China veteran Ian Johnson, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR), looks at how the groups of China dissents abroad, have dramatically changed since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, on the CFR-blog. “Long known for being riven by personality disputes and having little impact back in China, overseas activists now seem more united and more plugged into China than before.” he writes.Read More →
Political analyst Victor Shih looks at the seachange that has taken place in China since Xi Jinping took charge. Especially 2015 was the transition year, where Xi and the party even sidelined the previously more powerful state council, he tells at the China Inside Out meeting at the Asia Society in New York, together with his colleagues from the University of California San Diego’s 21st Century China Center (21CCC).Read More →
Investor, attorney, and author Winston Ma dives into the innovations in China and the synergies in US-China relations for the CFA Society in New York.Read More →
In China, things are even more connected than people, writes Winston Ma, Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law, in Europeansting.com, in a thorough overview of the possibilities and challenges of the Internet of Things. Are we ready for the future?Read More →
Two hundred Chinese companies listed in the US thought they would get a pass when the PCAOB accepted late last year the auditing process for those companies. But financial analyst Winston Ma warns there are still significant uncertainties for those firms, as the SEC still indicates on its website those companies are still in danger of being delisted, he tells CNBC.Read More →
After two decades of negotiations, the end game of the struggle between the US and China on listed companies at the NYSE and Nasdaq seems to head into a delisting of 200 listed Chinese firms. Accounting expert Paul Gillis looks back at twenty years of tug wars at Market Place. Moving home, like to the Hong Kong Exchange, might not solve the need for capital, according to Gillis. “The Hong Kong exchange has arguably less liquidity than the U.S. exchanges,” Gillis said. “The investors may find it a little more difficult to get good prices when they’re selling stock.”Read More →
Financial analyst Winston Ma discusses the progress of the plan to delist Chinese companies from US stock markets on CNBC. It’s mostly China that has to comply with the US demands for transparency, he says about this work in progress.Read More →
Compared to the rest of the world, China has the most female billionaires, while Guangzhou tops the list. Rupert Hoogewerf, the Hurun Rich list chief researcher, explains why China and especially Guangzhou is doing better than other countries in Money Control. Read More →
More Chinese cities overtake New York in their number of resident billionaires, Shenzhen being the latest, says Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of the Hurun global rich list to NBC. “It is a significant indicator of where Shenzhen has come from and where it is going,” he said.Read More →
China’s tech firms have faced US listing limitations on both US and China regulations. China lawyer Mark Schaub look at the new issues tech firm face on data, privacy, VIE’s, and other regulations for listing in the US at the vlog of his law firm KWM.Read More →
Just a week after Didi’s massive IPO at the US stock market, the company faces a crackdown by China’s authorities. Business analyst Ben Cavender sees a hit to other Chinese firms, contemplating a US IPO: go to one of China’s stock markets to avoid problems, he tells at RTHK.Read More →
E-commerce firm Shein from Nanjing has been operating much under the radar, until last week it last week came with plans of an IPO in New York with a valuation of US$47 billion. E-commerce expert Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance” explains at Yahoo Finance what Shein has been doing right. Read More →