At the China Speakers Bureau, we offer a news service that utilizes various social media platforms to let you stay ahead of the latest China business news. We know from our own experience that a lot of nonsense is published about China, so on our social media accounts, we try to filter out the most sensible news. We focus on English news that is not behind a firewall, as far as we can see. We try to avoid blatant propaganda, whether it is from Chinese media or non-Chinese, although sometimes it might not be perfect.Read More →

When DeepSeek took on ChatGPT last year, the Chinese innovation took the world by surprise. Today, more Chinese companies are competing on world markets, achieving varying levels of success. Whether we talk about EVs, fighter jets, consumer retail, container ships, self-driving cars, or the movie industry, the world has to pay attention to what is coming from China. Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok has begun adjusting her traditional speaking topics to reflect new developments.Read More →

The year of the Snake will be rough for China, from all kinds of perspectives. Its major trade partners, The US and the EU have started to take China seriously,  but that is not always good news. The economy is under pressure, and although some Chinese conglomerates are doing fine in their global aspirations, consumer confidence, real estate, and finance are still in the doldrums. One thing is for sure, 2025 is not going to be a boring year.Read More →

Shaun Rein, author of  The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, uses a well-deserved holiday in Thailand for a signing session of his latest book. And to his surprise, the first buy was Thailand’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary of Thailand, Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara.Read More →

China veteran and lawyer Mark Schaub, senior partner at King & Wood Mallesons, has released a new book Unlocking International Joint Ventures: Keys to Formation Success through Cultural, Commercial, and Legal Decision-Making together with Dr. Alan MacCharles, partner at Deloitte Consulting. Read More →

High praise for the book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, co-authored by Alvin Wang Graylin on how AI and the metaverse will format our future, by Carol Goyal in Brand Equity.Read More →

AI and XR expert Alvin Wang Graylin, co-author of  Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, discusses in a virtual fireside chat with Dr. Tom Furness, co-founder of the Virtual World Society (VWS), the current state of XR. Graylin, Global VP of Corp. Dev., HTC, recently took the helm of the VWS as board chairman.Read More →

China veteran Ian Johnson, author of China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future (September 2023), announces he will leave as senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and move from New York to Berlin. He will work as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and work from Berlin starting on July 1, 2024, writing a new book on the misuses of religion in Xi’s China in the summer of 2024.Read More →

Book reviews of Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future by China veteran and Pulitzer prize winner Ian Johnson start to come in, rightfully, like this overview in Public Discourse by Robert Carle. “In Sparks, Ian Johnson tells the stories of people such as Lin Zhao and Hu Jie—Chinese journalists and filmmakers who explore the darkest episodes of Chinese communism, often at great risk to themselves.”Read More →