The position of women in China has changed profoundly, says Zhang Lijia, author and expert on China’s cultural change in The Persistent. “Growing up in China, I was told marriage was my destiny. For today’s young women, it’s a choice – and one many are rejecting,” she says.Read More →
The march of industrial inspection robots is changing power, pipeline inspection, and hazardous site automation, writes innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok at her website. “China operates one of the world’s largest networks of power transmission assets, industrial facilities, municipal utility systems, and transportation infrastructure. Maintaining these assets requires frequent inspections under challenging operating conditions,” she writes.Read More →
Winston Ma, Professor at NYU School of Law and former North America Head of China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund CIC, explains how the dramatic drop in valuation of Shein looks like what happened to Zoom during COVID, as he tells Asia One. Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein clashes at North Meridian with former Trump ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands on what Trump is achieving on China, Trump’s trade strategy, Taiwan, Iran, and whether Washington still has the leverage over Beijing that it thinks it does. Rein is the author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order.Read More →
Drug deals dominated much of the international relations between biotech companies. But now, another change: the way China’s biotech companies structure their innovation shows a major shift, known widely as “NewCo,” says long-term China lawyer Mark Schaub on the website of his law firm, King&Wood.Read More →
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok analyses on her website 25 of China’s most famous brands and looks into how they change the world, both in China and globally. They include Anta, Li-Ning, Bosideng, Ep Yaying and many others.Read More →
AI innovation expert Alvin Wang Graylin explains why the AI fight between China and the US is wrongly seen as a zero-sum game. The struggle is wrongly perceived as a race to a finish line, but that line does not exist, he tells at Moonshots.Read More →
Ian Johnson, author of China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future and founder and director of China Unofficial Archives, discusses critical issues facing China at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. “Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future”.Read More →
Robots and automation are taking over many industries in China. Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into the restaurant industry, where the change for waiters has already been profound, she writes at ChozanRead More →
China’s citizens have profoundly changed their view of the United States and their president, Trump, journalist Zhang Lijia writes at Democracy Asia. He is called the “nation builder”, helping to improve the global standing of the country worldwide. “Many Chinese believe his erratic behaviour and foreign policy blunders weakened the United States and gave China greater diplomatic room to manoeuvre,” she writes. Read More →
In the past, China purchased licenses to sell medicines from Western companies. But today, China sells its own medicines to the West. The previously attractive market has changed profoundly, says China lawyer Mark Schaub on the website of his law firm King&Wood. “For many international companies if the question is “How do we sell into China?” then they may be increasingly playing yesterday’s game,” he writesRead More →
AI and robots are taking over many industries in China. Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok sees how robots take over the country’s warehouses; she explains on her blog, Chozan. “This is a fundamental rewiring of how goods move through the world’s largest manufacturing and e-commerce economy,” she writes.Read More →