Image via Wikipedia Seventy percent of the M&A deals end up badly for the shareholders, research from his Shanghai company CMR group has shown, writes Shaun Rein today in Forbes. Too often companies put together matches that look great on paper but are fraught with management and structural problems thatRead More →
William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr The global music industry hopes to tap into the revenue streams in Asia, writes the Hollywood Reporter, But VC William Bao Bean does not give them a lot of hope to make a buck in China as the country has no tradition ofRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr The famous Chinese journalist and author Zhang Lijia will visit Belgium and the Netherlands (especially Amsterdam) for a short visit. Her groundbreaking book ““Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China has just appeared in Dutch. She will be in Amsterdam from 14Read More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Only by loosening the ties for private companies, who are in an disadvantaged position compared to state-owned enterprises, China can keep an economic growth of annually 8 percent, Arthur Kroeber explains in The Telegraph from the UK. Faced with a decline in export demandRead More →
Image via Wikipedia When a Chinese company who never build a car bought the Hummer from GM, one of the largest problems of the Detroit car giant, many predicted huge problems. But Shaun Rein tells Forbes he sees also some positive sides on the deal. The assumption is that theRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shanghai might be better prepared to deal with its Worldexpo2010 compared to what happened with the Beijing Olympics, although Shaun Rein at CNBC is not without worries.The city is pumping the equivalent of 45 billion US dollar into the city, but unlike Beijing, ShanghaiRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr While China and the US are edging towards each other, the emergences of a new world order, excluding some of the old and upcoming new forces, is a distant prospect at best, writes Arthur Kroeber in todays Financial Times. It is perfectly accurate toRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Just days ahead of June 4, celebrity author Zhang Lijia remembers in the New Work Times her May-days in 1989 when she helped to organize demonstraties, like they took place all over China, adding to the concerns of the leadership in Beijing.Despite the setbacksRead More →
Xu Ming, currently the Asia-Pacific director of the IEDE business school from Madrid and a former Chinese diplomat in Latin America, has joined the China Speakers Bureau as a speaker. From our profile: As a former diplomat in Latin America, Xu Ming is not only a fluent Spanish-speaker, but alsoRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia gets many positive reviews for her book “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, but a review in the Washington Post is still a milestone. From the review: In “Socialism Is Great!” Zhang recounts her quest forRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Just like Japan in the 1980s China is now going overseas in a major shopping spree to spend a part of its USD two trillion in foreign reserves. But that is where the similarities stop, says Shaun Rein in a commentary on NPR. WhileRead More →
Image via Wikipedia In the latest newsletter for May 2009 of the China Speakers Bureau we make clear China will not, and does not want to.But China is offering the world unprecedented opportunities, as part of its 1.5 trillion US dollar in foreign reserves are being spent. Our speakers canRead More →