Image via Wikipedia Consumer confidence in China has gone up, after a small dip in April, says Shaun Rein, commenting on the rather weak figures from Yum, the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, were presented, in a comment for Reuters.The future looks bright, despite the reportedRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Google’s growth in China is not likely to be hurt by the recent porn brawl it had with China’s internet authorities, says analyst Shaun Rein in PC World. The US search engine got itself into hot water as it was accused of facilitating searches forRead More →
Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr How do I get into the picture? Every month after publishing our monthly top-10 most-sought speakers some of the few hundred who did not make it to the list wonder themselves what they can do to improve their ranking. There is only one adviceRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shanghai might be better prepared to deal with its Worldexpo2010 compared to what happened with the Beijing Olympics, although Shaun Rein at CNBC is not without worries.The city is pumping the equivalent of 45 billion US dollar into the city, but unlike Beijing, ShanghaiRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia gets many positive reviews for her book “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, but a review in the Washington Post is still a milestone. From the review: In “Socialism Is Great!” Zhang recounts her quest forRead More →
Image via Wikipedia In the latest newsletter for May 2009 of the China Speakers Bureau we make clear China will not, and does not want to.But China is offering the world unprecedented opportunities, as part of its 1.5 trillion US dollar in foreign reserves are being spent. Our speakers canRead More →
Image by jiazi via Flickr Victor Shih attended yesterday a China conference of the “Friends of Europe” in Brussels, together with Levin Zhu, the CEO of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s souverain fund. Shih addressed the danger of China banking literally on its future, by increasing its debts forRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr At the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have been doing some bean counting again and have made our monthly top-10 of most-sought speakers. (Here you can find the April 2009 one.) Some fast upwards movements in positions, although more than halfRead More →
Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Our speaker, assistant-professor Victor Shih will be debating coming Tuesday in Brussels with Levin Zhu, the CEO of the China International Capital Corporation (CIC) on the future of China. His session “Countering the global recessions. Is China an economic threat or a locomotive ofRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein of CMR in Shanghai looks ahead at the future of international car makers as the Shanghai auto show opens for business today.At CNBC he explains why the top end of the market, Mercedes and BMW is still growing by 30-50 percent, providing China’sRead More →
Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr In April we see at the China Speakers Bureau , compared to our March listing, a remarkable set of newcomers in the top-10 of most sought speakers for the month, although some have been there in previous months. Only the first four are maintaining aRead More →
Wen Jiabao via Wikipedia Comments come out in full force after prime minister Wen Jiabao addressed the National People’s Congress yesterday on China’s economy. Both leading analysts, Shaun Rein at Bloomberg and Arthur Kroeber at Investors.com remain critical but also cautious optimistic on where the economy is heading.Kroeber sees thatRead More →