William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr Why are technology companies from Asia seldom very innovative? William Bao Bean, partner with Softbank China & India Holdings, tells Business Week the explanation is pretty simple. “You need something revolutionary to come along in the U.S. to really make an outsize return,”Read More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr In A Changing China, the recently released book by the China Speakers Bureau, celebrity author Zhang Lijia recalls how she, as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing, organized a demonstration to support the students in Beijing: It’s been 20 years. Yet IRead More →
Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Kaiser Kuo has been one of very few foreigners witnessing and participating over the past decades in China’s rock scene.In the publication of the China Speakers Bureau, A Changing China, he uses it as a parallel of China’s development: The rock scene has followedRead More →
Howard French by Fantake via Flickr Talk to somebody in Africa, and in their second sentence they will mention China and the Chinese, diving into the economic possibilities of what long has been seen as a lost country. Howard French, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times in bothRead More →
Steve Jobs via CrunchBase Shaun Rein is a fan of Steve Jobs as a leader and has both his house and office stuffed with Apple applications. But unfortunately, Steve Jobs and Apple get it very wrong, when it comes to dealing with their suppliers in China, Shaun Rein writes inRead More →
Janet Carmosky by Fantake via Flickr Kaiser Kuo, the most quoted person in the Google/China brawl, has solidified his position in the top-10 most-sought speakers of April. A remarkable achievement, since Shaun Rein, our number two, has been beating his drum also in a major way in the mainstream media.WeRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Leading economic analyst Arthur Kroeber tackles in the Washington Post five myths many people have about China’s economy. Some of the misunderstandings: China will overtake the US economy very soon. China is holding the US hostage through its huge amount of treasure bonds.And theRead More →
Hurun by Fantake via Flickr Rupert Hoogewerf or Hurun – founder of the China Rich List – participated in the China (Shanghai)Boat Show 2010 to announce the 2010 Asian Marine and Boating Awards.In Sail-World he explained his optimism about the yachting industry in China: ‘There is huge potential for theRead More →
Queen Mary’s by suburbanslice via Flickr In the past few days, the China Speakers Bureau discovered that criminals were approaching some of our speakers for what proved to be a scam, involving names of faculty at Queen Mary, University of London. In an email message to those individual speakers –Read More →
Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr When the central government fails to rein massive spending at a local level, China might face an inflation of up to 15 percent by 2012, tells professor Victor Shih to BusinessWeek. The article focuses on Chongqing, the largest city in China in terms ofRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr According to any standard China’s property market is acting crazy, but – tells Arthur Kroeber the Business Spectator – it might be “sustainable madness”.Kroeber: “There is no question that much of it is irrational, but we tend to think the irrationality can last aRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The US has delayed a critical report on the needed appreciation of China’s Renminbi with three months, giving the Chinese government the possibility to test and possibly change in currency policy, says Shaun Rein to CNBC. Rein expects 1 or 2 percent appreciation ofRead More →