China watcher Kaiser Kuo discusses Western narratives on China’s rise. Technology did not beat authoritarian regimes, he explains, just as other Western views on China were profoundly wrong. The Arab Spring uprising was the first sign technology did not bring repression down, but not the last one, he argues.Read More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu looks at China’s post-corona recovery, which looks encouraging, although the good news is spread unevenly along the services sector, the smaller companies, and some regions, she tells at the state broadcaster CGTN.Read More →
China was a copy-cat country for long, but has moved away from its IP infringements, says business consultant Ben Cavender. Innovation is a keyword in its development, and most IP infringement cases in court are between Chinese companies, he adds. Read More →
London-based branding expert Arnold Ma discusses what the Tiktok deal with Oracle and Walmart might mean for its users outside China, at the state broadcaster CGTN. Who is hosting the user data is the key question to ask, he says.Read More →
Did get Oracle the Tiktok deal because it cozied up to the US president more than any of the other US companies, wonders international trade expert Harry Broadman at CNBC. Many questions remain after Microsoft was replaced by Oracle.Read More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu, co-author of the 2020 publication “China’s fintech explosion”, discusses how tech companies became the leaders in fintech, leaving the country’s giant banks behind. She addresses an online panel of USC’s US-China Institute and explains how an underserved community offers a fertile basis for the fintech explosion.Read More →
China has become an easy scapegoat for the COVID-19 pandemic, while now it is in better shape than most other countries in the world, says super-investor Jim Rogers from Singapore. “Blaming foreigners is a normal habit during crises,” he adds.Read More →
The US should improve its infrastructure, just as China did, says business analyst Shaun Rein at the CGTN. He looks back at his 23 years in China, and how traveling has become so much easier, because of heavy investments in the fast speed railways network in the country.Read More →
China watcher Kaiser Kuo opens a panel on innovation in China at the (pre-corona) AMR Festival 2019 discussing how the West had flipping narratives on how the technology works in an authoritarian climate. And both say more about the China observers in the West than China itself, Kaiser argues.Read More →
Jack Ma’s Ant Group is heading for a listing at the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets, for possibly up to 300 billion US dollars, the largest in the world ever. Business analyst Shaun Rein looks into the company’s background and its largest success in China, Alipay, on the BBC.Read More →
China and the US might have their first evaluation of their 6-month old trade agreement soon, but the cross-currents between both countries are here to stay, says Berkeley Research Group managing director Harry Broadman to Bloomberg Markets. China kept largely its promises, while the US cannot afford to take on China in a more aggressive way, he says.Read More →
Bytedance is negotiating the sale of popular video streaming app Tiktok with Microsoft, now it became into hot water with an executive ban by US President Donald Trump. Business analyst Arnold Ma tells CGTN why that might be a good deal for Bytedance, since it has 60 apps in China, not just a few like most tech companies, and might focus on those other apps. Even the price, 10 billion US dollars for a company valued at 120 billion, is not bad for an app that only exists for three years, he adds.Read More →