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The height and breadth of China’s advance across the world economic stage over the past five decades has been breath-taking, leaving traders and investors wondering where and how to step in.

With its glittering cities, palm-shaped islands and globe-spanning airlines, the United Arab Emirates has been a leading innovator in the Middle East for many years.

The Asian Financial Forum (AFF) is the region’s premier platform that brings together influential leaders from government, finance and business communities globally for ground-breaking discussions and exchange of insights on the global economy from an Asian perspective.

Financial services are central to Hong Kong’s economy, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city’s GDP and it is one of the biggest financial centres in the world.

Intellectual property (IP) and innovation are joined at the hip and the Business of IP Asia Forum, themed IP & Innovation: Steering New Economic Growth, paired with Entrepreneur Day (E-Day), offered industry players a chance to explore both.

Following US President Donald Trump’s sweeping imposition of tariffs on exports from Mainland China in 2018 followed by pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions, supply chains across the world sunk into crisis in 2020.