Zijin Mining Group (2899.HK): Finding Advantage in Difficult Ground
At the surface level, Zijin exists to resolve a physical supply deficit. Decarbonisation, electric vehicles, solar and wind, transmission grids, and the computing infrastructure behind AI all require more copper at a time when the global mining sector has been starved of new supply.
Pan-United Corporation Ltd (P52.SI): Concrete Is the Business. The System Around It Might Be the Moat.
There is also a durability argument that I keep returning to. Concrete has not fundamentally changed in a hundred years. You can make it greener, stronger, lighter, smarter to deliver. But the thing itself, a material that hardens into infrastructure, is not going away.
Haidilao (6862.HK): Is Service the Moat, or the Cost?
Haidilao's service quality did not emerge from a training manual. It was built through a specific mechanism: a master-apprentice incentive structure where store managers are compensated not just on their own store's performance, but on the performance of managers they trained
NetEase (9999.HK): First Principles Analysis
If you're coming from the First Principles Brief, you already know what NetEase does and why the business
NetEase (9999.HK): The Artisan's Engine in a Platform World
The way I see it, digital gaming has become what coffee is to the modern professional: a near-daily ritual, recession-resistant, and remarkably sticky. In idle moments, in downtime, in the spaces between — people reach for it. The market is enormous. The question is who's capturing it.
