March 15, 2010

Google announced publicly it would no longer censor its search engine a China, a requirement for any internet company working in China. The option of Google reversing its stance seemed also a rather remote possibility. But Google made it in the past few months even worse, explains Kaiser Kuo to the Mercury News, by further damaging its already impossible position.

March 14, 2010

The battle stories from doing China business in the past illustrate how much China has changed for the better. Shanghai-based Lawyer Mark Schaub recalls in the book A Changing China, produced by the Chna Speakers Bureau, how his legal profession has become much more professional over the years.

March 13, 2010

In his speech at the famous Austin SXSW China's prominent internet watcher Kaiser Kuo closed his keynote with a few scenario's Google has in China. Google threatened to leave China in January after hacker attacks in December, said it would stop censoring its China search engine. But neither has happened, while the tension has gone up.

March 12, 2010

A massive bailout of China's major banks might be one of the options to let them recoup much of the 2.4 trillion Renminbi (255 billion euro) spend during the recent financial rescue operation, says professor Victor Shihto BusinessWeek today.

March 11, 2010

China's billionaires keep on collecting more wealth and the Hurun founder, Rupert Hoogewerf, the China rich list, expects them to reach the global top in 15 years, when the economy keeps on growing.

March 10, 2010

Author Zhang Lijia of the bestseller "Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China might be building fame fast outside China, but her interview with the Global Times is a breakthrough. While no political activist, she is also not always toeing the official bureaucracy. But at least in the English-language media, times are slightly changing.

March 9, 2010

Wishful 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.

March 7, 2010

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.

March 5, 2010

China faces this year unprecedented challenges, tells Arthur Kroeber the Wall Street Journal on the day the annual National People Congress (NPC) starts its meeting.

March 4, 2010

uch 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 Scienceto the Chinese media. Despite the growing labor shortage, some cannot find a job, especially recent graduates

March 2, 2010

China'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.

March 1, 2010

Rupert Hoogewerf, compiler of the Hurun Rich List, describes China's growing number of billionaires as its "new nobility, in the Global Times.

February 23, 2010

China 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.

February 21, 2010

Internet 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.

February 16, 2010

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).

February 12, 2010

China is hurting its own interest by censoring the internet, says Danwei-owner Jeremy Goldkornin a podcast of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China).

February 10, 2010

Victor 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.

February 9, 2010

Kaiser 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.

February 7, 2010

Getting 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.

February 4, 2010

The 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.

January 28, 2010

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.

January 27, 2010

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.

January 26, 2010

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.

January 25, 2010

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.

January 23, 2010

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 might as well become China's next export product.

January 23, 2010

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.

January 22, 2010

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.

January 21, 2010

Most countries might be happy these days with double-digit growth of its GDP, in Beijing alarm bells when off when the government figures indicated a growth of 10.7 percent over the fourth quarter of 2009 while inflation is picking up

January 19, 2010

The Google debate on China has opened the debate on how the country censors the internet again, but Shaun Rein asks in Forbes for a reality check: the internet in China is freer than ever, he says.

January 18, 2010

Yes, says Jeremy Goldkorn, owner of the blocked website Danwei, although it ain't easy. Google is often quoted as the latest casualty of Chinese protectionism, where foreign media can only work in the country, until get a certain level of success.

January 16, 2010

Branding is high on the agenda of many companies in China, but its works mostly with the top-layer of rich Chinese, says Hurun-founder Rupert Hoogewerf to Bloomberg. In the Hurun magazine Hoogewerf lists their preferences

January 15, 2010

Google committed an act of war against China, says Shaun Rein in Forbes in the third day after the US firm announced it would leave China after its Gmail service got attacked by what other says would be Chinese forces. The media upheaval still shows no sign of abating.

January 14, 2010

The main question that was posed yesterday did not get an answer: Is Google packing its bags for commercial reasons and only uses moral indignation to hide its failure in China?

January 13, 2010

The decision by Google to leave China, after hackers had tried to enter email account from Chinese human rights activists is still very fresh, but our speakers are out in force to discuss the consequences. Was is all a carefully planned PR-move by Google, just waiting for the right moment to pull out? Or was this genuine moral indignation about a vicious act?

January 12, 2010

China's internet censors might have blocked microblogging service Twitter, but since domestic services have taken over, the ghost is out of the bottle, tells internet watcher Jeremy Goldkorn USA Today.

January 11, 2010

Famous economists take very different positions on the questions whether China's economy is a bubble or not. James Chanos now jumps on this lucrative bandwagon and Shaun Rein is rightfully setting him straight.

January 10, 2010

Going against the comments of many fellow economic analysts, Arthur Kroeber simply does not believe China is even close to a real estate bubble, he tells the Washington Post. There is still too much room to grow, he says.

January 6, 2010

Chinese are getting wealthier and fatter, visitors of the country can see. Retail analyst Paul French just finished a major report on "Fat China" and tells Shanghai Urbanatomy about his study into Chinese obesity. Famine has definitely become a feature in the country's history.

January 5, 2010

Large companies are only spending a fraction of their marketing budget on digital initiatives, while most of the Chinese consumers can be found behind their computer screen or on their mobile, says Shaun Rein in an article describing three major consumer trends for Forbes.

January 3, 2010

After a relative freewheeling 2009, internet watcher Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei expects more tightening of the rules in the year to come including the booming gaming industry.

December 29, 2009

Should China revaluate its currency or not? No, says business analyst Shaun Rein in a publication of the International Institute for Trade in India. American business would be better off without at this stage with a firmer Renminbi.

December 28, 2009

Bubbles in real estate and otherwise could have a negative effect on China's economic development and inflation could become a serious problem in 2010, warns economic analyst Arthurs Kroeber.

December 21, 2009

Fortunately saved for history is Kaiser Kuo's great speech in November at TedxHonolulu on Chinese-US relations and the big disconnect between the rednecks and the red guards on the internet, the big disconnect between American and Chinese relationships.

December 16, 2009

Shaun Rein takes on James Fallow of The Atlantic, who thinks 44 percent of the Americans have lost their marbles because they think China is a more important superpower than the US. Rein issues a wake-up call for James Fallows and argues in Forbes that China is already an established superpower.

December 15, 2009

The world is still at best marginally recovering from a global crisis, while China is booming already. Arthur Kroeber explains in Market Oracle how it comes that for the first time the roots for economic rebounds were not found in the US, but in China.

December 14, 2009

Luxury goods might be doing very well among China's emerging wealthy, diamonds are even better, tells Shaun Rein in Newsweek. Compared to other diamond markets, the Chinese are the most promising buyers.

December 11, 2009

Chinese shoppers are welcome guests in the world's luxury capitals like London, Paris, Macau and Hong Kong. Shanghai-based retail expert Paul French explains the the Globe and Mail why they prefer to go abroad, in stead of shopping in China itself

December 10, 2009

China's economic growth might look encouraging, but financial and political experts like Victor Shih warn in Forbes for what is really keeping the economy burning.

December 6, 2009

Have you ever wondered how to apply the Blue Ocean strategy in a highly competitive economy like China? Blue Ocean expert Zunaira Munir has a solid background in China, where she obtained a PhD in Innovation Management from Wuhan University of Technology, China.

December 1, 2009

It's Apple with their iPhone, eBay, Motorola, Tiffany, Nautica and Brooks Brothers got it wrong in China and Shaun Rein spells out in Forbes why they got it wrong. He fortunately also tells us who got it right, at least better than the losing companies, like the German car maker BMW.

November 27, 2009

Environmental lawyer Charlie McElwee tries to makes sense out of China's carbon emission targets for 2020 ahead of the Copenhagen summit, and is not happy, he writes in his weblog.

November 26, 2009

For China's ruling class, climate change is seen as an imminent threat that should be dealt with very fast, professor Andrew Leung told SolveClimate.com ahead of the coming climate conference in Kopenhagen. It tough 2020 emission targets should be seen from that perspective: a severe security risk.

November 25, 2009

Despite its predicted 8 percent economic growth, China is still facing a crucial time, tells Arthurs Kroeber the Australian Inquisitr.

November 23, 2009

The prestigious Columbia Journalism Review has been publishing a two part interview with Howard French, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times in both Tokyo and Shanghai on how the US media got it wrong when they reported Barack Obama's recent trip to Asia and especially China as a horse-race.

November 19, 2009

Leading economists like Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and even US president Barack Obama pushed China to revalue its currency, the Renminbi. Shaun Rein explains in Forbes why strengthening the Chinese currency even more is not going to help the United States, or anybody else.

November 17, 2009

The famous doll Barbie was received with many cheers as its groundbreaking store opened in Shanghai earlier this year. But Barbie has been missing its target as it seems to appeal more to the Americans than to the Shanghainese, a problem that sounds very familiar for more foreign brands that try to enter the China market.

November 16, 2009

Compared to the rich in the developed nations, China's well-to-do are relatively young, tells Rupert Hoogewerf, composer of the Hurun rich list, the New York Times.

November 13, 2009

As the trip by US president Obama to China comes near, our Shaun Rein continues in Forbes to debunk common myths the outside world might have about China. Earlier he took on three business myths, today focuses on the Chinese genes that prescribe a high saving rate and the one-child policy.

November 12, 2009

China-hand Paul French sounds a bit amazed as his discovers that efforts to cut back China's tradition of corruption in public tenders actually seems to work out.

November 11, 2009

Political scientist Victor Shih is only halfway through a project finding out how huge China's financial rescue package has actually been, but he is already worried. Not that China's collapse is imminent, but the country has invested a far larger percentage of its GDP into saving the economy, compared to other countries.

November 10, 2009

Chinese domain names have been written untill recently in Latin letters, but although officially now Chinese and other non-Latin characters are possible in url's, there is not real eagerness to use that possibility, despite governmental encouragement, says Sam Flemming.

