Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok dives on het weblog into the successful Chinese platform Xiaohongshu, outside China also known as the Little Red Book or RedNote. Now that the platform is expanding beyond China and Chinese travellers, the world is taking note of this feature.Read More →
China was pretty well off in the first month of the Iran war, but its economy is now feeling the backlash that other economies already felt earlier because of the lack of energy, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein at the Thinkers’ Forum. Now the global economy is going to hit a wall, he adds.Read More →
While spending of China’s consumers is still tight, some issues like sustainability make a difference in retail, says consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok in ChoZan. She explains why green should also be practical for them.Read More →
How far is China ahead of the Western world? Bjorn Ognibeni advised German companies over the past twenty years on their China policies and looks into this question at the Evolve Commerce Club.Read More →
Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into Doubao AI, one of the main contenders in China’s AI race for ChoZan. “ByteDance integrates the assistant into its social, cloud, and hardware ecosystems,” she writes.Read More →
China’s robots made headlines as the year of the horse took off. Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok looks under the hood of this development and tells what makes those robots unstoppable in the Jing Daily.Read More →
Some rumours suggest China will use the ongoing geopolitical tension to prepare for a takeover of Taiwan. Wrong, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, in a wide-ranging podcast with Cyrus Janssen at the Singjup0st. “Every six months,” says Rein, “somebody hires me since the late 90s, saying, This is the perfect time for Taiwan to be invaded and taken over by mainland China.’ And so every six months for the last 29 years, I’ve been giving speeches, keynotes, workshop sessions, because I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon.”Read More →
Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein looks at the impact the Iran war might have on China if the hostilities go on for two months or more. The fallout might last for years to come, not only for the US but also for China, he tells OAN.Read More →
The demands of China’s consumers have changed profoundly, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok, in an interview at CNBC. “People are not just buying things,” she said at CNBC in a phone call. “They’re buying feelings, they’re buying identity, they’re buying a sense of connection.”Read More →
Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, dives into the upheaval in the Middle East and explains how a possible US financial crisis could make China the world’s largest economy, as he tells in a discussion with David Lin. Chinese feel Trump is the best thing that could happen to China, he adds.Read More →
Hong-Kong-based marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into four different social media campaigns Western brands cannot ignore, he explains on her website Chozan. “Successful campaigns in this environment rarely rely on simple advertising. Instead, they’re bespoke experiences: they speak the language of local memes, festivals, and internet jokes, and they invite users to participate rather than passively consume content,” she says Read More →
AI was a keyword in China’s 15th five-year plan, running from 2026 to 2030. “These are kind of concrete examples that big tech companies are taking actions to try to engage everyday people with advanced AI,” said Winston Ma, author of “The Digital War” and adjunct professor in the global AI-digital economy at Bastille Post.Read More →