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The End of Cheap China is near – Shaun Rein
The upcoming presidential elections in the US, cause a rise in tension with China, business analyst Shaun Rein observes in Forbes. An advanced warning from his upcoming book The End of Cheap China. Read More →
A bumpy road ahead for real estate – Shaun Rein
Two years ago business analyst Shaun Rein set famous short seller Jim Chanos straight when he said China’s real estate was worse than a thousand times worse than Dubai. Now Chanos has scaled down his prediction to ‘a bumpy road’, and this time Shaun Rein agrees, he writes in CNBC.Read More →
Bullish on consumer demand, retail – Shaun Rein
China’s economy might be facing some short term trouble, but business analyst Shaun Rein remains optimistic about consumer demand and retail for the longer term. Only Chinese equity should be avoided, he tells on CNBC.Read More →
Luxury spending moves to smaller cities – Shaun Rein
Spending on luxury products moves in China to the third-tier cities, notes business analyst Shaun Rein in an interview with AFP. Unlike the rich from Shanghai and Beijing, inhabitants of third-tier cities can travel less internationally.Read More →
How to become successful in executive education – Bill Fischer
IMD-professor (and formet CEIBS dean) Bill Fischer wrote up on his weblogwhat makes him successful in executive education, answers on questions from CEIBS professor Ellie Weldon. “One of the few advantages that I have found to be associated with aging, however, is that sometimes people ask for your opinions, and then actually listen.”Read More →
The mismatch between mobile platforms and ad agencies – William Bao Bean
Mobile might be the next big thing in China, both mobile platforms and ad agencies have still a hard time to find each other, tells William Bao Bean, Managing Director Singtel Innov8, in AdAge. Read More →
How Panda diplomacy changed into Panda commerce – Zhang Lijia
What’s the point of breeding panda’s, author Zhang Lijia wonders on her weblog after a couple arrived in a highly-publicized visit in Edinburgh. Panda’s as political tools have been replaced by a commercial, and useless, breeding program.Read More →
Relaxing money lending is the wrong policy – Shaun Rein
In a surprise move China’s financial authorities decided last week to abandon their tight money lending policy and losend the reigns for its banks again. Wrong policy, says business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC, who has been praising the government handling of inflation and overspending in the past.Read More →
Top-10 visitors by country
Google Analytics offers a wealth of data, and now and then we want to share them with you. Today, the top-10 visitors for November 2011 by country. From our observations, those data are not always flawless, but since they are the only we have, we will stick to them for the time being. Read More →
Trends Western firms miss in China – Shaun Rein
Business analyst Shaun Rein is interview on his upcoming book The End of Cheap China by David Jackson Seeking Alpha. The kick-off: what trends are Western firms missing in China (and much more)?Read More →
New banking policy no reason to worry – Arthur Kroeber
The sudden loosing of the tight banking rules for lending came as a surprise, but economic analyst Arthur Kroeber sees no reason for panic about China’s economy. In the Guardian he gives a historical perspective.Read More →
British media do not treat China fairly – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia participated in a debate by the British Chamber of Commerce in Beijing on how British media portrait China and argued that they do not paint a fair picture but look of a negative angle or the quirky approach, not in giving a fair picture.Read More →