Reading body language during negotiations is an art and between different cultures it is even harder. Intercultural coach Gabor Holch, author of Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Executives in China, explains how to read hidden signs in negotiations with Asian counterparts on his YouTube channel.Read More →
Alvin Wang Graylin, author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, worked both in China and the US on AI. In a discussion with Nathan B. Jones, his main argument is that both countries are not in an AI race, and the largest misconception is this wrong idea an arms race is developing. Nobody has won the electricity race; the same goes for AI, he argues.Read More →
Renowned author Zhang Lijia dives into the life of China’s first feminist Qiu Jin for her upcoming book. In the China Books Review, she dives into her plans for the book and also reviews her previous successes, “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China and Lotus: A Novel.Read More →
Ahead of a possible meeting between presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, is explaining how the US is boosting China’s stature globally. The US is losing its former friends in Australia, Canada, and Europe, while domestically, inflation is killing the US economy through a trade war with China, he tells at Moats.Read More →
Governments are increasingly investing in sovereign funds to steer their investments into AI, copying China’s strategy, says Winston Ma, investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor focused on the global AI economy, in The Innovator. Winston Ma wrote ten books on the digital economy, including The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace.Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein clashes at North Meridian with former Trump ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands on what Trump is achieving on China, Trump’s trade strategy, Taiwan, Iran, and whether Washington still has the leverage over Beijing that it thinks it does. Rein is the author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order.Read More →
In China, many citizens looked with admiration at the US, but those days are certainly over, says London-based journalist Zhang Lijia, author of Lotus: A Novel, in an opinion piece at the South China Morning Post. Trump forced educated Chinese to rethink long-held assumptions about democracy, modernity, and the direction of history itself, she argues.Read More →
Some rumours suggest China will use the ongoing geopolitical tension to prepare for a takeover of Taiwan. Wrong, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, in a wide-ranging podcast with Cyrus Janssen at the Singjup0st. “Every six months,” says Rein, “somebody hires me since the late 90s, saying, This is the perfect time for Taiwan to be invaded and taken over by mainland China.’ And so every six months for the last 29 years, I’ve been giving speeches, keynotes, workshop sessions, because I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon.”Read More →
Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, dives into the upheaval in the Middle East and explains how a possible US financial crisis could make China the world’s largest economy, as he tells in a discussion with David Lin. Chinese feel Trump is the best thing that could happen to China, he adds.Read More →
AI was a keyword in China’s 15th five-year plan, running from 2026 to 2030. “These are kind of concrete examples that big tech companies are taking actions to try to engage everyday people with advanced AI,” said Winston Ma, author of “The Digital War” and adjunct professor in the global AI-digital economy at Bastille Post.Read More →
Is the 2026 year of the fire horse going to bring dramatic change, as people in China say? Journalist Zhang Lijia, author of “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, dives into the meaning of the year of the fire horse. Happening once every 60 years, the previous year of the fire horse was 1966, marking the start of the Cultural Revolution, says Zhang Lijia at the China Decode.Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, discusses a fundamental difference in the politics of China and the USA concerning the rich. China focuses on the 90% of the population who are not rich, while the US goes for the rich, he says at the Thinkers Forum.Read More →