Image via Wikipedia What foreign companies, trying to tap into the China market, regularly forget is that there is no need for their services, tells retail analyst Paul French at Marketplace Public Radio. Home Depot is an example. Paul French responds to Raymond Chou, president of Home Depot China: CHOU: The HomeRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Foreign firms in China currently make fat margins, showing the strenght of the economy, Shaun Rein tells Bloomberg, despite high profile failures like Barbie, Home Depot and BestBuy. Inflation might still be a huge problem, but there is no bubble in the making, he argues.Read More →
State-driven by Getty Images via @daylife Leading political economist Victor Shih reviews five books he recommends on China’s economy for The Browser. Number one is Huang Yasheng‘s Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State. Victor Shih: The biggest misperception about China is that it’s a dynamic market economy –Read More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr While China’s rank as the second economy in the world means little in material terms, it has an important psychological effect on its international affairs, tells Arthur Kroeber in the Wall Street Journal: But Arthur Kroeber, managing director of GaveKal Dragonomics Research in Beijing,Read More →
Howard French by Fantake via Flickr When Howard French arrived in the 1980s arrived as a foreign correspondent in Ivory Coast it was doing much better than China, he reports in The Atlantic. Now the former Shanghai-correspondent goes back to a depressing country. My frustrations, though, went back even further.Read More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Import into China is growing, the Renminbi might slight appreciate after the Christmas shopping is done and the government is addressing overheating in real estate, tells Shaun Rein Bloomberg. But the real problem is the China IPO bubble developing in the US. (Clip atRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Is there a danger of a trade backlash from the US and Europe against China’s as both Western economy continue to lose momentum. That risk is very low, says Shaun Rein in a comment on CNBC. On top of that, China has already started toRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein goes on air in CNBC to explain the confines of the recent food controls imposed by the Chinese authorities to control inflation. Controlling the food prices and lowering the production costs – by killing the toll fees for food trucks – areRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr China’s economy is going to be much leaner and greener, says Shaun Rein in CNBC, as the plans for the 12th five-year plan have been made in Beijing over the weekend. Green technology is already getting much financial support. Economic growth might be moreRead More →
Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr As China’s leadership gathers in Beijing to set its economic course for the coming five years, including its economic imbalance, Arthur Kroeber has a critical look at the country’s achievements in the BBC. “I think the leadership may be looking at the recent performanceRead More →
Arthur Kroeber Fantake via Flickr Negative sentiments are out on China in the West again, but economic analyst Arthur Kroeber explains in the Sinica Podcast, lead by Kaiser Kuo, why those bears are wrong. “China is still different.” Most of th€e bears are Western critics, who have no clue about China, Kroeber argues.Read More →
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Is there a bubble in China waiting to burst, for example in real estate? No, says Shaun Rein to Andy Xie in a debate at CNBC. Xie argued that real estate prices in China were overvalued 100 percent. Wrong says Rein. “Our research showRead More →