Kaiser Kuo via Wikipedia Baidu’s spokesperson Kaiser Kuo initiated the idea of an English-language weblog to offer the outside world a window on China, he tells the Voice of America. Baidu is China’s largest search engine. The VOA: Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo said he came up with the idea forRead More →
Rupert Hoogewerf via Flickr On average half of China’s millionaires spend at least one million Renminbi (150,000 US dollar or 100,000 euro), says the latest Hurun report according to Chinese media, composed by Rupert Hoogewerf. That is 11 percent more compared to last year. In CRIenglish: Real estate is still theRead More →
Image via Wikipedia China has conducted its first test flights with the Chengdu J-20 Black Eager stealth fighter; reports Wendell Minnick in Defense News. According to Chinese-language news reports, a twin-engine J-20 prototype flew for 18 minutes on Jan. 11 from the “Plant 132 aerodrome” in Chengdu in southwest China.Read More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein met over New Year in Beijing many confident officials, but he sees in Forbes at least three concerns for 2011, inflation on number one: Even though official inflation was 5.1% in November, every day the Chinese feel much more of a squeeze thanRead More →
Kaiser Kuo via Flickr Baidu spokesperson Kaiser Kuo triggered off many comments, as he wrote during the visit of Facebook‘s CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Beijing, that the largest social platform should also come to China. Zuckerberg visited Baidu‘s headquarter and had lunch with its CEO Robin Li. Kaiser Kuo (in theRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Women have been driving the Chinese consumer market for a long time, but now Chinese men are miving in and focusing more on skin care products and other cosmetics, tells Shaun Rein in this discussion on CNBC. Not only foreign brands like L’Oreal, butRead More →
John Harvard, founder via Wikipedia The book publishing service of the China Speakers Bureau made it into the prestigious Nieman Reports of Harvard University. So earlier this year we at the China Speakers Bureau decided to help potential authors get their words published as books. The bureau is a ventureRead More →
Howard French by Fantake via Flickr When Howard French arrived in the 1980s arrived as a foreign correspondent in Ivory Coast it was doing much better than China, he reports in The Atlantic. Now the former Shanghai-correspondent goes back to a depressing country. My frustrations, though, went back even further.Read More →
Not only for space via Wikipedia A supersonic combat aircraft is next on the wishlist of China’s aviation industry, defense specialist Wendell Minnick writes in Defense News. China is looking for a new bomber in the 21th century, meaning also militarizing space. Revealed at the recent 8th China International AviationRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Import into China is growing, the Renminbi might slight appreciate after the Christmas shopping is done and the government is addressing overheating in real estate, tells Shaun Rein Bloomberg. But the real problem is the China IPO bubble developing in the US. (Clip atRead More →
A Tomahawk cruise missile via Wikipedia Taiwan is preparing for a mass production of two kinds of cruise missiles to set off against the perceived threat from the mainland, writes defense expert Wendell Minnick in Defense News. The US has been trying, for now in vain, to kill the program. Taiwan’s DeputyRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Both Maria Korolov and Fons Tuinstra COO and president of the China Speakers Bureau will be joining the radio show by American Entrepreneur Radio at their show with David Iwinsky on international economy. We will be explaining how we run our businesses, covering aRead More →