Image by r5d4 via Flickr With the US dollar in decline as the leading global currency, the financial world is looking for alternatives. China’s currency, the Renminbi, is not going to be one, writes Arthur Kroeber in the Financial Times. The Renminbi might be expanding its global network, but thatRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia continues to win over new audiences, here in an interview with the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais (in a Google Translate induced translation). “I was born in a working class family. My mother worked in a military missile factory in Nanjing.Read More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Yet another movie about the Japanese atrocities in Nanjing is causing an uproar in China, writes the LA Times . Celebrity author and Nanjing native Zhang Liji a tries to explain why giving the Japanese soldiers a human face is still a hard sell in China. TheRead More →
Image by jiazi via Flickr Victor Shih attended yesterday a China conference of the “Friends of Europe” in Brussels, together with Levin Zhu, the CEO of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s souverain fund. Shih addressed the danger of China banking literally on its future, by increasing its debts forRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr At the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have been doing some bean counting again and have made our monthly top-10 of most-sought speakers. (Here you can find the April 2009 one.) Some fast upwards movements in positions, although more than halfRead More →
Our celebrity author Paul French will have his newest book in the book stores from June 1: Through the Looking Glass: China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao. The historical account of foreign correspondents in China, who have played such an important role in shaping the Western perception ofRead More →
Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Our speaker, assistant-professor Victor Shih will be debating coming Tuesday in Brussels with Levin Zhu, the CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CIC) on the future of China. His session “Countering the global recessions. Is China an economic threat or a locomotive ofRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Much criticism is heard about how China is spending its 4 trillion Renminbi (430 billion euro) stimulus package against the economic crisis and especially private companies seem to be left out, says Arthur Kroeber in a wide range of US newspapers. “My suspicion is thatRead More →
Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr In a few hours the China Speakers Bureau will open the doors of our second Global China Chat of today with CIC-founder Sam Flemming. After a busy hour of discussing with Asia and Europe, the second chat is focusing on the times zones inRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr The China Speakers Bureau is hosting on Thursday 14 May two sessions with CIC’s founder Sam Flemming on social networks in China, brand, consumers and how they interact with technology of the now-famous start-up CoverItLive.com. At the first announcement of this Global China Chat youRead More →
Charles McElwee by Fantake via Flickr The efforts by China’s environmental authorities to ban the popular plastic bags from their supermarkets has been met with a lot of skepticism. But according to environmental lawyer Charles McElwee the introduction of the ban is now getting into phase 3 and really getting serious.Read More →
Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr While China’s bean counters try to stress positive figures in its economic development, assistant-professor Victor Shih sees very troublesome signals as prices for industrial goods fall by huge percentages over the first three months of 2009. From his weblog: I strongly suggest readers takeRead More →