Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, in an extensive interview at Forbes, says that after a very bearish 2024, China’s economy has found its way upwards because of Trump. “People rallied together and said, ‘We’ll deal with lower incomes. We’ll deal with bad sales. We want to make Trump bend’, he tells Forbes.Read More →

Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, says the US’s withdrawal from its tariff war against China is causing joy among Chinese citizens. Trump faced massive resistance from American companies, which suffered a dramatic loss, he told David Lin.Read More →

U.S. President Donald Trump claims China has been taking advantage of the US and its companies. Shanghai-based analyst Shaun Rein, author of  The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order explains why this assumption is wrong and how the US, consumers and US companies have been profiting from their cooperation and trade with China, he tells at the Thinkers’ Forum.Read More →

Traditional luxury markets have contracted, with the exception of travel, which is one of the conclusions of the 2025 Hurun Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey. “The average household consumption of China’s HNWIs was down 12% in the past year,” says Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman of Hurun, the research organization responsible for the Hurun Rich List in the Jing Daily.Read More →

China’s toy company Pop Mart has become an instant domestic and international success for a new generation of consumers. Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains in Time how Pop Mart was able to read the hearts and minds of a new brand of consumers. Pop Mart understands those consumer needs, according to Dudarenok, and the Chinese domestic market lets companies “fail fast and succeed fast” to figure out what consumers really want.Read More →