November 9, 2009

Without government action, China is heading for a housing bubble by the second half of 2010, tells Arthur Kroeber Radio Australia. Many people see investment in housing property as their retirement fund

November 8, 2009

Media expert Jeremy Goldkorn saw his website Danwei blocked, but the seasoned business man did not panic, although he lost 30 percent of his traffic overnight, he tells the CIB Magazine. And, although recognized as a successful entrepreneur, it does not mean he is making big bucks.

November 6, 2009

Apple's partner China Unicom sold since its 30 October debut only 5,000 iPhones, while some market analysts predicted a sale of millions. Shaun Rein explains in Forbes how Apple and China Unicom had it all wrong and how they can save the iPhone by changing strategies fast.

November 5, 2009

Retail expert Paul French comes in Forbes with a few reasons why in the epic battle between French giant Danone and its now former China partner Wahaha, the CEO of Wahaha Zong Qinghou comes out as the winner.

November 2, 2009

Has US manufacturing moved to China, asks Bloomberg a group of experts. No, manufacturing is alive and kicking in the US, says also William Overholt. Manufacturers are doing more with less people, but...

October 28, 2009

A great speech by Kaiser Kuo earlier this month at the University of Nebraska, addressing the Sino-US relations and how the internet plays an growing role. Few people outside China have an idea how the largest group of internet users, the Chinese, are using their newly-found freedom.

October 27, 2009

Shaun Rein takes the stage again in Forbes, debunking three myths about (business in) China that are no longer true and perhaps never have been. 1. China's economy is export-led 2. China has a limitless supply of cheap labor. 3, Connections are everything.

October 26, 2009

William Bao Bean, partner at the Softbank China-India Holdings, gives a thorough overview on how the travel industry in China is developing online. With the Beijing Olympics over and the Shanghai Worldexpo coming, infrastructure in hotels and other tourist facilities have increased dramatically, although profits have plunged.

October 23, 2009

Shaun Rein is giving foreign retailers a crash course on who to target among the Chinese consumers and what the dangers are, in Forbes. They should forget about the Chinese equivalent of the baby boomers, the older generation will not start spending even when health care and pension systems are in place.

October 23, 2009

In Shenzhen today ChiNext, the Nasdaq-style stock exchange, was launched to provide smaller and middle size companies with capital. An excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs, Hurun publisher Rupert Hoogewerftells Reuters.

October 22, 2009

China's bean counters have been reporting enthusiastic economic growth of even 8.9 percent in the third quarter, but our own analyst Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics is not yet convinced,he tellls DNA. "The quality of the growth stinks."

October 21, 2009

Is China going to lead the world? That questions is asked frequently, but Victor Shih is pretty sure in his piece in the Wall Street Journal that China is far from ready.

October 17, 2009

Rupert Hoogewerf is interviewed by Shanghai Urbananonymy on his ten-year operation of documenting wealth in China with his Hurun or China Rich List. What are the differences between the British and the Chinese well-to-do?

October 15, 2009

Rupert Murdoch was the lastest Western corporate tycoon in Beijing, asking the Chinese authorities to crack down on fake products and the infringement of intellectual copyrights. Shaun Rein sets him straight and explains in Forbes why fake DVD's and Gucci bags are not dissapearing from China's markets.

October 12, 2009

China's rich have not only survived successfully the financial crisis, they are getting richer very fast, says Rupert Hoogewerf, the author of the annual Hurun report, documenting for a decade the well-to-do. The country now counts 130 billionaires, up from 101 last year and that number might be under-reported.

October 11, 2009

Democratic elections and free media might be far away for China, but the internet is increasingly taking up some functions in allowing people to tell the government what they want, says media watcher and Danwei-owner Jeremy Goldkorn.

October 8, 2009

Despite all the recent upheaval on the Green Dam Youth Escort internet filters, Beijing cybercafes did not have this or other filtering software installed, tells internet expert Jeremy Goldkorn ZDnet Asia.

October 7, 2009

Corruption in China was long seen in the foreign business community as an unavoidable nuisance. But now the Chinese government has been coming after huge companies like Rio Tinto, Coca-Cola and McKinsey, avoiding corruption has become - even more than in the past - a must, to stay in business, writes Shaun Rein in Forbes.

October 6, 2009

This summer Jeremy Goldkorn saw his corporate website Danwei.org blocked by the censorship in China, an honor he shares with many including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and a few others. Nevertheless, as he writes in The Guardian, life goes on, despite this nuisance.

October 5, 2009

Non-performing loans have been dealt with effectively over the past decade, but as those old loans and the current financial rescue packages are added up, China's financial system is heading for an unprecedented stress-test, writes Arthur Kroeber.

October 1, 2009

The cat-and-mouse game between China's internet users and its censors - sometimes called the internet nanny - has been fiercer than ever, says Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn to the Wall Street Journal.

September 29, 2009

Wang Chuanfu, heading China's BYD car manufacturer, junped 102 places on Rupert Hoogewerf's annual rich list Hurun, after his venture got the backing of super-investor Warren Buffett, reports Bloomberg. Buffett increased his earlier investment with 500 percent.

September 28, 2009

In its effort to deal with an economic downturn, the massive capital injections into the Chinese economy have created an asset bubble, explaining past month's downturn at the Shanghai stock exchange, says iStockanalyst.com. They quote William Overholt, senior research fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

September 27, 2009

A good introduction by William Bao Bean, partner at Softbank India&China Holdings, talking about how companies can survive in the current financial crisis. The video dates from May 22, 2009, so some parts are a bit outdated. But a few of the ways to make money in the crisis, still work.

September 24, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia recalls for the weblog China Beat, at trip to the new Beijing museum, dedicated to a famous song, "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China".

September 23, 2009

Shaun Rein uses the two stabbing incidents in Beijing to explain how government in China works. The National Day on October 1, when The People's Republic of China celebrates its 60th birthday, is a crucial moment for many careers of officials.

September 22, 2009

Advertisement agencies and media buyers are slowly finding their way from traditional media into the digital future, says William Bao Bean, partner at Softbanks's China and India Holdings, the Hollywood Reporter, The market share of online media in China went up last year from 7 to 11 percent of the total expenditure.

September 18, 2009

Upcoming leader Xi Jinping was to many's surprise not elected as Vice-president into the Central Military Commission (CMC), a step needed to replace current president Hu Jintao in 2013. Political analyst Victor Shih explains in Bloomberg Hu wants to hang on a little big longer after 2013, just like his predecessors did.

September 17, 2009

A very optimistic Shaun Rein expects that China's luxury market will replace in size the Japanese one already by the end of this year, he tells Bloomberg. Especially the Chinese women have been moving up in the picking order for the more expensive goods. Regardless of their disposable income, many Chinese still buy big ticket items. Rein: "The Chinese want it big".

September 16, 2009

The relations between the Obama administration and China's central government have been excellent, despite an averted trade war. But on the internet US and Chinese citizens are stirring up the Sino-US relations, warned Kaiser Kuo earlier this week at a CLSA China conference in Shanghai.

September 15, 2009

One year after the collapse of the US bank Lehman Brothers, capitalism has not died, but the ball game has moved to Asia, with India and especially China as the new players, argues Shaun Rein in a new commentary in Forbes. One year later, the power brokers are different, not the game, leading the world in economic growth.

September 14, 2009

After the US announced a levy on Chinese tires, many observers feared a possible trade war between two of the world's largest economies. According to Dragonomics director Arthur Kroeber from Beijing in Finfacts, a repeat of the 1930s trade wars is highly unlikely.

September 8, 2009

Huang Rulun, one of the wealthiest business men in China and a real estate tycoon, tops also the list of top-philantropists, report several state media. According to a report by the Hurun rich list Huang Rulun has spent 580 million Renminbi (58 million euro) in less than one year time on different projects.

September 7, 2009

A flood of food scandals has put foreign brands in a better position to gain market share in China, says Shaun Rein in an interview with newswire Bloomberg on the Swiss company Nestle.

September 2, 2009

China's emissions might be high on the global environmental agenda, but Shaun Rein from Shanghai remembers the polluted days ahead of the country's economic boom and seem room for optimismm although the level of pollution is ten times as high as in New York.

August 30, 2009

Rock star Kaiser Kuo explains in the China Daily why his band called itself "Tang Dynasty". Main reason was because of that dynasty's famously cosmopolitan outlook".

August 27, 2009

For a while ending up at Rupert Hoogewerf's Hurun rich list seemed a receipt for trouble. Tycoon after tycoon got into trouble with China's authorities and some ended up in jail. In a new report, "The Hurun Report: Rich in Trouble", the firm analyses the track record of Chna's rich and concluded that it is not that bad.

August 26, 2009

The new class of Chinese rich has been so busy in making money over the past five to ten years, they had no time to develop a lifestyle, like the wealthy in Europe and the US could do, says Hurun CEO Rupert Hoogewerf.

August 25, 2009

Compared to Tsingtao beer, the largest beer producer in China, is having a tough time in getting hold of China's massive beer market, says Shaun Rein in an interview with Bloomberg.

August 23, 2009

Most of China's wealthy prefer to live in Beijing, says the latest Hurun report on the country's rich, composed by Rupert Hoogewerf.

August 22, 2009

Foreign medical device makers have huge opportunities in China as the country embarks next year in a gigantic reform of its health-care systems, says Shaun Rein in Business Week, based on research of his China Market Research Group (CMR). One fifth of China's ambitious stimulus packages to flight the downturn is targeting on providing 90 percent of the Chinese citizens universal medical car.

August 21, 2009

Kaiser Kuo does a brave effort to explain the internet in China for the outside world of non-geeks, an almost impossible thing to do. At Chinalogue of Bonlive he talks about BBS's, human flesh searches and how older Chinese can work on the internet anyway.

August 20, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia tells at Chinalogue of Bonlive about the 1980s, when women started to find their sexuel liberation after Deng Xiaoping started to open China's doors for the outside world at the end of the 1970s and other women's issues.

