One of the key legacies of president Xi Jinping is moving away from some of the key reforms initiated by his predecessor Deng Xiaoping, for example, where it comes to the importance of private companies for China’s economy, says leading economist Arthur Kroeber in Global Village Space.Read More →
Relations between Australia and China have never been so worse in decades, says business analyst Shaun Rein to the state-owned CGTN. Why is Australia upsetting its largest market for its exports, he wonders and dives into the controversy.Read More →
India has been one of the hotspots of investments from China, but that might end now the hostilities between both countries increase, says business analyst Shaun Rein to AP. Chinese apps have already been banned by the Indian government, and startups seem to be next. Anti-Chinese feelings among consumers might be putting Chinese investors also off.Read More →
Chaos reigns the White House as US presidential advisor Peter Navarro said the China trade deal was dead and was promptly corrected by US President Donald Trump who said the opposite. Business analyst Shaun Rein says at the BBC Trump cannot control his lieutenants, as they prefer to blame China for anything that goes wrong.Read More →
China is trying to contain a second wave of the coronavirus. Economist Arthur Kroeber looks at what the government wants to do. Unlike other countries, China tries to eradicate the number of cases to zero, whatever it might cost. Even though that is not realistic, it has huge consequences for some consumer good sectors and travel, who might not recover for the time being. An overview of the situation in June.Read More →
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are increasingly behaving like biased activists when it comes to China, says business analyst Shaun Rein at the state-owned CGTN. “I’m a big believer that they should have critics of China quoted, but then they should also have supporters of China quoted,” he argues.Read More →
Nationalistic sentiments at the recent National People’s Congress (NPC) triggered off proposals to abolish English translations on all government-related events in China. London-based author Zhang Lijia explains why that is the wrong move, and why learning English is still important, also for Chinese, at the South China Morning Post.Read More →
China veteran Kaiser Kuo discusses the future of relations between China and the US, as disaster is luring, while cooperation is needed more than ever considering the problems of the coronavirus and climate change. On racism in the US, at the Oxford Political Review.Read More →
Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein argues why the Hong Kong uprising is not the democratic movement they claim to be, in an interview with state-owned CGTN.Read More →
Former US President Clinton’s assistant trade representative Harry Broadman fears China might be killing its Hong Kong goose with the golden eggs. He also sees not providing data on the leadership views on economic growth is foolish, he tells at Bloomberg. Read More →
China was in chaos when the coronavirus emerged in public at the beginning of 2020, but instead of a drama, president Xi Jinping was able to turn the events into a global win for the country, says London-based journalist Zhang Lijia, author of Lotus, a novel on prostitution in China, to Barbara Demick of the New York Review of Books.Read More →
Renowned economist Arthur Kroeber, author of the bestseller China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, dives into the information explosion after the Covid-19 virus did hit China. Much information is available, but most is of low quality, he argues, and here he does a reality check of what we can say at this stage in April, including Europe and the US.Read More →