Your Daily Asia Gaming eBrief: VUCA days polarising Mainland China

Monday 29th of August 2022

Good Morning. May we live in interesting, albeit non - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity - VUCA - times. The pressure of stringent Covid measures is having a polarizing effect on the Mainland, writes COTRI, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt. At home, J.P. Morgan argues that Macau's limitations are in sync with current industry scenarios.

What you need to know

Macau’s table cap, minimum GGR, in sync with current industry scenario; Government to re-allocate existing capacity for new projects: J.P. Morgan.
RWGenting, forced to operate at 60% capacity due to labor limitations, still posted an EBITDA of RM620mn for 2Q22, at 94 percent of 2019's figures.

On the radar

Macau unemployment rises on junket closures, lockdowns.

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VUCA days polarizing Mainland China

We have entered a phase of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) which seems not to end anytime soon. However, “the situation in China seems to move ever faster towards either an epiphany or a satori,” writes COTRI Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt. The Zero-case policy for Covid appears as a “never-ending story” letting more and more Chinese get restless, with 80,000 affluent travelers stranded in Hainan on the one hand and fish and crabs and even shrimp tested for the virus further up on the coast in Xiamen on the other.