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 →
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 →