August 19, 2009

A veteran of the US-China business, Douglas Maclellan, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Maclellan has a distinguished career that roots back into the Reagan era. Douglas Maclellan has extensive experience in telecom, pharmaceuticals and other industry. Currently he also is Chairman & CEO at AMDL, Inc, apart from leading his own company.

August 18, 2009

The world might have feared China was following Russian style of business when it arrested Rio Tinto executives on state-security charges in Shanghai on July 5, writes Arthur Kroeber today in the Financial Times. But it is not that bad.

August 17, 2009

Becoming a successful IT entrepreneur in China, like Marc van der Chijs of the Spil Group Asia, is not easy as many US giants like Yahoo, Google and eBay had a rough time at the hands of the domestic competitors. But Van der Chijs made the grade, first with video sharing host Tudou.com and now as the CEO of a gaming company. He tells in an upcoming book.

August 16, 2009

The US has announced it will provide a system to work around internet blocks as they are used by for example China's censors. But prominent internet users like Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn do not think a new US work-around will add much to the many systems that are already around even though his own website had been blocked for a few months now.

August 13, 2009

Shaun Rein reacts on an article in the New York Times, describing US youngsters moving to China to find the work they could not find at home. It is not that easy, he says in Forbes. Often government regulations, like in media or telecom, prevent foreigners from taking a position they could get in other countries, even if they would get the required visa.

August 12, 2009

China might be the second-largest consumer market in the world within five years, consumer researcher Shaun Rein tells in this interview with CBS. "Top brands need to look into the needs of consumers,", explain Rein.

August 10, 2009

Arthur Kroeber explains in the Financial Times why China did not use a magic trick to keep on growing, but 34 percent of extra credit.

August 5, 2009

The West has not yet a clue about the importance of women in China, both in society and as powerful consumers pushing the economy into the direction of double-digit growth, says Shaun Rein of the Shanghai-based China Market Research Group.

August 4, 2009

Chinese hackers attacked an Australian film site after a brawl emerged over the showing of a movie on Uigur celebrity Rebiya Kadeer and Western media - with few exceptions - were sure the Chinese government was behind this. Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn explains why genuine patriotic feelings in China are behind this.

August 3, 2009

Author Zhang Lijia often describes the growing freedom in China in a rather positive way, while Western media regularly take a more critical approach, the reporter of the Dutch website OneWorld.com asked her during a recent visit to Amsterdam. How does Zhang Lijia explain the difference?

July 31, 2009

Former China correspondent for the New York Times Howard French notes in his former paper the way how the US deal with the racial riots in 1967 Denver, and draws some lines to the racial riots in China's Xinjiang earlier this year.

July 28, 2009

Shaun Rein explains, in the tracks of a recent kidnap case of an American business man by his disgruntled partners, that business in China is not so much different from the US. Although, the lack of a good-working legal systems sometimes makes business partners to turn to illegal tools.

July 26, 2009

In the Huffington Post marketing guru Tom Doctoroff spells out what a winning design in China needs.

July 22, 2009

China's efforts to stop irresponsible local lending has changed into an 'all out' credit line for local governments, writes Victor Shih, assistant professor in political science, in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. Even compared to the financial rescue offered at the end of the 1990s when the Asian crisis hit the region, the current package is unprecedented

July 20, 2009

Piracy is the theme of one chapter in an upcoming book by Chris "Long Tail" Anderson and not surprisingly, China is at the core of the chapter. One of our celebrity speakers, Shaun Rein of the China Market Research Group (CMR) in Shanghai tells Chris Anderson how pragmatic young women look at pirated goods, since they cannot yet afford the real thing. And it show a way out for the future.

July 18, 2009

Author Zhang Lijia spoke Friday 17 July in Amsterdam on her autobiography "Socialism is Great". Why did she stop there, was one of the questions, were the 1990s less exciting than the 1980.

July 16, 2009

Consumer confidence in China has gone up, after a small dip in April, says Shaun Rein, commenting on the rather weak figures from Yum, the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, were presented.

July 15, 2009

The internet in China works differently from the internet elsewhere, Sam Flemming tries to explain in a commentary at CNN. That difference is important to know when companies want to try the internet for commercial reasons.

July 13, 2009

Former Shanghai bureau chief Howard French not only has a distuighisted career as a foreign correspondent in China, Japan and Africa for the New York Times, he is also an accomplished photographer. He documented the old Shanghai, the Shanghai that is now disappearing fast as demolishing works for Worldexpo 2010 moves on. The BBC has put up a slideshow.

July 12, 2009

For China Unicom, currently China's second-largest mobile phone provider, an expected deal to distribute Apple's iPhone in the world's mist connected nation might be a hit, Shaun Rein does expect major bears on the way for iPhone.

July 11, 2009

Many of the larger Chinese companies are state-owned, says analyst Arthur Kroeber in a comment to Australian media, making passing on their information an infringement of state secrets. Four employees of the Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto got arrested by Shanghai State Security, just after a major deal with state-owned Chinalco fell through.

July 10, 2009

The UK and other European countries are lacking smart marketing strategies and visa policies that would make their tourism sector more attractive for the richer Chinese visitors, writes tourism expert Roy Graff. While there is no shortage of buses full of Chinese tourists, participating in cheap European trips, the more lucrative sector, the more wealthy Chinese, are not feeling welcome

July 9, 2009

Google's growth in China is not likely to be hurt by the recent porn brawl it had with China's internet authorities, says analyst Shaun Rein. The US search engine got itself into hot water as it was accused of facilitating searches for porn on the internet. But advertisers might not be impressed by the row.

July 8, 2009

Zhang Lijia, the author of the autobiography "Socialism Is Great!", will be speaking at a meeting in Amsterdam on Friday 17 July at the meeting room of On File, at the Singel 46 in Amsterda, very close to the Central Station. The meeting starts at 3PM and is organized by On File, an organization for writers and journalists in exile, and Press Now, an organization for press freedom.

July 7, 2009

Shanghai is trying to move up in the world's view, as the World Expo 2010 comes nearer, says Rupert Hoogewerf in a comment to AP.

July 6, 2009

The dramatic scenes from Xinjiang are unlikely to have a big impacts on China as a whole, says Arthur Kroeber in media comments, days after the riots started in China's remote Uighur region.

July 5, 2009

China's currency the Renminbi or Yuan has been popping up as a potential competitor for the US dollar as a reserve currency. But in a comment to Reuters; Alan Wheatley, Arthur Kroeber kills that story effectivelym together with many other economists

July 1, 2009

Tom Doctoroff, North Asia Area Director of JWT advertising firm, describes in The Huffington Post the decision to at least delay the compulsory censorship software Green Dam on PC's shipped in China as an unique capitulation of the Communist Party. De decision was published at the official newswire Xinhua just hours before midnight, when the regulation would have been in force.

June 30, 2009

Despite dropping occupations rates in Beijing and later possibly Shanghai, China's travel market is still growing, despite the crisis, says William Bao Bean, partner at Softbank India and China Holdings, according to 4Hoteliers. He sees much future for online bookings.

June 29, 2009

Today the Hurun Report from Rupert Hoogewerf and Ammado organized the first CSR-mart in Shanghai, both organization announced in a press release. Hurun or Rupert Hoogewerf was one of the people giving an opening speech.

June 26, 2009

Soft drink Wanglaoji from Guangdong tops the fourth Hurun list of Most Valuable Brands with an estimated USD 540 million of value, writes CCTV on their website. List composer Rupert Hoogewerf, who expanded the list from 50 to 100 Chinese brands, sees that branding is taking off in China, competing with foreign brands on their own territory.

June 25, 2009

Annoyed by yet another effort to block parts of the internet - this time including Google - Beijing-based internet entrepreneur Jeremy Goldkorn wrote on his website Danwei to net nanny, name for the collective Chinese efforts to censor the internet, and the country's leading TV channel CCTV.

June 22, 2009

China has avoided most of the credit crunch and its rich has not dramatically changed their life style, says Rupert Hoogewerf, author of the Hurun report and tracking China's rich for over a decade in an interview. His research shows that life has remained the same for 82 percent of the people on his list.

June 21, 2009

Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn sits down with the author Paul French to discuss his latest book on foreign correspondents in China, Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao. Why did he stop in 1950, is one of the obvious questions.

June 20, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia joined recently in Perth, Australia a BBC-show and explained how her life and China had changed. "Life is much freer now."

June 18, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia is mostly based in Beijing, but this year she has a busy travelling schedule. After a trip to Switzerland (June 23-July 13), she will be visiting also the Netherlands, Belgium and London (19-25 July). In September, October and November she will be staying in the US to participate in an international writing program at the University of Iowa.

June 17, 2009

How should companies deal with new media like twitter? Twitter supremo Marc van der Chijs of the Spil Games in China taught Dutch airline KLM last month for free how to do that.

June 16, 2009

Seventy percent of the M&A deals end up badly for the shareholders, research from his Shanghai company CMR group has shown, writes Shaun Rein today in Forbes.

June 13, 2009

Marketing guru Tom Doctoroff will give members and other visitors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai a lively introduction into digital marketing and the way to reach China's youngsters

June 12, 2009

The global music industry hopes to tap into the revenue streams in Asia, writes the Hollywood Reporter, But VC William Bao Bean does not give them a lot of hope to make a buck in China as the country has no tradition of paying for the usage of music products.

June 11, 2009

The famous Chinese journalist and author Zhang Lijia will visit Belgium and the Netherlands (especially Amsterdam) for a short visit. Her groundbreaking book ""Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China has just appeared in Dutch. She will be in Amsterdam from 14 till 17 July and if you are interested in meeting her, do get in touch with the Europe office of the China Speakers Bureau.

June 10, 2009

Only by loosening the ties for private companies, who are in an disadvantaged position compared to state-owned enterprises, China can keep an economic growth of annually 8 percent, Arthur Kroeber explains.

June 9, 2009

Beijing-based media tycoon Jeremy Goldkorn is expanding his empire into what is indisputable the most important subject in China: food and cooking. In a bilingual video blog In Kitchen Yo he starts off with something that seems rather easy. An omelette.

