Jianggan Li

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · Jianggan Li: China vs. USA Tactical Pause, Moves vs. Countermoves & Rare Earths Leverage – E647 · 26 Nov 2025 podcast

Yeah, I I think it is essentially a paradox, right?

So people try to form sort of a simplified narrative saying that okay, because simplified narratives are easier to propagate and easier to digest.

But quite often when you look at how it actually functions, you realize there are lots of nuances and it's hard to to classify this as one side of the spectrum or the other side of the of the spectrum.

It's somewhere in between and uh it's often more

moving.

So we talk to Chinese businesses and uh let me give you an example.

So we have been to China 13 times this year, right?

So obviously each time is uh most of the times we're taking sort of leadership of uh outside companies to meet um so their counterparts in China.

And quite often um so when try to book uh meetings with Chinese executives

And uh what they will tell you is that, okay, I'm agreeable to meet, but I can only confirm my time two to three days before the actual meeting.

And for outsiders it's like what the heck, right?

I mean, are you not committed?

But from the Chinese side is that okay, I mean, there's so many changes in the market.

So God knows what will happen when it approaches our our sort of uh desired meeting date, like six weeks or eight weeks after.

So a lot of things could have changed and I could be

pulled by the government, I could p be pulled by my customers, I would I could be in another province.

So it's it's it's really hard for me to give a fixed commitment.

If you if you try to understand this mindset is um is they are in a business environment where lots of things are constantly shifting and you have to make lots of changes, you have to make lots of snap decisions and sometimes you have to bring your whole organization towards a different path.

Um based on a very snappy decision.

So that's something which is um uh I I have friends who who come from Western companies to work in Chinese companies.

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