KYSHI Bridge Executive Breakfast: Connecting China and Africa Business Leaders

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An executive breakfast hosted by KYSHI Bridge, bringing together business leaders operating between China and Africa. The conversations in this room are the practical version of a corridor that usually gets discussed in macro terms. Payments and settlement, which remain the most persistent friction for African businesses buying from Chinese suppliers. Quality assurance and who carries the risk when a shipment does not match the sample. Finding counterparties who will still answer the phone in the second year of a relationship. Trade between the two regions is dominated by intermediaries whose incentives are not aligned with either end of the transaction, which is a structural problem rather than a moral one. Rooms like this are where the alternative gets built, slowly, through people who can operate credibly on both sides.