June 4, 2009

When a Chinese company who never build a car bought the Hummer from GM, one of the largest problems of the Detroit car giant, many predicted huge problems. But Shaun Rein tells Forbes he sees also some positive sides on the deal.

June 3, 2009

China's internet users might have overstepped the vague line of what is permitted on the internet, by using twitter and its Chinese equivalents to exchange a banned book, says internet guru Jeremy Goldkorn today in Forbes.

June 2, 2009

Shanghai might be better prepared to deal with its Worldexpo2010 compared to what happened with the Beijing Olympics, although Shaun Rein at CNBC is not without worries.

June 1, 2009

While China and the US are edging towards each other, the emergences of a new world order, excluding some of the old and upcoming new forces, is a distant prospect at best, writes Arthur Kroeber in todays Financial Times.

May 31, 2009

Just days ahead of June 4, celebrity author Zhang Lijia remembers in the New Work Times her May-days in 1989 when she helped to organize demonstraties, like they took place all over China, adding to the concerns of the leadership in Beijing.

May 29, 2009

Xu Ming, currently the Asia-Pacific director of the IEDE business school from Madrid and a former Chinese diplomat in Latin America, has joined the China Speakers Bureau as a speaker.

May 28, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia gets many positive reviews for her book "Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China, but a review in the Washington Post is still a milestone.

May 27, 2009

Just like Japan in the 1980s China is now going overseas in a major shopping spree to spend a part of its USD two trillion in foreign reserves. But that is where the similarities stop, says Shaun Rein in a commentary on NPR.

May 26, 2009

With the US dollar in decline as the leading reservel currency, the financial world is looking for alternatives. China's currency, the Renminbi, is not going to be one. The Renminbi might be expanding its global network, but that does not make it a possible replacement for the US dollar says the economic analyst.

May 25, 2009

The first signs of grass root soccer in China are only emerging, says soccer expert Rowan Simons in a Time-article on a soccer club in Huilongguang, Beijing.

May 24, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia continues to win over new audiences, here in an interview with the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais

May 22, 2009

Yet another movie about the Japanese atrocities in Nanjing is causing an uproar in China, writes the LA Times . Celebrity author and Nanjing native Zhang Liji a tries to explain why giving the Japanese soldiers a human face is still a hard sell in China.

May 21, 2009

Sociologist James Farrer of the Sophia University in Tokyo comments in Global Post on the opening and closure of China's sex park "Love Land" in Chongqing, earlier this month.

May 20, 2009

Victor Shih attended yesterday a China conference of the "Friends of Europe" in Brussels, together with Levin Zhu, the CEO of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China's souverain fund. Shih addressed the danger of China banking literally on its future, by increasing its debts for its economic rescue package

May 17, 2009

Our celebrity author Paul French will have his newest book in the book stores from June 1: Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao. The historical account of foreign correspondents in China, who have played such an important role in shaping the Western perception of China.

May 16, 2009

Our speaker, assistant-professor Victor Shih will be debating coming Tuesday in Brussels with Levin Zhu, the CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CIC) on the future of China. His session "Countering the global recessions. Is China an economic threat or a locomotive of growth" is part of a larger meeting of the "Friends of Europe".

May 14, 2009

Much criticism is heard about how China is spending its 4 trillion Renminbi (430 billion euro) stimulus package against the economic crisis and especially private companies seem to be left out, says Arthur Kroeber.

May 13, 2009

The China Speakers Bureau is hosting on Thursday 14 May two sessions with CIC's founder Sam Flemming on social networks in China, brand, consumers and how they interact with technology of the now-famous start-up CoverItLive.com.

May 11, 2009

The efforts by China's environmental authorities to ban the popular plastic bags from their supermarkets has been met with a lot of skepticism. But according to environmental lawyer Charles McElwee the introduction of the ban is now getting into phase 3 and really getting serious.

May 8, 2009

While China's bean counters try to stress positive figures in its economic development, assistant-professor Victor Shih sees very troublesome signals as prices for industrial goods fall by huge percentages over the first three months of 2009.

May 7, 2009

Xu Ping and Mark Schaub, senior partners at China's largest law firm King and Wood, have been working with almost all those larger Chinese companies and are currently preparing a trip to the US for this autumn with Chinese outbound investments as a theme.

May 6, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia continues her road to world fame, as the 21th Century edition of Jung Chang, and will visit France and the Netherlands this autumn

May 5, 2009

The Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park, located in the Pudong New Area, is home to more than 3,600 companies focused on life sciences, software, and information technology. Of those, more than 250 are life sciences companies, employing a total of 20,000 life sciences professionals. About half the Park revenues are from life science.

May 4, 2009

As China's exports continues to drop, its exports industry turn to their home markets, as desperate move that might spell trouble, says retail analyst Paul French to Reuters. From producers of famous Western brands, they now try to sell their own brands and lines of products.

May 3, 2009

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia relives the 1980s in an interview with The Star. "I loved the 1980s," she adds. "There was so much idealism. "Then, people were pushing the envelope, testing the waters."

May 2, 2009

One of the internal criteria, but not the only one, we use to asses the qualities of our speakers at the China Speakers Bureau is the question whether he or she made it into the Wikipedia. So we are happy to announce that Marc van der Chijs, CEO of the Spill Group Asia made into the world's leading encyclopedia.

April 30, 2009

The world might be suffering from an economic crisis, in Shanghai the symptoms of that crisis are simply not present, says professor Wang Jianmao of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), China's leading business school, in the Financial Times.

April 27, 2009

Our speaker Victor Shih has been digging up an internal report by China's central bank the People's Bank of China (PBOC): most of the stimulus package goes to state-owned construction companies.

April 23, 2009

While some might see some positive economic signs in China, assistant-professor Victor Shih sticks to his gun and does not see a real recovery. In his weblog he points at all those important signals that are still not well and not encouraged by the 5 trillion renminbi stimulus package.

April 22, 2009

Zhang's institute was one of the first to challenge the common cliche of China as an unlimited source of cheap labor, and predicted a labor shortage in the years to come. Zhang Juwei address also broader economic dilemma's China is facing, as the world is watching how the country seems to be the first to get out of the global recession.

April 22, 2009

Gloomy reports in Western media on mass dismissals and social unrest among China's migrant workers as the export industry seemed to suffer from downsizing have proven to be wrong, writes Arthur Kroeber

April 21, 2009

The internet has changed the world for companies working in China, says CIC-founder Sam Flemming in the magazine of Wharton Business School on China and CSR-systems. CIC tracks online debate on the Chinese internet.

April 20, 2009

Shaun Rein of CMR in Shanghai looks ahead at the future of international car makers as the Shanghai auto show opens for business today.

April 18, 2009

Celebrity speaker Warren Liu , author of a ground-breaking book on the success of KFC in China, will visit the United States end of May, June and a part of July. His thorough analysis of why the American food chain succeeded in China, where many other famous American firms failed, is based on his solid experience in both Chinese business and academia.

April 17, 2009

Rowan Gibson, co-author of the Harvard-book "Innovation to the Core", will be in Beijing in the second week of May to receive the Chinese translations of his bestseller book. The book will be published by the famous business publisher CITIC.

April 16, 2009

Dwindling value of the Chinese stock markets might have hit China's wealthy dramatically, the number of millionaires on the mainland in Renminbi has hit a record 825,000, says Rupert Hoogewerf in his latest Hurun report.

April 14, 2009

Annette Nijs , currently Executive Director Global Initiative of China's leading business school CEIBS, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Through her career in politics, as a Dutch cabinet minister, and in business at Shell, Ms Nijs has developed an extensive network that supports her current position.

April 13, 2009

A fast-acting government has organized a soft landing of its economy, says Shaun Rein of the research firm CMR in Shanghai in an overview of the country's stimulus package for Seeking Alpha. Consumer confidence remain strong and did not need much attention, he says, but a combination of other measures has certainly helped to mitigate the effects.

April 9, 2009

The current global economic crisis not only has losers, it has also clear winners, says economic analyst Arthur Kroeber today in the Global and Mail. China's stimulus packages might help you greatly if you are in the right industry, where China wants to boosts its investments

April 8, 2009

Media have been fascinated by Chinese investors touring American real estate to buy, but the impacts might just not be as big as huge as expected, warn Rupert Hoogewerf , the expert on wealthy Chinese, in Business Week.

April 2, 2009

China boast about its US$ 588 billion stimulus package at the G20, but assistant professor Victor Shih has very serious misgivings about the effects of the package, he writes in the Wall Street Journal . It might create positive headline numbers but has no effect on employment and private consumption.

March 31, 2009

Zhu Shen, a recent addition to the China Speakers Bureau, a leading voice on China's life sciences, but also a prolific speakers on US-China business, will be visiting China for the best part of April.

March 27, 2009

The income of most Chinese citizens has gone up much during the past decade, but most of the extra money is not being spend but saved, says Fudan economics professor Zhang Jun.

March 26, 2009

Our celebrity author Warren Liu, writer of a book about the success of KFC in China, made it today into the INSEAD Knowledge. In the article Warren Liu explains why that KFC success in China may not last.

March 25, 2009

CNN's Talk Asia has investigated the Beijing Rock scene (h/t Danwei). Of course, rock star Kaiser Kuo is one of the main sources of knowledge, as the founder of "Tang" in the 1990s and one of the first rock bands in China.

March 25, 2009

Consumer market expert Shaun Rein has a thorough look at the failed US$ 2.3 billion acquisition deal between Coca-Cola and China's leading drinks maker Huiyuan in Forbes. While praising Coca Cola for going after the right consumer segment, Rein says that the US company failed to take China's anti-monopoly laws serious.

March 24, 2009

Comparing how China and Japan are facing the financial crisis, offers huge differences, writes JWT China CEO Tom Doctoroff in his latest contribution for The Huffington Post. His company faces cuts in costs, and his Chinese staff preferred the dismissal of unproductive people.

