Zhang Lijia, interviewing prostitute in Shenzhen by Fantake via Flickr We have just sent off our September newsletter to the subscribers, with the latest on our speakers, tips on how to get the best speaker (this month about the timing) and many more background information on the China Speakers Bureau.YouRead More →
Image via Wikipedia The famous Chinese IT company Tencent, operator of the popular QQ IM service, will start soon an international leg of its popular application. I have been asked to join QQ and help to moderate its business section. While details are still up in the air, I haveRead More →
Xi Jinping by Amphis d’@illeurs via Flickr Upcoming leader Xi Jinping was to many’s surprise not elected as Vice-president into the Central Military Commission (CMC), a step needed to replace current president Hu Jintao in 2013. Political analyst Victor Shih explains in Bloomberg Hu wants to hang on a littleRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr A very optimistic Shaun Rein expects that China’s luxury market will replace in size the Japanese one already by the end of this year, he tells Bloomberg. Especially the Chinese women have been moving up in the picking order for the more expensive goods.Regardless ofRead More →
Not so polite by Tony Crider via Flickr The relations between the Obama administration and China’s central government have been excellent, despite an averted trade war. But on the internet US and Chinese citizens are stirring up the Sino-US relations, warned Kaiser Kuo earlier this week at a CLSA ChinaRead More →
Jasper Becker by Fantake via Flickr Relatively large changes in our top-10 of most-sought speakers at the China Speakers Bureau for September, compared to August. At least four newcomers, although the top-2, Shaun Rein and Kaiser Kuo remain unchallenged.Highest newcomer is the respected China-author Jasper Becker who appears on theRead More →
Image via Wikipedia One year after the collapse of the US bank Lehman Brothers, capitalism has not died, but the ball game has moved to Asia, with India and especially China as the new players, argues Shaun Rein in a new commentary in Forbes. One year later, the power brokersRead More →
by Fantake via Flickr After the US announced a levy on Chinese tires, many observers feared a possible trade war between two of the world’s largest economies. According to Dragonomics director Arthur Kroeber from Beijing in Finfacts, a repeat of the 1930s trade wars is highly unlikely.Finfacts: Beijing has builtRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Huang Rulun, one of the wealthiest business men in China and a real estate tycoon, tops also the list of top-philantropists, report several state media. According to a report by the Hurun rich list Huang Rulun has spent 580 million Renminbi (58 million euro) in lessRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr A flood of food scandals has put foreign brands in a better position to gain market share in China, says Shaun Rein in an interview with newswire Bloomberg on the Swiss company Nestle.Bloomberg: “The made-in-China label is really damaging and a lot of ChineseRead More →
Image via Wikipedia China’s emissions might be high on the global environmental agenda, but Shaun Rein from Shanghai remembers the polluted days ahead of the country’s economic boom and seem room for optimismm although the level of pollution is ten times as high as in New York, he writes inRead More →
Poet Du Fu via Wikipedia Rock star Kaiser Kuo explains in the China Daily why his band called itself “Tang Dynasty”. Main reason was because of that dynasty’s famously cosmopolitan outlook”.From the China Daily: Kuo and his fellows tried to conjure up the feel of a time when China grew steadilyRead More →