Recent Rooms
A few of the tables where this work happens.
For organizations whose strategy depends on what China does next. One keynote to an ongoing desk. Pricing visible. No procurement gauntlet.
For program chairs and event leads who need a China-AI talk that doesn't recycle last year's headlines. I work in Mandarin primary sources, so the talk has material the room hasn't heard.
For leadership teams that need to get up the curve on China and AI in a single working day, not a six-month consulting engagement. Hands-on sessions on a single specialist topic.
For C-suites, boards, and investment committees whose decisions depend on what China does next. One question, sourced in original Mandarin, briefed in person or virtual.
A briefing on Beijing's commercial-diplomatic operations in Norway, prepared from the 2025 MOFCOM Investment Guide. Mapped the Nuctech corporate chain through Tsinghua Holdings to China National Nuclear Corporation. Identified the deliberate compartmentalization between the Norway investment guide and the 2018 State Council Polar Silk Road White Paper.
For PE/VC firms, defense primes, semiconductor and cloud companies, and corporate strategy teams making a major bet. One question. Sourced in original Mandarin. Read directly, not run through translation.
A research project mapping China's Belt & Road science cooperation as an integrated strategy. Synthesized three Chinese government documents — the Big Data Plan, the 2025 Belt & Road Science Cooperation guide, and State Council Gazette No. 25 — into a three-stage institutional capture model across the 23 partner countries. Identified the maritime chokepoint logic behind the geographic distribution and the data architecture that produces escalating exit costs.
Page-level OSINT analysis of a Chinese government computing-network blueprint. Identifies the reservoir framing (蓄水池), maps the four-layer architecture, and explains why opting out becomes impossible.
The $5.2B semiconductor packaging strategy traced to a permanent IP license buried in a Chinese securities filing for nine years. Sourced from MIIT filings.
Decoding the four-character framework 模芯云用 in the 15th Five-Year Plan. Published before the official English translation existed.
The breakout primary-source analysis. China isn't hiding its strategy — it's publishing it. We're just not looking in the right places.
How a Chinese AI company gives small nations immunity from US pressure — and why the Venezuela deal is a blueprint, not an exception.
Xi Jinping's personal envoy with Maduro the night before American helicopters arrived over Caracas. A timeline reconstructed from primary sources.
Not consultant-on-call. The Pacific Desk is a standing intelligence relationship. For organizations whose strategy depends on knowing what China is doing before the official translation exists.
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