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  Tariffs

  Permira closes Greater China offices to focus on India

  April 23, 2025

  PE deals in China have slowed with only $4.2 billion transacted so far this year

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  Private Equity

  PE sponsors consider alternatives to China-plus-one supply chain strategy

  April 11, 2025

  President Trump’s 90-day pause on most tariffs, China’s retaliatory measures and evolving supply chain risks force a strategic rethink in private equity.

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  VC Exits

  Trump bumps TikTok sale deadline by 75 days

  April 4, 2025

  The social media platform was scheduled to go dark again on Friday night.

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  Private Equity

  TikTok’s past investors may save its future in the US

  April 3, 2025

  Here’s a list of all of the PE and VC shops that invested in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, and those who want in.

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  AI

  As SF Bay Area eats up 52% of all AI and ML VC dollars, foreign VCs warn of waste

  March 14, 2025

  At HumanX, panelists warned of wasteful spending and the need for investors to expand their geographic horizons.

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  IPO

  Why the sheen is coming off Shein’s upcoming London IPO

  February 10, 2025

  The retailer is said to be cutting its IPO target after getting hit by tax rule revisions.

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  China

  How DeepSeek could spell trouble for LLM startup valuations

  January 27, 2025

  A Chinese competitor to OpenAI, DeepSeek, has thrown AI markets for a loop.

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  Politics

  What happens if TikTok goes dark

  January 14, 2025

  Content creators are joining RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, as they prepare for the TikTok ban

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  Cross-Border Deals

  The big 3: How Asia’s biggest markets will shape dealmaking in 2025

  January 14, 2025

  Japan, China and India will continue to dominate the region’s major private market investment themes in the year ahead

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  Weekend Analysis

  China’s VC future hangs in the balance

  January 9, 2025

  Domestic and geopolitical headwinds have put China’s VC market in crisis.

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  Private Equity

  How can managers stand out in Greater China’s liquidity drought?

  September 18, 2024

  GPs’ ability to open up new sources of capital and generate distributions is crucial in the current environment.

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  China

  5 charts: Private market dealmaking tumbles in Greater China

  September 17, 2024

  The country’s VC and PE markets have suffered significant drops in dealmaking with neither projected to reach last year’s levels.

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  Asia

  Alibaba-backed Baichuan raises $691M as China seeks to catch up on generative AI

  July 25, 2024

  Baichuan, a Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, has secured a $2.8 billion valuation.

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  Limited Partners

  USC endowment chief weighs China exposure

  May 8, 2024

  The University of Southern California’s investment office still holds about half of its China exposure in its private market portfolio.

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  Commentary

  Chinese PE makes friends in Mideast

  March 19, 2024

  As a chill falls over US-China relations, Middle Eastern investors are happy to step in.

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  Commentary

  Western firms watch China VC opportunity slipping away

  February 9, 2024

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  Venture Capital

  China outpaces US in backing chip startups

  January 24, 2024

  Chinese chip startups have a financial lead over international rivals, despite US efforts to spur more domestic involvement in the semiconductor space.

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  Autonomous Vehicles

  China races past US in autonomous vehicle investment

  November 15, 2023

  US companies have tried to rein in costs as complex regulations and high-profile accidents hamper growth.

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