Americans—including Trump and Bessent—wrongly think they can bring China to its knees, says Shanghai-based American business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, at 2Paragraphs.Read More →
Harry Broadman, a former assistant U.S. trade representative in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, tells Politico that China proved to be much less of a pushover than the Trump team expected it to be when they started to impose tariffs. “Whoever is advising him clearly does not understand China.”Read More →
Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, explains why China will not give in to Trump’s demands and why the idea of getting manufacturing back to the US is an illusion Americans should forget, he says at the Thinkers Forum.Read More →
B2B influencers are a key marketing tool in Asia, says Hong Kong-based marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok, but they are not enough on themselves, in Campaign Asia. “At its core, every B2B decision is made by people, not companies, and tapping into their emotions, challenges, and aspirations is key”, she says.Read More →
Al Jazeera looks back at China’s president’s visit to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia. Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein qualifies the trip as a real win for China in the trade war with US President Trump, and China could profile itself as a stable and trusted force in international trade, he says.Read More →
In Al Jazeera, Harry Broadman, a former US assistant trade representative and one of the chief negotiators of the WTO, wonders what Trump’s real plan is with these tariffs when it comes to China, decoupling or ending all business. “He’s obviously a deals guy in real estate, but not international markets … How he thinks is, ‘How can I win and how can I make the opponent lose?’” he said.Read More →
We see some dangerous signs AI is not going to benefit all, but potentially becomes a high risk tool, argues Alvin Wang Graylin, author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, at the Delphi Economic Forum earlier in April. We should all work together to prevent AI from being used as a weapon, he says.Read More →
China’s consumers, workers, and manufacturers look with relative confidence in their country’s position in the tariff war between the US and the rest of the world. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at the social media, memes, comments, and other reactions of the Chinese, she tells at Time.Read More →
After more than a week of confusion after US President Trump imposed and maintained massive tariffs on Chinese goods, one thing is sure, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order. The Chinese will not kowtow to Trump, he tells Moats, and they have won round one.Read More →
China might have the upper hand in dealing with the US president’s efforts to curtail the country’s economy with sky-high tariffs, suggests leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, in the Christian Science Monitor. “The government believes China can sustain the pain longer than the U.S. consumer can … and the U.S. will cave first,” he says.Read More →
The jury is still out on whether Trump’s tariffs on imports from China will hurt the US or China more. But political analyst Victor Shih has seen how China has been anticipating the latest wave of tariffs, he tells CNN. “But China can sustain that (situation) much more so than American politicians can,” he said.Read More →
China can and will use its financial tools to offset the negative effects of the massive tariffs US President Trump has imposed on Chinese goods, says financial expert Winston Ma, adjunct professor at the New York University in a discussion with Bloomberg. China has not been using financial stimuli during and after the Covid crisis unlike the US, and still has the resources to do so now, he says.Read More →