China veteran Mark Schaub discusses how China changed since it introduced the 1995 Employment Law and how it impacted the way foreign businesses could work. Before 1995 few people had a written labor contract, but since the introduction of the law much changed for workers and lawyers, he explains.Read More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu discusses her book China’s fintech explosion, at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and how this fast-moving subject she captured in her book.Read More →
China internet guru Matthew Brennan summarizes his bestseller Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance and explains how Tiktok developed from a successful domestic tool for millennials into a short-video platform that even caught the attention from US President Donald Trump.Read More →
Former White House official Harry Broadman discusses the future of relations between China and its trade partners. He hopes and expects that after Joe Biden takes over from current US President Donald Trump collective action between trade partners will be higher on the agenda, he tells Bloomberg. With a strong focus on Canada.Read More →
Western brands are often shocked by the fees they have to pay to retain bloggers in China. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains why bloggers in China work differently and actually do no need brands for their operation. They can create their own brands, so do not need the Western ones, unless they pay, she says.Read More →
China’s biggest change over the past two years has been the development of its retail ecosystem, says marketing veteran Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog. Not only by thinking it out, but by implementing a change that has affected retail profoundly.Read More →
Despite the trade tensions between China and the US, many tech companies from China still turn to American stock markets for their need for capital. Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean explains why China’s markets can still not match the capital requirements of domestic companies, he tells at Emerge 2020.Read More →
China’s Single’s Day continued to be a runaway success after COVID-19, although e-commerce expert Ashley Dudarenok finds it hard to compare it with the previous events because it changed from a one-day event to an 11-days success. But more luxury brands, cars, and even McDonald’s joined the fray, and gamification become important, she tells at state-owned broadcaster CGTN.Read More →
The new US president Biden will be treating China in a multi-lateral fashion, not bilateral, like Donald Trump who saw trade basically as a real-estate transaction, says former White House trade negotiator Harry Broadman to BNN Bloomberg. China has ignored its trade obligations since admission into the World Trade Organization in 2001, he says, and Broadman does not expect another line now Trump has shaken that international boat.Read More →
Journalist and academic Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao discusses why religion has become such an important issue in China, both in domestic and international debates at the Bridge Projects.Read More →
China’s upcoming digital currency is the last example of how the country is economically going to outrun the US and the rest of the world, says Singapore-based superinvestor Jim Rogers. Of course, the country has collapsed a few times too, but unlike other cultures, it is able to rise again, he says.Read More →
Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean explains that entering a new market means leaving behind the experience to collected in the past, leave behind your cultural baggage, and learn from your mistakes. William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV – The Accelerator VC – the #2 most active angel and seed-stage investors in the world 2019 with US$700m under management.Read More →