March 23, 2009

"Das Capital", the 19th century masterpiece by Karl Marx, can still help us to understand the current financial crisis, says theater makers in Shanghai. They are making a musical about the thorough book and Fudan professor Zhang Jun in helping them in sticking to the original meaning of the centerpiece of Marxism.

March 20, 2009

Now US president Obama has started the printing presses to flood the world with new US-dollars, existing fears in China that their economy has to suffer from the US problems re-emerge, says financial and political expert Victor Shih in Forbes. A popular book in China "The Currency Wars", even suggests an evil conspiracy to bring down the country

March 20, 2009

The groundbreaking book by Victor Shih, Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation is now available in its paperback edition. The book is a necessary tool for those Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickrwho are interested in how China's government really works.

March 19, 2009

China's economy might have some problems, when you look carefully, that might offer you great possibilities, says VC William Bao Bean of the Softbank China & India Holdings and a director at language-learning startup iTalki at PC World.

March 18, 2009

Analysts and economists are carefully following how the Chinese consumers are behaving during the financial crisis, but it is certain that they will not behave like American consumers, says Paul French, director of Access Asia to USA Today.

March 17, 2009

Kaiser Kuo, shortly after speaking at the SXSW in Austin, Texas, explains for the outside world why China's internet is such a vibrant and fast changing feature.

March 16, 2009

The central government is ordering larger mobile communication providers like China Mobile to do something against the rampant spam messages mobile phone users in China get. Main problem, says consumer analyst Shaun Rein, it works.

March 15, 2009

Larger numbers of entrepreneurs are heading for Shanghai as their own economies go bad. Veteran entrepreneur Maria Korolov gives in Shanghai Expat the newcomers a few tips on how to survive in this very competitive city.

March 12, 2009

On April 2, 2009 the China Speakers Bureau will host a second Global China chat, this time with China tourism guru Roy Graff of China Contact. This time we will have two sessions, to facilitate different time zones, one for Asia/Europe, the other for the Americas and Europe. The chat will be hosted by Maria Korolov.

March 12, 2009

Spil Games, the casual game producer, has become the largest in the world, passing other players like Yahoo Games and MSN Games, Shanghai-based entrepeneur Marc van der Chijs announced on his weblog.

March 11, 2009

Learning Chinese is no longer boring, tell Chinesepod.com founder Ken Carroll today in the Financial Times. His language-learning tool is currently used by almost a quarter of a million people, on a daily basis.

March 10, 2009

The once popular Mattel toy Barbie might be facing both a financial and cultural crisis back in its home market, Shaun Rein comments on the multi-million six story venture Mattel opened in Shanghai for its doll.

March 8, 2009

"China's market for modern art has dropped in 2008 by 25 percent, while the stock markets lost 60 percent," says the former accountant.

March 7, 2009

China is replacing very fast the old colonial powers in Africa, but the story is mostly ignored by the media, told former New York Times correspondent Howard French last Thursday at the China in Africa of the School of Journalism at Indiana University.

March 6, 2009

While China's financial leaders might see light at the end of the tunnel of the country's crisis, financial analyst Arthur Kroeber warns in The Guardian it might be too early to cheer.

March 5, 2009

Rumors the Chinese government might double its current four trillion renminbi stimulus package might be true, but Arthur Kroeber of the Beijing based consultancy Dragonomics does not believe it would be announced immediately.

March 4, 2009

Shaun Rein, one of the leading speakers at the China Speakers Bureau, is once again invited for the annual meeting of the Asia Society, this time in April at the Sheraton Hotel in Saigon, Vietnam. He joins an impressive line-up of speakers, including the prime minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung, John Negroponte, Charlene Barshefsky and Paul Krugman.

March 2, 2009

Not all indicator suggest an easy ride, says Graff, as the central government is cracking down on corruption, and unnecessary foreign trips by officials. Some of the domestic leisure tourists might prefer domestic holidays over international trips, but there are good opportunities too.

February 28, 2009

The Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang has become the country's more valuable artist, says China Rich List producer Rupert Hoogewerf.

February 27, 2009

Internet users organize themselves already for years to get offline better deals, even to get their cars through "group purchase". Sam Flemming reports on his weblog about his colleague making this big ticket purchase with 55 others.

February 26, 2009

Retail sales of luxury products in Shanghai have remained strong, tells retail analyst Paul French the Financial Times in an article about the Japanese shopping mall Takashimaya, who decided to open stores in Shanghai, despite the global economic crisis.

February 25, 2009

Sixty percent of hundreds of Chinese consumers interviewed in six cities by Shaun Rein's CMR expect they will spend more compared to 2008. That is one of the conclusions Shaun Rein will share during the Global China Chat on consumer confidence on Monday.

February 24, 2009

Monday 2 March at 5 PM Beijing times (6 PM Tokyo time, for Europe, 10 AM CET) consumer analyst Shaun Rein of the leading research bureau CMR will participate on the first Global China Chat, this time on consumer confidence in China by the China Speakers Bureau.

February 23, 2009

The visit of secretary of state Hillary Clinton to Beijing has profoundly changed the climate on climate change, writes environmental lawyer Charles McElwee, one day after the visit on his weblog.

February 22, 2009

China will keep on buying US treasuries, even against all odds. Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, tells the Financial Times

February 19, 2009

As a part of China's green efforts a major change in the country's land use rights are expected, writes Shanghai-based lawyer Amy Sommers in the Green Buildings Blog,

February 18, 2009

As the shake out of industries takes place under the global financial crisis, internet companies in China are becoming more attractive for investments. The market has been too expensive in the past few years, but now that is changing.

February 17, 2009

Cao Dewang, a glass tycoon from Fujian province, has become China's biggest giver in charity, Hurun publisher Rupert Hoogewerf. Cao Dewang wants to run the Fujian Charity Federation and would be number 102 on Hurun China Rich List last year with total assets of 6.5 billion Renminbi.

February 16, 2009

2009 will be a troubling year, professor Victor Shih tells USA Today. Especially for millions of migrant workers who have lost their jobs in export oriented industries and hang on in lesser paying jobs, or return home to rural life.

February 15, 2009

Counterfeits might be part of life in China, but some companies win, while Polo lost, tells Shaun Rein Bloomberg. Hong Kong operator Dickson Concept loses after twenty years its "Polo" license, as the company takes control in Asia itself.

February 13, 2009

A pot smoking Michael Phelps illustrates now celebrities change from brand ambassadors into liabilities, especially in China where audiences tend to be less forgiving compared to the US.

February 12, 2009

The declining export figures have not the influence on China's economy that is commonly believed, says economic analyst Arthur Kroeber. Not the export, but failing real estate and declining demand for the construction industry set off the current economic problems in China, he says.

February 11, 2009

You cannot control the IWOM (Internet Word of Mouth) and thus ultimately the internet, tells CIC-chief Sam Flemming 56minus1, when asked about the biggest mistakes companies, brands and agencies make.

February 10, 2009

Andrew Leung, already having an impressive list of prestigious positions, has now also become Visiting Professor of the London Metropolitan University Business School (LMBS). The London Metropolitan Business School, located in the center of London and the heart of the City, is an initiative of the London Metropolitan University.

February 9, 2009

The financial crisis and declining values of Western brands might in theory offer Chinese brands an inroad into Western markets, writes marketing guru. No Chinese consumer brand is ready go head-to-head against Western counterparts on the latter's home turf.

February 7, 2009

Indian reviewers of Zhang Lijia's "Socialism is Great" react mildly shocked after the celebrity author visited their country, noting wryly that she is spending more time describing her advertures with her boyfriends than on politics

February 3, 2009

China is spending too much money on no-so effective stimulus plans for the infrastructure, while they should more focus on helping the smaller companies, writes leading analyst Shaun Rein. In terms of policies for smaller companies, China could learn from the US.

February 2, 2009

China's economy has become much more resilient compared to the 1990s because of the larger number of smaller private enterprises, says analyst Arthur Kroeber of the consultancy firm Dragonomics.

February 1, 2009

The Communist Party in China (CCP) has lost its moral authority and not be able to return to its old role as the sole player, says assistant-professor James Farrer, author of a leading book on China's sexual revolution "Opening up".

January 31, 2009

Celebrity writer Zhang Lijia just ended a successful book tour in India, being the first Chinese author to enter this market, write jubilant Indian media. Her personal memoir of her youth working in a Nanjing missile factory has made a rather successful debut.

January 26, 2009

Real estate in China is expected to rebound over the coming twelve months as the central government is reversing its policies, writes real estate guru Sam Crispin in a newly released CPIM report.

January 25, 2009

Shaun Rein of the China Market Research Group (CMR) explains to the newswire Bloomberg why he remains cautiously optimistic about consumer spending in China, although the number of optimists in China dropped from 70 percent in December to 60 percent now.

January 24, 2009

For a long time, and up to not so long ago, making use of your bloodlines was not done for descendants of Communist celebrities, writes Victor Shih at his weblog. But the princelings - as they are called - now make full use of their parents credential, wishing the Chinese happy new year at the front pages of the People's Daily.

January 23, 2009

Crisis or no crisis, online games are moving fast, explains Spil Games Asia CEO Marc van der Chijs how his company uses China as a testing ground for the world. The free games, that play for free for up to one hour, are tremendous popular in China

January 21, 2009

Thirty years ago has opened its economy, but for entrepreneurs the main problem is still the same, access to capital, says China's rich list maker Rupert Hoogewerf in an interview.

January 20, 2009

Professor Andrew K.P. Leung from London is one of the latest celebrity speakers who joined the China Speakers Bureau. His resounding resume reflects a 40-year career in international business, diplomacy and trade. At the China Speakers Bureau we gladly welcome professor Leung in our stable of prestigious speakers on China.

January 18, 2009

Independent consultant Paul Denlinger explains Thomas Crampton how this global citizens got involved with a lot of the big names in the Chinese internet.

