It's also a little bit whimsical, it's pretty, and it can be frustrating but it won't hold your hand. It's a minimalist strategy game where you need to discover the rules of how the world behaves before you can rule effectively. It delivers a spectrum of emotions that combine into a unique experience. It’s also beautiful, tranquil, melancholy, frantic, stressful and wonderful. It is about figuring out how best to manage your little Kingdom and tie everything together in a fashion where the game doesn’t play you – you play the game. And that huge internal high-five when you succeed. It is about tenacity and overcoming obstacles – even when they seem to be unsurmountable. When multiple pieces all of a sudden come together to form a whole – a basis for a new strategy or an understanding how something in the world of Kingdom: New Lands truly works. Kingdom: New Lands is about exploration, discovery, survival and that awesome feeling that you get, when you figure something out, on your own. You'll come across items, NPCs, and mysterious statues to help you but you'll have to figure out just how exactly they'll aide you in building and defending your Kingdom. Kingdom: New Lands asks you to puzzle things out on your own. Travel to the New Lands and welcome the deluge of new mounts, merchants, and vagrants that call these isles home, but be wary of the new obstacles that threaten your arrival - for not just the greedy creatures block your way but even the environment itself can defeat you. Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy. Rulers will need all the strength of their subjects to sail away and find new kingdoms in these New Lands. The authors have published widely on China-related issues.Tales spread of far off isles with mysteries waiting to be discovered. They do not represent the policies or estimates of the U.S. The positions expressed here are the authors’ personal views. His research focuses on commodity, security, and rule of law issues in China, Russia, and Latin America. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) and an Associate in Research at Harvard’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Erickson is a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Gabe Collins have more than a decade of combined government, academic, and private sector experience in Mandarin Chinese language-based research and analysis of China. We aim to foster better understanding of key Chinese developments, with particular focus on natural resource, technology, industry, and trade issues.Ĭhina SignPost™ 洞察中国 founders Dr. We believe that by presenting practical, apolitical China insights we can help citizens around the world form holistic views that are based on facts, rather than political rhetoric driven by vested interests. China SignPost’s research methods and philosophies are geared to help you capture alpha in this new environment.Ĭhina SignPost™ aims to provide high-quality China analysis and policy recommendations in a concise, accessible form for people whose lives are being affected profoundly by China’s political, economic, and security development. Gaining exposure to many of the new opportunities will not be as simple as buying major mining companies’ stocks in New York or Hong Kong, and the research and due diligence burdens of making investments in the new opportunity pockets will be exponentially higher than for the “old” China plays. grapples.Īs China’s new leadership tries to find ways to keep growth robust and clean the country up, and Chinese consumers’ tastes continue to evolve based on a host of economic and sociological factors, a whole new class of commodity winners and losers will emerge. Similarly, China faces energy supply questions that are in many ways far more complicated than those with which the U.S. For instance, China’s protein consumption continues to climb despite a badly overtaxed land and water resource base. Second, many commodity classes remain poised to benefit from consumption increases that will likely come at a multiple of GDP growth. As such, the baseline numbers are now large enough that even a slower annual percentage growth rate can still yield world-class absolute commodity demand volume increases each year. Even if China moves onto a slower growth trajectory, as China SignPost believes it will, it will still exert profound effects on global commodity markets.įirst, even at a 4-5% annual growth rate, China is one of the two fastest growing multi-trillion dollar economies in the world.

The new commodity story is different, and much more dynamic. The old China commodity story of consistent 8% GDP growth and commodity demand growth based on fixed asset investment is dead and gone.

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