Innovation and synergies in US-China relations – Winston Ma
2023-03-06
Investor, attorney, and author Winston Ma dives into the innovations in China and the synergies in US-China relations for the CFA Society in New York.Read More →
How in China the Internet of Things gets connected – Winston Ma
2023-02-28
In China, things are even more connected than people, writes Winston Ma, Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law, in Europeansting.com, in a thorough overview of the possibilities and challenges of the Internet of Things. Are we ready for the future?Read More →
How Shanghai worked as a stepping stone for Pakistani startups – William Bao Bean
2022-09-05
Leading VC William Bao Bean, partner at SOSV and managing director of Orbit Startups explains how he started to develop startups in Pakistan, using his Shanghai experience as a stepping stone.Read More →
How to create, monetize your IP in China – Ashley Dudarenok
2022-07-22
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains how content producers can create and monetize their intellectual property (IP). The country is leaving behind its image of a robber of IP and has developed a booming industry of cultural products, allowing to make real money, she explains at her vlog.Read More →
Taking down a tofu cake – Shaun Rein
2022-06-09
China’s internet censors took down a popular influencer showing a tofu tank, which suddenly made this year internet users aware of an issue that was mostly ignored: Beijing’s tank man on June 4, 1989. Political expert Shaun Rein explains how the censor shot into his own food at ABC News.Read More →
How TikTok excels in hooking its users with AI – Matthew Brennan
2022-04-11
Bytedance, the mother company of Douyin and TikTok, became the first to use artificial intelligence to hook their users in an unprecedented way, says China internet expert Matthew Brennan to Play Crazy Game. The TikTok algorithms turns its users into addicts, in the same way drugs do, says Brennan.Read More →
How to use China’s startup experience in Africa – William Bao Bean
2022-01-06
Serial investor William Bao Bean, general partner of SOSV in Shanghai, started in 2021 to invest in his first startup ventures in Africa. In Disrupt-Africa he explains how his experience in China helps him to make his first investments in Africa.Read More →
How China’s Tiktok became a global gamechanger – Matthew Brennan
2021-12-15
Bytedance’s Tiktok has become a global gamechanger, and extraordinary achievements from a China-based company, says innovation analyst Matthew Brennan, author of Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance at Spectra 2021.Read More →
How long working hours changed consumer habits – Ashley Dudarenok
2021-10-27
Long working hours have changed many consumption habits for young workers in tech companies, explains consumption expert Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog. But now the 996 working culture has been banned by the government, will the world for those young tech workers become more healthy? Read More →
How oral history is changing China’s view on recent history – Ian Johnson
2021-10-20
CFR-scholar Ian Johnson describes how oral history changes the perception people have about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, now documents and interviews emerge on the internet, he tells at the Manchester China Institute.Read More →
Why China banned cryptocurrencies on a national level – Winston Wenyan Ma
2021-09-28
After provincial authorities started to limit operations of cryptocurrencies earlier this year, last week a full ban was issued by 10 ministries. Financial analyst Winston Wenyan Ma explains Bloomberg what the central government is doing to cryptocurrencies, the relation with the upcoming digital currency and its possible fallout on a global level.Read More →
India is still tougher to invest in compared to China – William Bao Bean
2021-09-27
Some investors have been suggesting that the latest political changes in China have made India an easier place to invest. VC veteran William Bao Bean, with major experience in both countries, disagrees, he tells in the South China Morning Post. He believes the government’s efforts to break the duopoly of Tencent and Alibaba makes China for him even more attractive.Read More →