January 18, 2009

China's heavy industry needs rather readjustment to the current overcapacity in stead of a stimulus package, China analyst Arthur Kroeber tells in an critical view on how China is dealing with the current economic downturn.

January 17, 2009

Tom Doctoroff takes for the Huffington Post a look at the books on China that really mattered to him. How an American starts to find out about China.

January 16, 2009

The wealth of China's millionaires has halved at the end of 2008, says Rupert Hoogewerf, composer of the China' rich list. And they are also tightening their belts.

January 15, 2009

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.

January 14, 2009

China Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) approved last Friday also the PX-project that has moved from Xiamen to Zhangzhou after fierce protest from its citizens. Environmental lawyer Charles McElwee notes in his weblog interesting deals that are part of the final approval.

January 14, 2009

Celebrity speaker and author Zhang Lijia will visit India on a book tour at the end of January. After her arrivel in Delhi, she will be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival from 22 till 25 January. For launching events and interviews she will be in Delhi from 26 to 28 January

January 13, 2009

Shaun Rein continues his analysis of Chinese companies going global, depicting the young, but fast developing pharmaceutical industry. His by many scandals trust is a key word among China's food and drug producers, domestically and internationally.

January 12, 2009

After long internal debates, China has used the drop in world oil prices to introduce a fuel tax. In the China Economic Quarterly (CES), Arthur Kroeber analyses the new tax.

January 12, 2009

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) approved on Friday 153 projects worth 470 billion Renminbi (47 bn euro). All are part of the four trillion Renminbi package announced in 2008 by the central government as part of the packages to encourage the economy

January 11, 2009

To avoid future financial crises like we see now, a global central bank is needed to replace a failing IMF and World Bank, leading economist William Overholt said on a lecture at the Dubai School of Government.

January 10, 2009

Internet guru Kaiser Kuo will leave next week his current job as director digital strategy of the advertising agency Ogilvy & Matters. Kuo will continue to work as an internet consultant for the site Youku.

January 9, 2009

Victor Shih is much gloomier on the possible numbers of unemployed, estimating it at least at 35 million, for a large degree university graduates who will be unable to find jobs. While managable in the short run, Shih fears that a set of events could trigger off massive unrest.

January 8, 2009

China's cultural-revolution style online posses, smoking out what they perceive to be evil, have become under attack from China's authorities themselves. Those "human flesh searches" are risen to prominence over 2008, comments media analyst Jeremy Goldkorn.

January 7, 2009

Learning the ropes, in discovering the way distribution channels work, how to deal with the tougher legal limits, deal with the differences in culture and find appropriate talents.

January 6, 2009

Leading environmental law professor Charles McElwee gives an overview of the eight environmental resolutions for 2009, noted from the Ministry of Environmental Protections (MEP), one of the superministries established last year.

January 5, 2009

As their Western and Japanese competitors like GM, Ford and Toyota crumble, Chinese car companies consider going global. Shaun Rein of the China Market Research Group (CMR) interviewed top-executives and discusses possibilities and challenges in a first of ten reports on Chinese ambitions of going global.

January 4, 2009

Our specialist in recent Chinese history, recalled historical comparisons made by important Western visitors to China in his weblog. Is started with the American comedian Will Rogers comparing the countryside around Harbin with Nebraska.

December 30, 2008

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been supporting China's economic reform, but since 2007 its character has been changing, not declining, writes Shanghai-based lawyer Amy Sommers in the Financial Times.

December 29, 2008

Problematic performance during the earthquake in Sichuan and incidents in Tibet and Xinjiang by a part of the communist cadres has triggered off the new policies. China's communist party (CCP) is revamping its way to select its cadres, asking for capabilities rather than connections.

December 26, 2008

A leading voice on China's tourism and hospitality industry joins our roster.

December 23, 2008

Starbucks is one of the enterprises in China that is being hit hard by the global downturn, harder than others because they rely to a large degree on foreign customers. Rein has been one of the pundits refusing to accept the common feeling that China's is following a global trend downwards. But for the popular coffee house he has to make an exception.

December 22, 2008

Contrary to what Western media report, China's consumers are still going strong, writes Shaun Rein. Consumers in the US might be in panic after so many lost saving of a life-time, Chinese consumers maintain a strong confidence in both their government and the country's financial institutions.

December 21, 2008

A rising tide against China and imports from China, notes Richard Kuslan in the US, triggered off by recalls of cars from China

December 20, 2008

In a decade China bank have changed from government counters for handing out money into professional financial institutions. But the recent four trillion Renminbi rescue plan might push those banks ten years back in history, writes assistant professor Victor Shih in the Wall Street Journal.

December 19, 2008

China's internet is profoundly different from the internet in the US, Korea or Japan. More than 80 percent of the internet users in China uses IM, preferably through Tencent's QQ, much more than anywhere in the world. They still prefer BBS's because it's anonymous and the country is more video intensive than any other

December 18, 2008

While the situation looks more challenging in the long term, China's government is positioned very well to deal with the current downturn and has done up to now the right things, writes Doctoroff in the Huffington Post.

December 18, 2008

The central government in Beijing announced yesterday measure to ease getting credit for property developers and reduced the lock-up period for house owners from five to two years.

December 17, 2008

Despite all gloomy predictions, consumer spending in China keeps on going strong. Compared to the US its influence on the overall economy is still limited, but when new government policies kick in in six months time, Rein expects a soft landing of the Chinese economy, while the US and Europe are heading for a prolonged recession.

December 16, 2008

Two very different and rather entertaining interviews with Zhang Lijia, documenting the writer who is documenting a changing China. On the new trend of books on the new China. Interviewers are Xu Xi and Lawrence Gray.

December 15, 2008

"People voting with their wallets for tasty local food rather than western fast food. But the builders are encroaching - already some of the old houses have been destroyed and a couple of non-descript blocks of nonsense put in their place"

December 10, 2008

The Asian economic crisis in the 1990s, the reunification of Hong Kong with China and the collapse of the Barings bank happened within Mirella Visser's tenure as senior manager at the ING Group in Asia. From Hong Kong she led as a member of the management board ING's business development in Hong Kong and China.

December 9, 2008

Five reasons why China's retail consumption will do well in 2009. It goes against the trend of doom and gloom that comes along with the economic crisis in the US - and to a lesser degree in Europe. China might be different, at least as we look at domestic consumption.

December 8, 2008

Spending by urban consumers is still on track, says Shaun Rein, director of the China Market Research Group, based on his own research. He. Seventy out of one hundred urban consumers had no plan to change their spending habits despite all the talk about an economic crisis.

December 7, 2008

Becoming a celebrity inside and outside China is an achievement few can put on their record, but Rupert Hoogewerf or Hurun can do so. The best-selling author of the China Rich List has become so much of a household name, many Chinese even do not realize Hoogewerf is a foreigner living in Shanghai.

December 5, 2008

"People think prices are going to drop," Rein said to Bloomberg. "They are not going to buy home decoration. It's a very difficult area to be in now.

December 4, 2008

The eminent author and journalist Jasper Becker from Beijing has today joined the China Speakers Bureau. Becker has been one of the leading voices on China's development and was up to recently the publisher of Asia Weekly.

December 4, 2008

After Jung Chang hit the world with he epic story "Wild Swans", many female authors have been trying to copy her success without making much of an impact. Zhang Lijia, author of "Socialism is Great" is on the way to become the Jung Chang of the 21th century as translation after translation open up her story for new audiences around the world.

December 3, 2008

Local governments and companies are trying to blackmail the central government in compensating them for paying arrear wages for their unruly citizens, writes financial expert Victor Shih on his weblog, pushing "stability" as their main card.

December 2, 2008

Chinese companies are preparing to buy assets abroad to make use of the global financial crisis, writes Shaun Rein in Business Week. Qingdao-based Haier was the first to move, but many others are following, his research suggests many are following.

December 1, 2008

Market watchers cannot gauge at this stage what China's consumers are going to do, says Paul French, China analyst of the Access Asia research firm in the China Daily.

November 30, 2008

William Bao Bean and other marketing experts see in the online media for the first time a way to target emerging consumers among the now 300 million Chinese internet users.

November 29, 2008

Making it into the famous online encyclopedia Wikipedia is a benchmark for our writers. A few have crossed the line into fame and we are happy to report that Zhang Lijia has now her own entry.

November 28, 2008

Huang Guangyu, China's richest person and chairman of the Gome Holdings, has never been a public figure, says China-rich list compiler Rupert Hoogewerf after his arrest. Huang has topped his list of richest Chinese three times in a row.

November 27, 2008

When you say internet, you say community, argues CIC's Sam Flemming in his latest white paper on the Internet Word On Mouth (IWOM), depicting the fast changing way how China's internet users are communicating. Participation is the key word, and China's 253 million internet users mainly use domestic tools for their conversation.

November 26, 2008

China's planning authorities intend to push up to 400 billion Renminbi into the stock market, but analysts like Arthur Kroeber do not necessarily think that is a good idea. Kroeber explains why the move, expected early December, might not be a smart idea.

November 25, 2008

While China's growth might take a hit, its fundamentals are still in place, says economic analyst Arthur Kroeber.

November 24, 2008

China's consumers will reduce spending and certainly not offer a way out for US and European companies, says marketing guru Tom Doctoroff. But he is at loggerheads with other leading voices on the China market, like Shaun Rein, who sees problems for big ticket items like cars and real estate, but sees that 70 of the consumers keep on spending.

November 23, 2008

While India and Brazil display often ideological undertones in the message, China is "open to compromises and trade-offs". If China now claims a place at the table of the global financial institutions, it is because the country belongs there.

November 22, 2008

Four out of ten innovative companies are coming from Asia, says IMD-professor Bill Fischer and program director about a ground-breaking program on "driving strategic innovation". Fischer is expanding the program from Europe and North-America to Singapore, he tells.

November 21, 2008

Details on who gets what money are still scarce but state-owned companies - good for 30 percent of China's economy and employment - are in urgent need of recapitalization, writes Shih, using the city of Chongqing as an example.

