Decision-makers in China’s consumption are increasingly singles, with women becoming another major force to take into account, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok at the state-owned broadcaster CGTN. Mostly women decide on the purchase of a house, at the end of 2021 likely to be 82% of the deciding purchasers.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 →
Typically, China’s economy comes to a standstill during the annual Chinese New Year, but not in 2021, explains business analyst Shaun Rein to CNBCTV. GovermentalCovid-19 restrictions make it tough for migrant workers to return home, and double salaries at the factories might encourage them to continue working during the festival. Other industries like travel and leisure might suffer, though.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 →
Spring festival is the time when China’s consumers spend more than any other period during the year. How will their spending behavior in 2021 look like, after the Covid-19 disruptions of 2020. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks ahead for Technode.Read More →
China’s authorities are trying to avoid 300 million migrant workers to go home for Chinese New Year, in an effort to avoid another embarrassing corona lockdown like in 2020, says leading economist Arthur Kroeber in the New York Times.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 →
China has dealt with the corona storm in 2020 better than other major economies and will outperform most economies in 2021, says super investor Jim Rogers to state broadcaster CGTN.Read More →
China watcher Shaun Rein sends his seasonal greetings from the Zhejiang Province tea fields and discusses how the world looks at China as the second-largest economy.Read More →
Singapore-based super-investor Jim Rogers explains at the Sixth Tone why he bets on Chinese shares to improve his fortunes.Read More →
In a world where global trade is in crisis, the agreement on the RCEP has been greeted as the world’s largest free-trade zone. International trade negotiator Harry Broadman disagrees, he writes in Forbes. This claim is over-stretching the truth,” Broadman writes.Read More →