Briefings on Architecture, Governance and the China Operating Environment

Briefings for leadership teams responsible for systems that must operate, train, evidence and export insight within China’s regulatory perimeter.

Briefing · Operating implications ·

What the Webull Dispute Reveals About Data Control

Keeping data in-country is only part of the answer. The harder question is who can act on the systems around it.

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Briefing · Operating implications ·

Design the Controls Before the Architecture Hardens

China’s new industrial-data standard shows why multinationals should decide how sensitive data will be controlled and evidenced before vendor and infrastructure choices become difficult to unwind.

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Briefing · Operating implications · May 2026

Architecture Has Become Strategy: A Briefing for Multinational Leadership Operating in China

For three decades, multinational strategy rested on an assumption so basic it was rarely stated: that technology implements strategic decisions rather than determining them. China is becoming the first major economy in which that assumption no longer consistently holds. There, increasingly, the architecture of a company’s data systems determines which strategies remain available to it.

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