Andrew Delios

Andrew Delios

Professor, Department of Strategy & Policy and Vice Dean, Master of Science Programmes Office, NUS Business School

Andrew Delios is a professor in the Department of Strategy & Policy and the vice dean of the Master of Science Programmes Office at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He became a fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2013. Andrew has written over 80 published journal articles, case studies and book chapters, as well as six books, including China 88: The Real China and How to Deal with It. His research looks at strategy, governance and global competition issues in emerging economies, the international strategies of Japanese multinational corporations, and the geographic and product growth strategies of publicly-listed companies in China.

An employee places side molding on a car along the assembly line at a factory of Chinese automaker NIO in Hefei, in China's eastern Anhui province on 10 May 2023. (Hector Retamal/AFP)

Chinese manufacturers playing catch-up in core technology

Somewhat paradoxically, the trade decoupling of China and the US has forced Chinese manufacturers to independently develop their core technology, which is a boon to their long-term development and competitiveness. But it may be some time to go before China catches up with the West.
A girl reacts and laughs as she loses a game of rock-paper-scissors with her father (left) on a street outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China on 1 May 2021. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP)

China stories: Let’s not always focus on the negatives

Andrew Delios, vice dean of the Master of Science Programmes Office at the National University of Singapore, observes that media reports have often cast a suspicious eye on China’s actions, even those that deserve to be celebrated such as the development of the Sinovac vaccine. Imbalanced and agenda-driven reports will only lead to greater distrust and suspicion among countries, just when the world needs to work together on constructive solutions.
Oil and gas tanks at an oil warehouse at a port in Zhuhai. (Aly Song/REUTERS)

The most likely outcome of the BRI

Professor Andrew Delios shares the possible outcomes of the BRI, from fulfilling strategic objectives to the Red Scare Scenario. To find out which is the most likely, he says we must first consider if the BRI is just a series of road, rail and ocean linkages across nations. And what is the point of a route of transportation, without a destination? He finds the answers in China's economic zones.