“China and the Middle East”: Dr. Nasser Saidi’s fireside chat at the UBS Greater China Conference, Jan 2023

21 March, 2023
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Dr. Saidi participated as a keynote speaker in the UBS’s annual flagship event, the 23rd edition of which took place in January 2023 in Hong Kong with a theme of ‘The Way Ahead’.

In this podcast, recorded in Jan 2023, UBS APAC head of research Martin Yule asks Nasser Saidi, former chief economist of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the first governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, to discuss the theme, ‘China and the Middle East: old friends in a new era’. The talk focuses on trade, oil, growth of Middle East capital markets, the potential free trade agreement as well as broader aspects of China-Middle East cooperation.

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