Cheap production is shifting to countries like Cambodja and Indonesia, as the Chinese government targets a firm rise of the country’s wages, to improve domestic consumption, notes business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC, returning from a trip to Indonesia.Read More →
Europe is hoping to tap into China’s foreign reserves, but at the same time try to keep on talking tough on trade issues. Europe should get its act together before they turn to China, tells Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC. And China has become more purdent in bailing out other economies.Read More →
Author Zhang Lijia discusses at CriEnglish the moral crisis of China, after the death of toddler Yueyue was overrun and ignored by bypassers triggered of a fierce debate. Is it time for a law to force citizens to rescue others, she wonders.Read More →
After a decade, internet enthusiast and rock star Kaiser Kuo wrote his last column “Ich bin ein Beijiner” in The Beijinger, his take on his new home town in China. But he is not gone, he notes: “I’m not going anywhere, and you’ll know where to find me.” Kuo is currently spokesperson for search engine Baidu.Read More →
The United States are using China’s currency, the Renminbi, as a scapegoat to hide its economic problems are created by themselves, argues economic analyst Arthur Kroeber in The New York Times. China is using its currency as a development tool, as so many countries did in the past.Read More →
While the bears are out in full force again on China and the global economy, economic analyst Arthur Kroeber is not expecting an economic crash in China anytime soon, he tells The Guardian.Read More →
No, says business analyst Shaun Rein, when he has to answer the questions whether China should use its foreign currency reserves to support the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). In CNBC he argues that Europe should hold up its own financial pants.Read More →
Is China able and willing to bail out Europe? Political and financial analyst Victor Shih does not exclude the possibility, but he tells in Global Post, if China does so, it is not going to boast about it in public. What are the effects of China’s own debt problems on the world?Read More →
The decision by the US administration to ban the sale of F-16’s to Taiwan might cost the US economy US$1 trillion, according to a US analysis, writes defense expert Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Taiwan lobbyists find here new ammunition against the ban.Read More →
Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering’s marine arm, ST Marine, has incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary, ST Marine (Wuhan) Engineering Design Consultancy, in Hubei Province, China, writes defense analyst Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Read More →
Celebrity author Zhang Lijia is annoyed by the British colonial attitude towards China, as urban myths on dog meat, donkey penises and other ‘weird’ food get the major focus the British, ignoring the country’s great cuisine, she writes in The Guardian.Read More →
American retailers have a hard time surviving outside their home turf, compared to European and Asian companies, retail analyst Paul French tells Reuters. Wal-Mart had to close stores and saw staff arrested because of price manipulation and mislabeling food products in their stores.Read More →