Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr China faces this year unprecedented challenges, tells Arthur Kroeber the Wall Street Journal on the day the annual National People Congress (NPC) starts its meeting. “Last year, Beijing had a simple strategy and a simple message: lend as much money as necessary to keepRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr China’s debts, caused by its massive rescue plan of the past few years, might trigger off a crisis as debts rise to almost 100 percent of its GDP in a worst case scenario, says professor Victor Shih in Business Week. “The worst case isRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Rupert Hoogewerf, compiler of the Hurun Rich List, describes China’s growing number of billionaires as its “new  nobility, in the Global Times. The Global Times: In his eyes, a billionaire in Beijing should usually own three houses, a villa in suburb, a condominium in theRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr China should resist calls from the US to strengthen its current, since that would have a negative effect on the job market, even though many American says China is not playing the game fair, argues Shaun Rein in BusinessWeek.  Those voices include the famous NewRead More →

Janet Carmosky, one of our authors by Fantake via Flickr The monthly newsletter of the China Speakers Bureau is due tomorrow. We have a report on how our speakers try to explain the unexplainable: Google and China. The first of a new sequel of CBS trends, now on the issueRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Internet watcher Kaiser Kuo is very enthusiastic about an emerging feature on the Chinese internet, Chinese bloggers who translate what is happening at the Chinese internet into English. From AFP: “Bridge blogs have become an incredibly precious resource,” said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based InternetRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Victor Shih has been counting how much local Chinese entities have been lending to outspend the economic crisis. His conservative estimation, on his website,  1.6 trillion US dollar: The data are far from perfect because borrowing by low-level government entities and lending by smallRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Just in time to convey you with the best wishes for the year of the tiger, at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have done our home work again and figured out who were the most popular speakers of this month.Read More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The story that China will collapse sells books and magazines, but according to Shaun Rein the bubble in the real estate is not going to be that trigger. In Forbes he tells why some of the doomsday sayers are wrong: Why? Because China’s undergroundRead More →

The book ‘A Changing China’, written by a selection of the speakers at the China Speakers Bureau is now available for purchase. Not yet in a bookstore nearby, but most certainly at Amazon. In the book more than a dozen China veterans tell how they have seen China change. WithRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Best-selling author Zhang Lijia of the book “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China has been touring Europe, including Italy, France and the first reports on her book tour are coming in. Here Zhang Lijia is in Milan, explaining Italian media how ChinaRead More →