Just imagine China would send 60 planes close to Florida, says Shanghai-based political analyst Shaun Rein about the recent rise in tensions between the US and China. The situation is escalating in a dangerous way, he says.Read More →
China veteran Kaiser Kuo discusses the relations between the US and China, and here focuses on the splintering of the internet, at a wide-ranging interview at the Wire China. “I also think we need to recognize that our worries are more about us than they are about China. We have in this country a real problem with surveillance capitalism, as it’s been called,” says Kaiser Kuo.Read More →
China has a lot of historical luggage it has trouble coming to terms with, says author and journalist Zhang Lijia. The Korean was, claimed by China as a victory, is one of major historical issues the country has to come to terms with, she writes in a comment at the South China Morning Post.Read More →
London-based branding expert Arnold Ma discusses what the Tiktok deal with Oracle and Walmart might mean for its users outside China, at the state broadcaster CGTN. Who is hosting the user data is the key question to ask, he says.Read More →
Harry Broadman might have earned his stripes in working in the US administration, the handling of the Tiktok deal filled him with “utter amazement”, he tells at Marketwatch. “Why issue the executive order if you are going to negotiate that way?” Broadman asks.Read More →
Did get Oracle the Tiktok deal because it cozied up to the US president more than any of the other US companies, wonders international trade expert Harry Broadman at CNBC. Many questions remain after Microsoft was replaced by Oracle.Read More →
China and the US might have their first evaluation of their 6-month old trade agreement soon, but the cross-currents between both countries are here to stay, says Berkeley Research Group managing director Harry Broadman to Bloomberg Markets. China kept largely its promises, while the US cannot afford to take on China in a more aggressive way, he says.Read More →
The tug of war between China and the US on how the possible US ban of Tiktok makes China’s entrepreneurs – especially those in tech – to rethink its involvement in the American market, says business analyst Ben Cavender to Jing Travel.Read More →
Oracle has taken over Microsoft as the preferred buyer of Bytedance’s Tiktok in the US after the Chinese company got into problems with US President Donald Trump. Innovation expert Matthew Brennan says Oracle might be the better match as a buyer of Tiktok, he tells in Coinspeaker.Read More →
Donald Trump’s plan to ban Tiktok from the US is straight-up Sinophobia, says former Baidu communications director Kaiser Kuo to Slate. Most successful apps in China will not make a decent following among consumers in the rest of the world, he argues, just because they are too much adjusted to China’s internet rules and customs, he adds.Read More →
A range of incidents between China and the US is making headlines, as US President Donald Trump is trying to win the next presidential elections in the US. But Trump is strengthening China’s President Xi Jinping’s hand, warns political analyst Harry Broadman in a debate on Bloomberg.Read More →
Already before COVID-19, American and Chinese internet giants fought for dominance in the booming market for food and grocery delivery, and the coronavirus crisis had cause another boom in the market, says William Bao Bean, managing director of global venture capital firm SOSV in Shanghai in Marketplace. Having dominance in their home market helps the Chinese players.Read More →