Dear Colleague

My name is Joe de Courcy. I am chief executive of Intelligence Research Ltd, and I would like to introduce you to the China Watch Service (CWS) - and to China Watch Online.

Three key information resources

At the core of the China Watch Service is privileged access to three specialist publications and online resources:

The first goal of the China Watch Service is to provide you with reliable intelligence on economic and political developments in China that could affect your - or your organization’s - vital interests, and we do this through the China Watch Weekly Briefing.

This invaluable weekly report - emailed or faxed to you by 0700 hours New York time every Friday morning - ensures that the busy executive and the professional ‘China-watcher’ alike are provided with a quick-to-read intelligence summary of all that week’s key economic and political developments in China.

The China Watch Weekly Briefing provides a timely and concise briefing, summarizing and analysing the developments that could have implications for your commercial, economic, investment, political, security, or strategic interests in China.

While it is important to monitor developments on a constant 24/7 basis, and to provide clients with rapid analysis of breaking news, it is equally important to take a step back from time to time - to view developments from an overall strategic perspective.

Each month - through the China Watch Monthly Review - China Watch provides and in-depth overview of China’s economic and political developments and external environment.

China Watch Monthly Review provides you with primary research analysis on issues of key importance that are seldom - if ever - covered by general news sources.

Crucially, China Watch Monthly Review has the sources and the expertise to look behind the official statistics and pronouncements to give you accurate forward-looking analysis based on hard facts rather than the unsubstantated speculation on which so much of the general media relies.

China’s economy has become pivotal to the global economy, with its burgeoning foreign investment and vital supply-chain relationships with the rest of the world, and every quarter, China Watch Monthly Review provides forwarding-looking quarterly forecasts for the Chinese economy.

Our economic analysts dig deep behind the official figures, to find the real underlying facts and to ensure that you know what you can trust and what you cannot trust.

Each Quarterly Forecast provides you with the very latest data and our expert extrapolations on what this will mean for you, your company, and the global economy over the coming quarter and beyond.

All China Watch’s information services feed into our research and intelligence database, China Watch Online - and as a valued full-service China Watch client you will have automatic access to this invaluable resource.

China Watch Online is continuously updated by our analysts to ensure that you have constant 24/7 access to accurate and current data on which to base key decisions.

Through China Watch Online you will have unrestricted access to our China Country Report containing links to all the latest economic and trade data, economic forecasts, risk highlights, and business-environment comparisons; the latest political developments, foreign relations issues, and internal security developments; and a comprehensive listing of research links.

China Watch Online will give you unfettered access to the China Watch Reference Library.

This unrivalled research tool contains a full archive of all the political, strategic, and economic analysis relating to China produced anywhere within the Asia Intelligence group - not just by the China Watch Service. And this fully-searchable archive is organized on an article-by-article chronological basis for maximum utility.

Three exclusive "full-service only" benefits

Because we realize that pre-packaged briefings, however well-researched and sourced, can never quite fulfil your individual needs, we have created three exclusive benefits as part of your China Watch Service, including two personalized services.

Through these three exclusive benefits, the China Watch Service provides intelligence specifically tailored to your individual requirements and objectives, and at the moment it is most needed, not according to inflexible publishing schedules.

Your full China Watch Service benefits include all three standard China Watch services(Weekly Briefing, Monthly Review, and China Watch Online, PLUS the following three "full-service only" benefits:

All China Watch publications and information resources are forward-looking and predictive, but even with the best will in the world, we cannot anticipate every crucial development. So when the unexpected does happen, we put our resources to work for you, instantly.

Whenever a major unexpected crisis erupts in China or which affects China, we hold an emergency meeting of our in-house research team, contact our in-country sources, and send out a full Special Bulletin to ensure that you are fully briefed immediately.

All our standard reports are timely and accurate, but inevitably they are written with the interests of all our clients in mind - not with your specific interests to the forefront.

So, to make provision for your specific needs, we have set up a Client Response Unit to enable you to request further elaboration or clarification on any breaking-news story or on any issue raised in a China Watch report.

Responses are provided by our experts from your own individual perspective and needs.

Your fourth exclusive China Watch Service benefit is direct personal access to China Watch’s political and economic editors - Alexander Pick and Derek Scissors - for two Personal Briefings each year.

These briefings can be conducted face-to-face in our London office - the schedules of all parties permitting - or they may be conducted by telephone at times of your choosing.

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Yours sincerely

JKC de Courcy
Chief Executive