tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:08 +0000http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (Maria Trombly)Blogger518125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-7254344860388513670Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +00002010-03-09T01:30:08.917-08:00Shaun Rein by Fantake via FlickrWishful thinking has led many analysts to call for an appreciation of China's currency, the Renminbi or Yuan. Shaun Rein goes against that trend and says that an appreciation soon would hurt the recovering export industry too much and might cost up to 5 million jobs, he tells Bloomberg. Commercial Shaun Rein is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you needhttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/03/no-yuan-appreciations-anytime-soon.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-1354853275733408066Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:12:00 +00002010-03-08T02:12:59.230-08:00 Kaiser Kuo China's authorities have gone far in an effort to curtain pornography, even by disallowing individuals to register domain names on the internet. It is not a very efficient strategy, says Beijing-based Internet-watcher Kaiser Kuo to China International Business.  According to Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based digital media consultant who works with companies such as Youku.com, "the main http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/03/anti-porn-whack-mole-strategy-kaiser.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-5702544483777240813Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:39:00 +00002010-03-05T04:39:27.125-08:00Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via FlickrChina faces this year unprecedented challenges, tells Arthur Kroeber the Wall Street Journal on the day the annual National People Congress (NPC) starts its meeting. "Last year, Beijing had a simple strategy and a simple message: lend as much money as necessary to keep growth at 8%. This year, the job is trickier: it has to reduce lending, but not so much that http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/03/challenge-reduce-lending-create-jobs.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-6446074704804818372Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:42:00 +00002010-03-05T00:42:33.254-08:00Zhang Juwei by Fantake via FlickrMuch of the talk about the growing shortage of labor in China has been much too simple, tells professor Zhang Juwei of the Chinese Academy of Social Science to the Chinese media. Despite the growing labor shortage, some cannot find a job, especially recent graduates "There is a pretty clear contradiction in the labor market," said Zhang Juwei, a professor and http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/03/mismatch-at-labor-market-zhang-juwei.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-7888306048514868758Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:55:00 +00002010-03-03T04:55:23.757-08:00 Victor Shih by Fantake via FlickrChina's debts, caused by its massive rescue plan of the past few years, might trigger off a crisis as debts rise to almost 100 percent of its GDP in a worst case scenario, says professor Victor Shih in Business Week. “The worst case is a pretty large-scale financial crisis around 2012,” said Shih, a political economist at Northwestern University in Evanston, http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/03/debt-crisis-possible-in-2012-victor.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-3846339792271943143Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:16:00 +00002010-03-02T05:16:00.499-08:00Image by Fantake via FlickrRupert Hoogewerf, compiler of the Hurun Rich List, describes China's growing number of billionaires as its "new  nobility, in the Global Times. The Global Times:In his eyes, a billionaire in Beijing should usually own three houses, a villa in suburb, a condominium in the urban field and a courtyard house, as well as an art collection of some kind.A survey from the Hurunhttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/03/billionaires-chinas-new-nobility-rupert.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-3113098074966493028Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:37:00 +00002010-02-24T01:37:02.586-08:00 Shaun Rein by Fantake via FlickrChina should resist calls from the US to strengthen its current, since that would have a negative effect on the job market, even though many American says China is not playing the game fair, argues Shaun Rein in BusinessWeek.  Those voices include the famous New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman. At a time when the U.S. unemployment rate is just http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/stronger-renminbi-will-cost-jobs-shaun.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-7847703151193289220Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:41:00 +00002010-02-21T07:41:44.687-08:00Janet Carmosky, one of our authors by Fantake via FlickrThe monthly newsletter of the China Speakers Bureau is due tomorrow. We have a report on how our speakers try to explain the unexplainable: Google and China. The first of a new sequel of CBS trends, now on the issue whether China's migrant workers will be coming back after Spring festival. Also the top-10 most-sought speakers for February http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/february-newsletter-due-tomorrow.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-222684941303426849Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:21:00 +00002010-02-21T07:21:19.464-08:00Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via FlickrInternet watcher Kaiser Kuo is very enthusiastic about an emerging feature on the Chinese internet, Chinese bloggers who translate what is happening at the Chinese internet into English. From AFP: "Bridge blogs have become an incredibly precious resource," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based Internet consultant. "I just wish there were more of them and they covered a http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/praising-bridge-blogs-kaiser-kuo.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-7560832194149692334Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:42:00 +00002010-02-17T00:42:25.105-08:00Sergio Marchi Sergio Marchi is Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva and a former Ambassador to the World Trade Organizations, a Cabinet Minister in Canada with responsibilities for both international trade and the environment. Former president of the Canada China Business Council (CCBC). Sergio Marchi is a very well qualified speaker on China http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/sergio-marchi-joins-china-speakers.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-5609725578065031693Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:56:00 +00002010-02-12T00:56:46.250-08:00Jeremy Goldkorn by Fantake via FlickrChina is hurting its own interest by censoring the internet, says Danwei-owner Jeremy Goldkorn in a podcast of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China). First, they put a brake on their ability of their internet industry to turn internationally competitive, Goldkorn says. And while China is increasingly looking for tools to present their story http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/internet-censorship-hurts-china-jeremy.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-1501025459481339030Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:25:00 +00002010-02-11T02:25:25.001-08:00Victor Shih by Fantake via FlickrVictor Shih has been counting how much local Chinese entities have been lending to outspend the economic crisis. His conservative estimation, on his website,  1.6 trillion US dollar: The data are far from perfect because borrowing by low-level government entities and lending by small banks are difficult to track. Nonetheless, my evidence suggests that the scale ofhttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/china-needs-market-mechanisms-to-solve.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-1815235360950836435Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:07:00 +00002010-02-10T05:07:24.424-08:00Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via FlickrKaiser Kuo is one of ten experts predicting the trends for the upcoming year of the tiger in the Jing Daily, documenting the trend in the business of luxury and culture in China.  