Despite legitimate concerns, like quality control and food inflation, the purchase of America’s largest meat producer Smithfield by China’s Shuanghui is a deal that can only deliver winners, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein in the New York Times.Read More →
Hong Kong retail is booming, as mainland shoppers in first-tier cities saw wages going up 12% in 2013, says business analyst Shaun Rein on CNBC. But consumer confidence is still weak, especially middle-class men who are fearing wage stagnation as investments drop.Read More →
Maybe the recent bird flu was not as bad as SARS ten years ago, but the fear for a pandemic has certainly damaged business in China, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in NPR’s Marketplace. Read More →
Gambling enclave Macau faces some stagnation and looks with envy how its US counterpart Las Vegas is doing. Business analyst Ben Cavender tells the Macau Business Daily how Macau can follow in the footsteps of America’s iconic gambling city.Read More →
Macau used to be the first spot for Chinese to gamble with their money. But the enclave is losing its attraction and business analyst Ben Cavender looked at the reasons why Macau is losing its competitive edge to other regional hotspots, at CalvinAyre.com. They should offer more that just gambling for the hard core addict, he says.Read More →
Foreign milk companies are gearing up for the China market. But they should not underestimate the potential competition by domestic companies, tells business analyst Shaun Rein to Reuters. “They can have the best of both worlds.”Read More →
Dreams about the future have been important for China and the Chinese over the past decades, but what they dream about has been changing dramatically. Business analyst Shaun Rein discussed those changing dream with Daftblogger, and the increased search for quality.Read More →
The Vagina Monologues made it after a long time onto the stage at the China Media University, it would not be a piece for a mainstream Chinese theater. Author Zhang Lijia visited the first performance, and had a great time, she writes on her weblog.Read More →
In its 2013 Defence white paper Australia is not seeing China as an adversary, but picks a position between the two power blocks, the US and China, notes military analyst Wendell Minnick in Defense News. In China it sees “a strategic partner”.Read More →
Celebrity author Paul French flew out in person from Shanghai to receive in New York the prestigious Edgar Best Fact Crime award for his book “Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. Report from CSmonitor.Read More →
When Chinese dissidents moved in the past to the US, whatever influence they had in their home country would fade away. But the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is different, discovered author and friend Zhang Lijia in visits to his home town and in calls to the US, she writes in the New York Times. Read More →
As the conflict about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands heats up yet another time, it is useful to recognized the meaning of the signals Beijing is sending out. Military analyst Wendell Minnick picked up for Defense News some reading tips from Taiwanese Defense experts.Read More →