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China is looking for a different kind of investor – Shaun Rein
Services are replacing manufacturers as preferred investors in China, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in VOA as Shanghai is opening its free trade zone. That could be a trial balloon for the next five to ten years, before moving on, he expects.Read More →
1949 revolution meant progress for most Chinese – Zhang Lijia
China’s recent history had a fair share of man-made disasters, including the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. The few years after the 1949 revolution have always been considered to be a golden period. Wrong, says Frank Dikotter in a recent book, The Tragedy of Liberation. Author Zhang Lijia disagrees with him at the BBC.Read More →
A small dent in China’s internet firewall – Shaun Rein
The story Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone will offer investors uncensored internet, is a very small, but highly symbolic move by China’s government, explains business analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. Some sections of the government are listening to complaints by foreign and Chinese business leaders, but do not expect major changes fast.Read More →
Haier: organizing entrepreneurs, not workers – Bill Fischer
China’s electronics manufacturer Haier has become one of the world’s leading firm in renewing its way to organize production. IMD-professor Bill Fischer explains in Entrepreneur.com how workers are organized like entrepreneurs, working on their own fate.
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Internet ban hurts Chinese companies – Shaun Rein
Story of the day is the Shanghai’s new Free Trade Zone might allow Twitter, Facebook and other western social media on the internet. About time, says business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC as the current limitations hurt the competitiveness of Chinese companies.Read More →
Tough decisions for China’s leadership ahead – Sara Hsu
In October China’s leadership has to decide about some tough economic dilemma’s. Financial expert Sara Hsu paints at Triple-Crisis some of the options to avoid a failure of the efforts to shift from an investment-driven to a consumption-driven economy.Read More →
Apple: no longer cool in China – Shaun Rein
Apple’s new iPhones are not getting the buzz the Apple products used to get in the past, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in Bloomberg. It might a against the bible of Steve Jobs, but it would help if they would listen to their users. And the fingerprint technology is not helping either.Read More →
Most female billionaires come from China – Rupert Hoogewerf
More than half of the world’s richest female entrepreneurs come from China, says the latest annual Hurun Rich List, according to the China Daily. A proof for China’s good business climate, says Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf.Read More →
The party is over for Chinese banks – Sara Hsu
The party is over for Chinese banks, shadow banking expert +Sara Hsu concluded (together with co-author Andrew Collier) at the EastAsiaForum.com. Regulator can no longer turn a blind eye, as loans put local governments and private lenders into trouble.Read More →
China’s rich are better off – Rupert Hoogewerf
China’s rich are becoming richer, reported the annual Hurun Rich list this week. The number of dollar billionaires went up with 27 percent, but – admits Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in The Indepent, Although: “Valuing the wealth of China’s richest is as much an art as it is a science”.Read More →
New iPhone ‘no game changer’ – Shaun Rein
The new iPhone will be available in China in the coming days, but it is no game-changer, warns business analyst Shaun Rein at Bloomberg. “They have to make better phones than Samsung, otherwise they might just follow Nokia.” At the bottom-end Lenovo and Xiaomi keep the market occupied.Read More →
Real estate back as wealth driver – Rupert Hoogewerf
The central government has been trying to cool down real estate, but when we look at the annual Hurun rich list, real estate is back at the top position as wealth creator, says Hurun chairman Rupert Hoogewerf at 4-Traders. And IT is following.Read More →