Jun 18, 2013—A cumbersome visa system, no Chinese language brochures. Those are just a few of the barriers the UK and London have in place to stop more Chinese tourists from visiting their country, almost ten years after the first groups were allowed in, hospitality expert Roy Graff tells Christine Lu in the Jing Daily. 
Howard French
Howard French is associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and former New York Times correspondent in Africa, Japan, and China. As correspondent for the New York Times, he was not only an alert observer of the society he was in, but was able to compare and connect between those worlds, much to the benefit of his audience. He travels from New York.
Bill Fischer
Bill Fischer is a Professor at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he specializes in issues relating to corporate strategy, particularly in technology-related organizations, and in the management of operations and technology, as well. He is former dean of CEIBS in Shanghai. In 2012 Bill Fischer co-published The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen. He travels from Lausanne, Switzerland
Tom Doctoroff
Tom Doctoroff is the leading authority on marketing in China. His successful book Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer has founds its way to the shelves of almost every company working in China. Mr. Doctoroff switches in his speeches easily from a hand-on approach to a higher level, and prevents any confusion by telling again many real life stories from the dynamic marketing scene in China. He travels from Shanghai.
Annette Nijs
Annette D.S.M. Nijs, currently Executive Director Global Initiative of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), is a former Cabinet Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands and a former member of the Dutch Parliament. Before joining CEIBS, Annette established the Europe China Institute at Nyenrode Business University where she held the position of Managing Director of the institute. She travels from Amsterdam.
Helen Wang
Helen Wang is a contributor to Forbes and a sought-after speaker. Her book, “The Chinese Dream,” is based on over 100 interviews with the new members of the Chinese middle class. Currently, Wang divides her time between consulting for companies doing business in China and helping non-profit organizations make a difference. She travels from Silicon Valley.
Victor Shih
Victor Shih is assistant professor political science at Northwestern University and aleading specialist on China’s financial systems. Victor Shih has also consulted for the US government and the private sector on risk scenarios and “black swan” events related to China. He travels from Evanston, Ill.
Zhang Lijia
Zhang Lijia is a writer, journalist, and social commentator. She is the author of the popular memoir “Socialism is Great!” She is currently working on a book on prostitution in China. She travels from Beijing.
Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf is founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List. The list is the flagship product of Hurun Report, a luxury publishing and events company founded by Hoogewerf in 1999, which produces 20 Chinese-language magazine issues a year aimed at China’s wealth creators. Hoogewerf’s close personal relationship with many of China’s leading entrepreneurs provides the basis for the company’s busy calendar of events. He travels from Shanghai.
William Overholt
William Overholt is a senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2007 he published “Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics.” Dr. Overholt is also the author of the bestseller “The Rise of China,” one of the most compelling books on China’s economic transformation in the 1990s. He travels from Cambridge, Mass.
Arthur Kroeber
Arthur Kroeber is a respected writer and commentator on Chinese economy and Chinese companies. He has been the managing director and head of research at Dragonomics since 2002. He is also a regular contributor to the opinion page of the Financial Times and a consultant to Oxford Analytica. His articles have also appeared in the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Wired, and other publications. He travels from Beijing.
Xu Ping
Xu Ping is a senior partner at, King & Wood and Mallesons, the largest law firm of China and Australia combined, and head of the firm’s Foreign Direct Investment Group in Beijing. Ms. Xu specializes in foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer and international arbitration. She travels from Beijing.
Tricia Wang
Tricia Wang is a sociologist, technology researcher, and ethnography who studies how people use digital communication technologies in cities. She investigates the impact of digital computing (mobiles and internet) on our social interaction in and with public urban space. She is passionate about demystifying the ways non-elite or edge communities (i.e. migrants, rural villagers, or informal workers) make use of digital tools in everyday life. She travels from New York, USA
Wendell Minnick
Wendell Minnick is an author, commentator, journalist and speaker who has spent nearly two decades covering military and security issues in Asia. He is an expert on military and security issues in Asia. He travels from Taiwan.
Heleen Mees
Heleen Mees is columnist and contributing editor to Foreign Policy. She was Assistant Professor in Economics at Tilburg University and starts teaching at NYU Wagner in September 2012. She will promote in August 2012 on the role of China in the financial crisis. She travels from New York
Marc van der Chijs
Marc van der Chijs arrived last century as an expat for Daimler-Benz, but booked his largest successes as the co-founder of China’s largest video hosting site Tudou and until February 2011 as CEO for the game developer Spil Group Asia. He is now a serial internet entrepreneur and angel investor. He travels from Vancouver, Canada.
Zhang Juwei
Zhang Juwei is the Deputy Director General of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a leading expert at one of China’s most prominent think tanks on China’s economic development and its implications on labor. He travels from Beijing.
Jeremy Goldkorn
Jeremy Goldkorn is publisher and editor of Danwei.com, an online TV-personality, and shows the other side of China’s society in an informal tone with both critical and quirky elements. Coming from a solid media and advertisement background, Goldkorn has outspoken viewpoints on China’s media and Internet industries and is frequently interviewed by the Chinese and Western press for his views on media developments, and on Sino-African relations. He travels from Beijing.
Wei Gu
Wei Gu, CFA, is the Wall Street Journal editor for wealth and luxury. Before that, Wei was one of Reuters’ first columnists, initiated the product for Reuters Chinese News in 2005. She travels from Hong Kong.
Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. In June 2010 he became director international communication at China’s largest search engine, Baidu.com. Baidu was the first Chinese company to become part of the NASDAQ-100 index. He travels from Beijing.
Wang Jianmao
Jianmao Wang is professor of economics and associate dean at China Europe International Business School. He analyses the political choices the Chinese government is making, and sometimes its inability to execute them. Professor Wang gives us a peek behind the doors that mostly remain closed for the outside world. He travels from Shanghai.
Janet Carmosky
Janet Carmosky is one of the leading voices on China business in the US. With a heavy experience of a wide range of industries in China, its culture and way of dealing with the people. In a hands-on way she has a very convincing story for both beginners and veterans in dealing with China. She travels from New York.
William Bao Bean
William Bao Bean is managing director of Singtel Innov8 since the end of 2010. Singtel Innov8 is focused on investing in and driving innovative services and technology from around the world, especially China, to its 350m subscribers in Asia and Africa. He travels from Shanghai.
Michael Justin Lee
Professor Lee is the author of the best-seller The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity: 8 Timeless Strategies for Achieving Financial Success. Firmly rooted in both the Chinese and American culture, he is an ideal bridge between both. He travels from Maryland, USA.
Ben Cavender
Ben Cavender is a senior analyst with The China Market Research Group (CMR) focusing on strategic planning and brand positioning. He graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Government and Asian Studies. He travels from Shanghai.
Paul French
Paul French is Chief China Market Strategist at Mintel. As a China specialist he has been quoted in a wide variety of publications including the Financial Times, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the South China Morning Post and the LA Times. In 2012 he published the very popular book “Midnight in Peking.” The rights for a TV-show on the book have been sold He travels from Shanghai.
Ndesandjo, Mark Obama
Building bridges between China and the US has become his passion, ever since Mark Obama Ndesandjo lost his job after 9/11 and found a new homeland in China. As an accomplished business man, he decided that there is more into life than making money. He started to teach piano at orphanages and has been heavily involved in charity events in China. He travels from Shenzhen.
Shaun Rein
Shaun Rein is the Managing Director of the China Market Research Group, the world’s leading strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. He is one of the world’s recognized thought leaders on strategy consulting in China. In 2012 he published the bestseller “The End of Cheap China.” He travels from Shanghai.
Why London is lagging behind in Chinese tourists – Roy Graff
Jun 18, 2013—A cumbersome visa system, no Chinese language brochures. Those are just a few of the barriers the UK and London have in place to stop more Chinese tourists from visiting their country, almost ten years after the first groups were allowed in, hospitality expert Roy Graff tells Christine Lu in the Jing Daily. Can America catch up with China in Africa? – Howard French
Jun 17, 2013—Africa is doing better than ever, and China seems to play a major role, compared to America. China and Africa veteran, the US journalist Howard French went back to Africa, traveled to continent, to find out whether America can catch up with China. His report in AllAfrica. Creativity still key for marketeers – Tom Doctoroff
Jun 17, 2013—Chaos has erupted now digital platforms have taken over communication channels, confusing marketeers and consumers. But China advertising guru Tom Doctoroff asks us to take a breath and look how technology is empowering us. New ideas are emerging, and they still need creativity he writes in The Huffington Post. Former US Army officer warns of too rosy picture of China – Wendell Minnick
Jun 17, 2013—Defense analyst Wendell Minnick got hold of an advanced copy of the upcoming book by former US Army officer Larry Wortzel, who also served as assistant Army attache at the Beijing embassy during the Tiananmen crisis in 1989. "Wortzel argues that the “PLA is turning into a modern armed force with its own unique operational doctrine.” he writes in Defense News. Integrity counts for Chinese firms – Janet Carmosky
Jun 12, 2013—Should China put its hope on private companies, or rely on the old state-owned forces. For China veteran Janet Carmosky it is not important where a company gets its capital from, but integrity counts, she writes in Forbes. "Bankers never had the skills to evaluate commercial risk." Meeting of Asian military: many words, no deaths – Wendell Minnick
Jun 11, 2013—Just before Xi Jinping and Barack Obama sat down for their California summit, the region's military representatives sat down in Singapore for the 12th Shangri-la Dialogues. Our defense analyst Wendell Minnick saw a classic Shakespeare act deploying, although with less drama than in the past, he writes in Defense News. Why China will try to ignore the RSA-scandal – Jeremy Goldkorn
Jun 11, 2013—President Xi Jinping did not try to score points on the US cyber scandal around the NSA at the California summit. And the central government might try to ignored whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong as much as possible, China watcher Jeremy Goldkorn explains in the LA Times. Quest for safe food drives up prices – Wei Gu/Shaun Rein
Jun 06, 2013—Affluent consumers in China spend 600 to 1,000 US dollar per week on groceries, hoping are safe, tells business analyst Shaun Rein WSJ wealth editor Wei Gu. Foreign brands are perceived to be safer, but if they do no deliver - like KFC did - they are in deep trouble. Why Australia is dropping as a favorite tourist destination – Rupert Hoogewerf
China’s companies look for a global status – Shaun Rein
Jun 05, 2013—Pork manufacturer Shuanghui's purchase of Smithfield was the latest move of Chinese companies to enter a global economy, and they want to hedge a slower growth in their domestic markets, tells business analyst Shaun Rein AFP.
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