Collapse of Chinese startup ecosystem. Cost of detaining Jack Ma will be in trillions ! Deng Xiaoping must be cursing Xi Jinping from heaven

EDianbao was started not long after Taobao’s founding in 2003, and enjoyed a surge of growth corresponding to the overall ecommerce boom in China. However, in 2020, EDianbao ran out of cash, despite earlier funding for Sequoia and many o...

People say you can't time the market but I am curious what is the junta on Grapevine thinking about investing in the current times.

Also where do I invest now? I have some 1L to invest that would not impact my current liquidity.

• BioBay, a science park in Suzhou, is nearly deserted with many biotech start-ups having moved out or closed down.
• The venture capital industry in China has seen a dramatic decline, with start-ups founded dropping from 51,302 in 2018...

..unless either of the two mess up insanely bad

We'll probably get to the #3 spot if things go well. But it seems impossible that we'll ever go beyond that.

Internal reasons that are very hard to fix:-

(1) Our population TFR fel...