The internet in China is only at the start of a profound change in China, he says: I suspect that 2010 will see an even greater acceleration of a trend we’ve seen emerge over the last twohttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/internet-as-de-facto-publish-sphere.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-6026044518657042714Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:49:00 +00002010-02-10T04:49:10.641-08:00Shaun Rein by Fantake via FlickrJust in time to convey you with the best wishes for the year of the tiger, at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have done our home work again and figured out who were the most popular speakers of this month. Last month we skipped our monthly happening, since because of the holidays, the results were really lackluster. But activity is back again http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/most-sought-speakers-for-february-2010.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-3237023313199696780Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:50:00 +00002010-02-08T01:50:17.001-08:00Jeremy Goldkorn by Fantake via FlickrGetting it right when it concerns China and the internet is not easy, but media-watcher Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei gives it a good shot. Yes, there are unprecedented constraints on the internet in China, but they were triggered of when the close to 400 million internet users in the country took equally unprecedented freedom, he tells Sfgate.   "In the last yearhttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/internet-crackdown-caused-by-more.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-870226406781082726Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:51:00 +00002010-02-04T00:51:07.395-08:00Shaun Rein by Fantake via FlickrThe story that China will collapse sells books and magazines, but according to Shaun Rein the bubble in the real estate is not going to be that trigger. In Forbes he tells why some of the doomsday sayers are wrong: Why? Because China's underground economy is far bigger than the 10% to 20% of the total economy that most economists estimate when they do their http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/why-china-is-not-collapsing-shaun-rein.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-1138371814946348343Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:21:00 +00002010-02-03T00:21:22.327-08:00The book 'A Changing China', written by a selection of the speakers at the China Speakers Bureau is now available for purchase. Not yet in a bookstore nearby, but most certainly at Amazon. In the book more than a dozen China veterans tell how they have seen China change. With contributions of Kaiser Kuo, Shaun Rein, Janet Carmosky, Zhang Lijia and many others. A historical overview from many http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/02/changing-china-now-available.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-3097169395862963075Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:51:00 +00002010-01-31T04:51:30.860-08:00Image by Fantake via FlickrBest-selling author Zhang Lijia of the book "Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China  has been touring Europe, including Italy, France and the first reports on her book tour are coming in. Here Zhang Lijia is in Milan, explaining Italian media how China is changing, how it needs stability for the entrepreneurial drive to flourish. Commercial Zhang http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/zhang-lijia-touring-europe.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-422004111810492611Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:04:00 +00002010-01-28T02:04:12.327-08:00Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google threatened to leave China, Goldman Sachs is having its own affair with a state-owned company and the European Chamber of Commerce in China challenged in September the country's trade barriers. Is protectionism rising in China, wonders Shaun Rein in his latest column in Forbes. While acknowledging some of the problems, Rein asks for a reality check: Is the http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/protectionism-in-china-not-rising-shaun.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-9118918565651084497Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:48:00 +00002010-01-27T01:48:01.505-08:00Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Famous Chinese brands have not yet reached many European or American stores, but that is going to change, writes Shaun Rein in BusinessWeek, although not overnight. He disagrees with the US journalist James Fallows who says that unlike US companies, Chinese firms have been unable to create themselves a global market. Fallows' argument: China is not yet a leading http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/expected-in-your-store-china-brands.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-5486459531837431417Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:47:00 +00002010-01-27T00:47:45.983-08:00Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Real estate are the main source for local governments to get money, and the lingering crisis because of excessive spending might be hard to solve, says Victor Shih in NPR. China is having a property crisis of its own, much different from that in the United States, but no less severe, he argues: "The entities that are doing the leveraging in China are not http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/real-estate-chinas-catch-22-victor-shih.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-7422655820736273542Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:38:00 +00002010-01-25T23:38:16.289-08:00James Farrer by Fantake via Flickr Online dating in China is becoming very competitive, tells James Farrer of the Sophia University in Tokyo in a CNN article on online dating for the rich, both for men and women. "Men at the bottom of the social hierarchy are going to have very few chances to meet women," said James Farrer, author of "Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai." http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/dating-hunting-for-top-james-farrer.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-2027443931140345255Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:17:00 +00002010-01-23T05:17:53.823-08:00Image via Wikipedia The failure of Barbie in Shanghai, costing toy producer Mattel, has been told very often. Shaun Rein explains in Forbes why the strategy was good, but failed in the execution,. With its retail sales growing by 15% in China in 2009 Mattel was right to look there for revenue growth for its Barbie brand. It targeted the right age and socioeconomic group. Middle-class Chinese http://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/why-barbie-failed-shaun-rei.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-1510295926493777847Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:57:00 +00002010-01-23T00:57:39.770-08:00Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr For newcomers in China group purchasing or tuangou is a revelation, depending whether you are buying or selling. Flash mobs of buyers, organized by the internet, appear in groups at stores and demand hefty discounts in exchange for quantity. Sam Flemming of CIC, who is analyzing the buzz on the internet, tells Scott Tong of Market Radio, this great concept mighthttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/group-purchasing-chinas-next-export.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048402875810456878.post-5662566961544372541Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:32:00 +00002010-01-22T05:32:27.511-08:00Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Despite a larger number of setbacks, China will continue its expansion abroad, tells Shaun Rein the Reuters Insider. China still has an enormous ability to expand, says Rein: "They are cash rich and very agressive." He expects China could do very well in the high-end goods market and in clean technology, two industries that have also high potential in China itselfhttp://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/blog/2010/01/china-continues-to-expand-abroad-shaun.htmlfons.tuinstra@gmail.com (Fons Tuinstra)0