November 20, 2008

Consumers in China are still going strong, Rein discovered from research. Seventy percent will go on spending, although both real estate and the automotive industry are excluded from this strong consumer demand.

November 19, 2008

While much of China's four trillion Renminbi rescue package is window dress, there is still a lot of new money available for the environment, hopes Charles McElwee on his weblog.

November 18, 2008

China's central TV has skipped major football matches from its programming, because of continued violence. Football expert Rowan Simons explains in AP why football is different from for example Olympic sports.

November 17, 2008

"From the rocket factory to the international media: a personal memoir of 30 years of reform and opening" is the theme of renowned author Zhang Lijia on 20 November at a meeting of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club.

November 15, 2008

A familiar pattern in how China tried to reform its electricity industry, but failed to do a decent job, describes Arthur Kroeber. In less than half a year China changed regular shortages into a glut: under influence of the current crisis, demand has gone down four percent in October.

November 14, 2008

Both the four trillion renminbi (450 billion euro) and the share rescue package of 930 billion Renminbi are not a way to spend China to economic safety, writes assistant-professor Victor Shih in his latest analysis of the country's financial policies.

November 13, 2008

Philanthropy is making headway into China, writes China-consultant Paul French in Ethical Corporation. China's rich are more confident and start to give more of their wealth to charity.

November 12, 2008

China's 450 billion euro package has been part of setting the stage ahead of the global financial meeting on Saturday in Washington, says Arthur Kroeber, managing director of the Beijing consultancy Dragonomic.

November 11, 2008

In the midst of many failures, KFC has been one of the best American companies moving into China, argues Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group.

November 10, 2008

This is pretty major, says Arthur Kroeber of the consultancy firm Dragonomics about the four trillion Renminbi (euro 450 billion) investment China's central government into its economy.

November 9, 2008

A good intention only gets you so far, says Rowan Gibson in one of his recent key note speeches. "Intentions are not enough, you also need to get the systems in place, just as we did with quality."

November 8, 2008

"All bets are off now that the credit crisis is lapping at China's shores," says Kaiser Kuo, group director digital strategies of Ogilvy in Beijing in an interview with Adam Schokora.

November 7, 2008

Barack Obama's election has Africa still not put on the political agenda in Washington, writes former New York Times correspondent Howard French, but the continent is solidly on Beijing's roll call

November 6, 2008

Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn explains to the International Herald Tribune why shopping in Beijing is such a delight, compared to other places in the world, well apart from Shanghai perhaps.

November 6, 2008

China consultant and prolific speakers Paul French checked China for signs of crisis and did not like what he saw. "China is looking increasingly stationary," he writes in the weekly Access Asia newsletter.

November 4, 2008

Once or twice per year serial entrepreneur Marc van der Chijs leaves his successful Chinese start-ups behind and goes for an always impressive physical challenge. Later this week he will join the trailwalker race.

November 3, 2008

The trend of individual consumers to organize themselves online for bargains got its corporate equivalent, writes Sam Flemming of CIC in his latest IWOM-update.

November 3, 2008

Xu Ping, senior partner at China's largest law firm King&Wood has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Ms Xu is one of China's most experienced corporate lawyers, representing both foreign and Chinese companies.

November 2, 2008

Our speaker hits the road around Beijing for the New York Times and explains some of its past by exploring the surrounds of China's capital.

November 1, 2008

Getting a thorough insight of what is happening in China's financial systems is becoming crucial as the financial crisis holds the global economy in its grip. Assistant professor Victor Shih of the Northwestern University is one of very few people who get beyond scratching on the surface and explaining the outside world what he sees.

November 1, 2008

David Chang, former CEO of Philips China, part of the Dutch manufacturing giant, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Philips has developed over the past decades into a major player in China's electronics manufacturing industry.

October 31, 2008

Unlike popular believe China's GDP depends only for ten percent on export, not 40 percent, says Arthur Kroeber. The limits the country's exposure against failling export considerably.

October 30, 2008

Big ticket items like cars and apartments have a problem as Chinese consumers delay purchases, says Shanghai-based lawyer Amy Sommers in a podcast. But the central government is adjusting its policies to avert a full blown crisis like elsewhere in the world.

October 29, 2008

Tom Doctoroff, CEO, Greater China, of J. Walter Thompson, has a wide-ranging look at the China-branding trends hit by the milk melamine scandal, pushed by the Beijing Olympics, growth areas like services and the online trends.

October 28, 2008

Are you feeling the impact of the financial crisis? Leading innovator Rowan Gibson, global business strategist and bestselling author provides compelling and practical answers in his new series of keynote speeches and 2-day strategy meetings.

October 27, 2008

China is getting ready to spend its way out of the current financial crisis, says Shanghai-based attorney Amy Sommers in the LA Times.

October 26, 2008

While Chinese take their money out of the Citigroup banks into the Bank of China as a result of the financial unrest, trust for consumer goods is still high, Rein says based on own research.

October 23, 2008

Retail in China shows a healthy growth, suggesting the country might indeed wither the global financial crisis, writes Paul French in the weekly newsletter of Access Asia.

October 22, 2008

As everybody is still guessing how the global financial crisis and a possible recession would affect China, any glimpse of a recession would be new in China, says China consultant Paul French to Sky News. "We are off the map when that happens."

October 22, 2008

Kaiser Kuo gets a nice chance from uberblogger Shel Israel to explain the basic misconceptions of Western media (including bloggers) when it comes to China. Part of a lengthy interview

October 21, 2008

Social networking can also be a language tool, says William Bao Bean, director of italki.com from Shanghai, in a recent article in the South China Morning Post.

October 20, 2008

Fastest mover was Mark Schaub. What triggered off his rise might have been the podcast we did on the milk-melamine crisis: close to one hundred people listened to this podcast and while the others worked pretty well, Mark Schaub's podcast was leading.

October 19, 2008

I think that eventually the number of mobile internet users might surpass the users who go online on a computer, currently it's 80 million mobile internet users out of 260 million who go online in total.

October 18, 2008

China has its fair share of social problems, but none it getting out of control, says Arthur Kroeber. China is not heading for a social crisis, as some assume, he claims. "China has huge social problems, but they are not leading to a crisis. The political system is very stable."

October 17, 2008

Wealthy Chinese and international travelers make the hotel industry a bright spot in China, says Shaun Rein, as major hotel chains announced to expand their investments despite the ongoing financial crisis.

October 15, 2008

Where is the Letter of Credit (L/C), wonders Rich Kuslan at his weblog Asiabizblog. The freeze at the interbanking lending might bring trade with China to a standstill.

October 14, 2008

Social networks like Facebook and MySpace do not take off in China, because its internet users are already hooked on other systems, says Danwei-founder and media expert Jeremy Goldkorn in an interview with CCTV.

October 12, 2008

Real estate prices in China might have come down a bit, for a Chinese his home is still his castle, says real estate expert Sam Crispin in Newsweek.

October 11, 2008

Stock markets worldwide keep on dropping and the effects of the global crisis are stilling heading for China. William Bao Bean discusses the possible fallout of the global financial shake-up on China.

October 9, 2008

The China brand has suffered a severe set back through the milk melamine scandal, after the successful Olympics. Sixty thousand babies with kidney stones is cause tremendous damage, especially in China itself.

October 8, 2008

Only up to a certain degree foreign expats and Chinese are mixing in what has now become one of the largest expat societies in the world, Shanghai, says sociologist James Farrer of the Sophia University in Tokyo

October 6, 2008

China is not very well prepared for the structural economic changes it will face the next six months, argues consultant Paul Denlinger in a China Speakers Bureau podcast with Fons Tuinstra

October 5, 2008

"Avoid Shanghai and Beijing" is the first of a whole set of new investments rules for China, our speaker Paul Denlinger has written down. Very concise he summarizes some of the major changes that have been taking place in China's economic landscape.

September 30, 2008

Marc van der Chijs, co-founder of the successful Chinese video sharing host Tudou and CEO of the online gaming conglomerate Spil Asia is joining the China Speakers Bureau

September 29, 2008

Innovation in Asia is the core theme of the openWebAsia in South-Korea on 14 October. Our Sam Flemming will be one of the key speakers, together with representatives of Alibaba, Ebay Asia and many other online innovative companies.

September 28, 2008

Former CEIBS dean Bill Fischer has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Bill Fischer is a leading authority on business and China. Apart from being a gifted storyteller, he has real stories to tell.

September 27, 2008

The financial downturn in the US has interesting side-effects. Richard Kuslan, lawyer, blogger and speaker at the China Speakers Bureau has been invited by the insurer-in-problems AIG to explain their position in Asia.

September 26, 2008

He still drinks Chinese milk, says lawyer and author Mark Schaub on the ongoing milk melamine scandal in China. "The bigger companies were trusted too much and when it come to food security, you cannot trust anybody."

September 25, 2008

While China's melamine milk scandal has been covered pretty well by the media, we tend to forget Sanlu's foreign partner Fonterra, warns retail-expert Paul French

September 25, 2008

China's netizens are becoming less tolerant for manipulation of their online conversation, says CIC-founder Sam Flemming, a leading authority on the online buzz in China in a CSB podcast. The ongoing melamine milk crisis might be a watershed on how the internet in China works.

September 23, 2008

"These after-the-fact administrative measures miss the point. Regulatory regimes succeed when systemic incentives make market participants behave. These incentives can exist only after separation of the Government from control of prices, company management and information flows."

September 23, 2008

Following a trend in the US, major companies in China have been creating a new kind of job: the social media manager, said Sam Flemming of CIC last week at the Economist China Branding Roundtable. Three of CIC's clients have now hired those social media manager.

September 22, 2008

The success of KFC is not limited to beating the competition, says retired MBA-lecturer Warren Liu on his promotion tour for his book in an interview with state media, but it is also key for the revenue stream of the holding.

