China’s automotive industry has traditionally taken a backseat compared to global competitors, but is planning a major overtake when it comes to pushing startups on self-driving, says China lawyer Mark Schaub in the Asia Nikkei. “In China, if you always wait till the law comes into effect, you are six months to a year behind what the regulators are saying,” Schaub said.Read More →
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Johnson discusses the relations between China and the US, journalism, and much more in his speech and Q&A at the CSUSB Modern China Lecture Series.Read More →
In the early days, KFC and McDonald’s tried to conquer China’s consumers with a standard US menu. Now diversification and localization have become a key feature in the success of both fast-food chains, although the road has not been without bumps, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok to the Panda Daily.Read More →
Traditionally conservative sovereign wealth funds are a wrongfully ignored player at developing the digital economy, says financial analyst Winston Ma, author of The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace, at the Investment Magazine.Read More →
Leading economist Arthur Kroeber sees state capitalism in China not collapsing and certainly not going downhill as Japan’s economy did in the past. He addresses a panel at CSIS Online on how the world can face the second-largest economy.Read More →
China’s digital war with the US has entered a new phase with the successful IPO of short-video giant Kuaishou at the Hong Kong stock market, says Winston Ma, author of The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace, to Bloomberg.Read More →
The aging founders of the first-generation modern companies in China are trying to survive their first generational switch and private equity funds try to help them digitize their operations to move on, says Winston Ma, adjunct professor at New York University School of Law and former managing director of the sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) in the Global Finance Magazine.Read More →
Former White House official Harry Broadman looks at how US President Biden will act differently than his predecessor Trump. Biden will seek more alliances to face China on the international field, he tells at Bloomberg. Biden will listen to others, unlike Trump, Broadman adds.Read More →
Renowned speaker Winston Wenyan Ma has decided to join the China Speakers Bureau. Winston Ma is a former managing director at China Investment Corporation (CIC), adjunct professor at NYU, investor, attorney, and author on the global digital economy.Read More →
Real estate giant Wanda Commercial got a US$4.4 billion investment from Tencent, a major tech player. A move that is very smart for Wanda, says business analyst Ben Cavender, as it wants to get ready for a now successful IPO in Shanghai, according to Reuters.Read More →
Former US President Donald Trump tried to derail relations with China by banning stocks from Chinese companies at US stock markets. Now, under President Joe Biden, certainty for stock markets including the Chinese shares is key, says former White House advisor Harry Broadman at US News. Although there might be some other dangers.Read More →
Marketing veteran Ashley Dudarenok looks at three major changes in China after the pandemic in 2021. Speed, digitalization, and consumer behavior went through an amazing rollercoaster, she says on the vlog.Read More →