Chinese companies, successful in working within a domestic economic environment, are having to get used to dealing with foreign financial, accountancy and legal advisors.

We are not in a benign economic environment.

Will central banks have to change their policy settings to suit a dramatically different economic environment?

They had money to spend on acquisitions, and the economic environment was conducive to mergers.

But the economic environment is not conducive to consumer spending and trading is likely to remain volatile.