Interest podcast.Luxon, who before the 2023 election said achieving a free trade agreement with India w...
2025-02-1937 min
Economy WatchDavid Mahon: China, a country 'full of DeepSeeks,' now sees NZ as 'a country of diplomatic infidelity'Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visiting India before China could be seen as an insult in China, Beijing-based New Zealander David Mahon says. But he says China's recently announced strategic partnership with the Cook Islands, through which NZ was kept in the dark, shouldn't be viewed as insult to, or provocation of, NZ.Mahon, who is Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management and has lived in China since 1984, spoke to interest.co.nz in a new episode of the Of Interest podcast.Luxon, who before the 2023 election said achieving a free trade agreement with India w...
2025-02-1937 min
Economy WatchDavid Mahon: China's post-Covid hangover, NZ flirting with joining AUKUS & moreChina's economy remains mired in a post-Covid hangover like much of the rest of the world, but the technology, catering and tourism sectors are encouraging, according to David Mahon.Mahon, the Beijing-based Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management, spoke to interest.co.nz in the latest episode of our Of Interest podcast.The relative weakness of the Chinese economy, compared to its rapid expansion of recent decades, amid ongoing concerns about the property market and deflation, has been making international headlines. Mahon says some of what's going on isn't dissimilar to elsewhere in the wor...
2024-03-0234 min
Of InterestDavid Mahon: China's post-Covid hangover, NZ flirting with joining AUKUS & moreChina's economy remains mired in a post-Covid hangover like much of the rest of the world, but the technology, catering and tourism sectors are encouraging, according to David Mahon.Mahon, the Beijing-based Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management, spoke to interest.co.nz in the latest episode of our Of Interest podcast.The relative weakness of the Chinese economy, compared to its rapid expansion of recent decades, amid ongoing concerns about the property market and deflation, has been making international headlines. Mahon says some of what's going on isn't dissimilar to elsewhere in the wor...
2024-03-0234 min
Economy WatchDavid Mahon: How tensions with the US are a factor dampening Chinese consumer confidenceThe Chinese people are very concerned about their country's tense relationship with the United States and it's a factor in weak consumer confidence, says Beijing-based David Mahon.Mahon, a New Zealander who has lived in China since 1984, is Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management. He spoke to interest.co.nz in the latest episode of our Of Interest podcast.Mahon says during a recent visit to a mountain village in Yunnan Province, one of the more remote places in China, he had dinner with local officials. This highlighted worry about ongoing tensions with the US....
2023-09-1857 min
Of InterestDavid Mahon: How tensions with the US are a factor dampening Chinese consumer confidenceThe Chinese people are very concerned about their country's tense relationship with the United States and it's a factor in weak consumer confidence, says Beijing-based David Mahon.Mahon, a New Zealander who has lived in China since 1984, is Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management. He spoke to interest.co.nz in the latest episode of our Of Interest podcast.Mahon says during a recent visit to a mountain village in Yunnan Province, one of the more remote places in China, he had dinner with local officials. This highlighted worry about ongoing tensions with the US....
2023-09-1857 min
Of InterestDavid Mahon: The end of Covid-zero and the Chinese economy 'beginning to really move again'After their Government's "clumsily conceived and executed lurch" away from its zero-Covid policy, the Chinese people are "back to work with real energy," says David Mahon.Mahon, the Beijing-based Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management, spoke to interest.co.nz in the latest episode of our Of Interest podcast."China has to come some distance still to get away from the fear of this virus, the fear it may return. I'm sure that when we get into the autumn there'll be considerable concern amongst a lot of people. Nonetheless China has come through this r...
2023-02-1048 min
Of InterestDavid Mahon: What's going on in China's economyAgainst the backdrop of a sweltering summer, China's Covid-zero policy rumbles on, the country's commercial property sector teeters, and youth unemployment soars.To talk about all these issues and more, I spoke to Beijing-based David Mahon, Managing Director of Mahon China Investment Management, for the latest episode of interest.co.nz's Of Interest Podcast.On the weather Mahon says it's China's hottest summer since records began in 1961, and has exceeded anything he has experienced in the almost 40 years he has lived in China.It has also been dry leading to "a complete collapse" o...
2022-12-0647 min