The blockage of the Street of Hormuz threw the world into a fuel crisis, while China was able to fend off most of the effects. China veteran Kaiser Kuo describes how the strategy of electrification offered a way for China to avoid the spike in fuel prices, although it is not clear if other countries can copy this strategy, he explains at the World Economic Forum.Read More →
Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into the successful innovation strategy that has allowed China technology giant Huawei to play the development game differently from its international competitors; she writes on her website, Chozan. “For business leaders trying to understand where China is headed, Huawei is not simply a telecom company to watch,” she writes.Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, discusses the push for a war with China, now that NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has identified China as the real enemy for the organisation, even though China is eager to improve relations with European countries, he tells George Galloway at Moats. Read More →
AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin discusses the AI race between China and the US with James M. Lindsay at the Council of Foreign Relations. He explains why the current priorities for winning that race are fundamentally wrong.Read More →
Turning AI into a paid platform is a key criterion for China’s success, writes marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok on her weblog, as video AI has become a major commercial success in setting up paid platforms. “Chinese video AI has become one of China’s clearest tests for artificial intelligence commercialization. The category is being judged by paid usage, creator demand, and platform placement,” she writes.Read More →
Xiaomi took off as a successful mobile phone company, but has moved into a wide range of industries, explains consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok on her weblog ChoZan. “Xiaomi EV matters because it shows how a consumer technology company can move into cars quickly, with pricing confidence and ecosystem depth,” writes Dudarenok.Read More →
In China, many citizens looked with admiration at the US, but those days are certainly over, says London-based journalist Zhang Lijia, author of Lotus: A Novel, in an opinion piece at the South China Morning Post. Trump forced educated Chinese to rethink long-held assumptions about democracy, modernity, and the direction of history itself, she argues.Read More →
The US has put a row of larger Chinese commercial firms on its Pentagon blacklist for connections with China’s military, including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, CATL, Unitree, Xiaomi, Huawei and chipmaker CXMT. “It signals that the definition of strategic technology has expanded dramatically, says Winston Ma, adjunct professor at NYU, across a range of media.Read More →
Digital strategy expert Bjorn Ognibeni explains why Western retail continues to miss what we are missing from the way China is developing, in an interview with Philipp Labrovsky at Omni Strategies. How the market economy and competition really make China strong.Read More →
China’s car makers take the lead in developing their software-driven industry, and innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok explains how the global industry can learn from their Chinese competitors in her weblog.Read More →
China, Africa, and the US are pretty different bedfellows when it comes to trade, says political analyst Harry Broadman to Al Jazeera. China seems to have a better understanding of Africa, where the US was in the past mainly focused on opening the African markets for its own benefit, he adds.Read More →
In the short run, the trade deficit between China and Africa might grow. Still, in the long run, China has a profound interest in helping Africa to develop its economy, including the abolishment of trade tariffs for most African countries, says business analyst Shaun Rein at Al Jazeera. Now China focuses on getting raw material, but its interest is broader, he adds.Read More →