June 28, 2016

"Tianjin, the venue of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, will probably be one of the places where the immediate chill from the United Kingdom leaving the European Union is felt most keenly.

A once-a-year mid-summer event, organized by World Economic Forum and hosted in rotation by Tianjin and Dalian, two northern Chinese port cities, the Summer Davos is a forum for leading figures from around the world to discuss globalization and innovation.

But this year, almost eight years after the 2008 global financial crisis and with all major economies still trying to adapt to the long-term implications of the changes it wrought, the world seems drifting farther away from these goals rather than moving toward them."

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