September 19, 2008

The eminent environmental lawyer Charles McElwee has brought an extensive knowledge and experience in the US environmental and energy law to China, when he moved to Shanghai a few years ago

September 18, 2008

"Enter the green dragon," was an AmCham Shanghai meeting last week on environmental business where Amy Sommers was the mistress of ceremony. She summarizes in this China Speakers Bureau podcast her findings and some are really stunning.

September 16, 2008

The financial meltdown in the US might have an effect on the China market, but Shaun Rein points at the mitigating effect. "China's economy is still very strong."

September 15, 2008

"With 3G coming and 600 million people on mobile phones it is going to be a very attractive market." VC-entrepreneur William Bao tells why the mobile telecom in China is an attractive market, despite regulatory challenges and risky carrier behavior.

September 13, 2008

Yes, there is nowadays too much in China anyway, says retail investigator Access Asia Director Paul French. No, says market researcher Shaun Rein of CMR, it is all a matter of having a smart strategy.

September 12, 2008

China's domestic online powerhouses have started a shoot-out, but Paul Denlinger says the official privacy argument to stop leading search engine Baidu is plain nonsense.

September 11, 2008

The license China's largest video hosting firm Tudou received today was paramount for getting seriously into the advertising business. After a two-month wait Tudou got its license from the regulatory body SARFT.

September 11, 2008

At the Foreign Correspondents Club in Shanghai, Warren Liu explains the success of KFC, outrunning McDonalds

September 10, 2008

The ultimate test, Rowan Simons calls the win or fail attitude towards China's soccer in the famous CCTV-9 program Dialogue.

September 9, 2008

Jeremy Goldkorn interviews Zhang Lijia for Danwei-tv about her autobiography Socialism is great!, about her life as a worker in a missile factory.

September 8, 2008

Paul Denlinger adds to one of his favorite stories as MySpace loses out in China, following a trend by a larger number of IT-companies from the US.

September 7, 2008

As the number of internet users in China is exploding, more intelligent online marketing is needed, says Shaun Rein, president of the market research company CMR

September 6, 2008

Innovation is a key subject on China's political and economic agenda, so the China Speakers Bureau is happy to represent also this leading business strategist as a speaker. Next to his speaking engagements, Rowan Gibson also conducts Innovation Masterclass events, which are usually one-, two- or three days in duration for both corporate, public and government organizations

September 5, 2008

The former Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times Howard French has joined the China Speakers Bureau as a participant. Currently French is associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

September 4, 2008

National debates on many issues are no exception in China, but now the China soccer team has touched a very raw nerve, as ChinaSmack summarizes. At this stage, disappointed fans seem to pick anything to go after their former Olympic heroes

September 4, 2008

Coca-Cola is coughing up USD 2.4 billion to acquire China's leading juice maker spending much more than the current value of the Chinese company,Analysts have mixed feelings about the purchage.

September 3, 2008

Beijing authorities have plans to keep on using the Olympics to attract tourists for later this year, writes the WSJ, but CMR's Shaun Rein only expects a rebound next year when visa-restrictions are expected to have been cleared

September 3, 2008

One of our most-sought celebrity speakers, Tom Doctoroff, CEO of Greater China, J. Walter Thompson, will be visiting New York from November 25 to 28, a great opportunity for clients in that region to get Tom as a speaker.

September 2, 2008

Paul Denlinger is at his best when he is a bit angry and he is mostly angry after meeting US investors in China. In his weblog he explains there is no China market.

September 1, 2008

Chinese overseas investments are more feared than those from Japan, says consultant Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics in an analysis on China's economic future.

August 31, 2008

In May three Chinese telecom companies started a race for the 3G-technology and according to Paul Denlinger China Telecom is going to defeat current market leader China Mobile.

August 29, 2008

The high expectation of Japanese media on the effects of the Beijing Olympics fell flat, writes sociologist James Farrer from Tokyo

August 27, 2008

Branding in China works differently than elsewhere in the world, marketing guru Tom Doctoroff says in the New York Times, looking back at the Beijing Olympics.

August 26, 2008

"We're going down from stupidly fast last year to really fast this year and just plain ordinary fast next year, which would be in the 8 to 9 percent range," says Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, a Beijing consultancy to Reuters.

August 24, 2008

Our best-seller author Zhang Lijia is going to tour Australia to promote her book "Socialism is Great!" and is treating the domestic media with some great interviews.

August 23, 2008

Moving from tactical online solution to strategic communication is the new challenge to reach online consumers, writes Sam Flemming.

August 22, 2008

Each year economists and policy makers watch IMD in Lausanne as his center announces the annual ranking of the competitiveness of countries in the world. Professor Garelli has top-positions as the adviser of both governments and major corporations.

August 21, 2008

At the first monthly ranking of most-sought speaker, Shaun Rein is a clear winner. Not surprisingly, looking as the successful way he has been getting tracking among the traditional media with his strong analysis on the Olympic sponsorship.

August 20, 2008

Sobbing Chinese have killed one global misconception about the country, the supposed lack of emotions they display, says Kaiser Kuo in an interview with Reuters.

August 18, 2008

Tom Doctoroff attended China's search for its soul at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics. In Adweek he explains how he enjoyed that, while the search is not yet complete.

August 17, 2008

Olympic sponsors have started to lick their wounds and the Financial Times asked our Tom Doctoroff to give their verdicts as marketing experts on a failed Beijing Olympics.

August 15, 2008

KFC in China grew from one to over 1,400 outlets in China, making it into the largest foreign fastfood chain. Retired MBA-lecturer Warren Liu took a step back and analyzed in his book why the eternal number two behind McDonalds took the top position in China.

August 14, 2008

Astroturfing, companies and governments pretending they are a grassroots online movement, is no issue in China, Sam Flemming contends in an issue of the leading Digital Media on the feature.

August 13, 2008

"Foreigners take a very biased view of China. They think that there is no freedom of speech in China. They think that everything is totally like the Cultural Revolution without any voice from the people. But it is not that simple." Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn hits China's leading newspaper Southern Weekend that babtizes him the "fake foreigner".

August 11, 2008

Soccer in China is a government's game , analyzes our soccer specialist Rowan Simons in yet another review of his leading book on this sport. "It is all politics."

August 10, 2008

Lacking reliable data on China's online media is having a debilitating effect on the industry, argues Paul Denlinger in his latest column at China Vortex.

August 9, 2008

The world's most famous Chinese learning institute Chinesepod, set up by Ken Carroll, has developed its own fast track to fame: Olympic Chinese, and was noted by the New York Times.

August 7, 2008

Celebrity author Zhang Lijia expresses her amazement about the ignorance on China she noted when she was on a recent book tour in the United States, and tells why she support the Beijing Olympics

August 6, 2008

The Beijing Olympics will be the first one facing a full scale web2.0 exposure and Ogilviy's new media guru Kaiser Kuo looks at his weblog at the dilemma's.

August 5, 2008

China is ready for democracy, but its 'middle class' is opposing it, writes Arthur Kroeber in the Financial Times.That elite will only stop opposing democracy when it offers them stability in the long term, a guarantee they now get from the current regime.

August 4, 2008

Author Zhang Lijia remembers her youth and tells the world it is about time to stop criticising China. She documents the massive changes the world has been going through but who are not seen by many in the outside world.

August 3, 2008

Shadow companies, with appalling labor right infringements, are the real profit-makers behind state-of-the-arts show cases that should prove foreign buyers they comply with all standards.

August 2, 2008

China and the internet are hitting the international agenda yet again as the Beijing Olympics draw near. That is a good moment to listen to our own internet guru Kaiser Kuo, director digital strategy at Ogilvy in Beijing. Explaining how the internet is changing China in a dramatic way.

July 31, 2008

In another powerful argument Shaun Rein explains to Bloomberg why Olympic sponsoring is not helping the advertisers much in China this year. "Eighty percent of the Chinese does not care who the sponsor is."

July 30, 2008

Olympic advertising touched on specific Chinese sentiments, by using Chinese athletes' parents to get their message out, writes the Wall Street Journal, quoting JWT's Tom Doctoroff.

July 29, 2008

The production of Christmas presents is getting under heavy pressure because of the restrictions on visas for China, tells China-guru Paul French the Guardian. Because buyers, inspectors and others cannot enter China because of the restrictions, our presents might be late or very expensive.

July 28, 2008

Barbara Krug, professor at the leading business school in the Netherlands RSM has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Professor Krug is a leading authority in Europe on China's economic development, particularly its private entrepreneurs. She organizes the China program at RSM.

July 25, 2008

Sam Flemming of CIC explains to the China Business Network how the internet works for companies and organizations outside China. How to manage an online crisis, what is the power of the Chinese B BS's. Sam uses some of his most recent experience in working with corporate clients.

July 23, 2008

A highly respected expert and speaker on China and Asia, Dr. Overholt, senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has decided to join the China Speakers Bureau. In 2008 he published Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics . Dr. Overholt is the writer of the bestseller The Rise of China, one of the most compelling books on China's economic transformation in the 1990s.

July 22, 2008

When Paul Denlinger gets a chance to explain US internet companies how it really works in China, nobody can stop him. "there is a single greater trend, and that is toward greater openness which has been achieved through cheap and easy communications."

July 21, 2008

Amy L. Sommers, partner at Squire, Sandres & Dempsey in Shanghai, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Ms Sommers is an award-winning speaker. In a conversational style she is able to explain complicated legal issues in China in both fluent English and Manderin to lay audiences. Ms. Sommers has a wealth of anecdotes to illustrate the points she want to make.

July 17, 2008

Private equity firms turn increasingly to China as their home markets in Europe and especially the US are dropping very fast, argues Shaun Rein, Managing director of China Market Research (CRM) today in Business Week.

July 15, 2008

Sam Flemming, one of our leading speakers on the Chinese internet, is quoted extensively at the website of CNN on China's online buzz. Flemming is guiding companies in the murky waters of China's internet and does get more and more recognition for his ground-breaking work.