William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr The China Speakers Bureau Newsletter for December 2010 is out and available here. Including cautionary tales on where China’s economy is going, and the latest news of our speakers. You can subscribe at this website for future newsletters. Because of upcoming travel inRead More →

Old Shanghai via Wikipedia Followers of Paul French’s weblog China Rhyming could have seen the preparatory work for his latest book The Old Shanghai A-Z. The book is out now, just in time for Christmas.Paul French: As to how it was put together – I broke Shanghai down into three areas –Read More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr As some of the visitors of this site have already noted, we have some serious problems is getting pictures displayed. Basis of this (and other problems you did not note) is a huge mess at the company who is hosting our databases Dabbledb. ForRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Derided as the eternal bull on China, Shaun Rein now warns US investors (and others) in Forbes against a dangerous bubble emerging from China: the IPO hype from anything coming from China, including video hosting companies Youku and Tudou. A mania about China hasRead More →

Ben Bernanke via Wikipedia Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is wrong in pumping 600 billion US dollar into his economy, writes Shaun Rein in Forbes. The dependence of the US economy on its addiction to debt in increasing its problems, not solving them. Bernanke is shifting the problemsRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein goes on air in CNBC to explain the confines of the recent food controls imposed by the Chinese authorities to control inflation. Controlling the food prices and lowering the production costs – by killing the toll fees for food trucks – areRead More →

Helen Wang via Flickr One of the more amazing shifts China has undergone in the past decades is its ability to create wealth for its citizens, and lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. The mental picture many outsiders still have of China, enforced when they see the PLA marching onRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr As at the end of 2008, 2009 the consulting industry dropped like a stone, Shaun Rein decided to hire more senior people and invest. In Forbes he recalls how he overcame some scary business decisions that now helped him to fight the crisis. IRead More →

Kaiser Kuo in 2008 via Wikipedia Huge changes in this month’s list of most-sought speakers, compared to October. Kaiser Kuo gained the top position and certainly made the biggest move this month. As he took his position as director international communication at China’s largest search engine Baidu, we feared heRead More →

The wrong helicopter via Wikipedia Taiwan’s decision to purchase 31 AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters for US$ 2.5 bn in stead of Cobras is blasted in an article in Atimes, as it does not fit any of the island’s defense strategies. Defense expert Wendell Minnick explains why the decision isRead More →

Image by Breff via Flickr Active engagement wins from economic sanctions in international politics, Shaun Rein tells the Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. In Forbes he compares China’s and the United States’ strategies for dealing with rogue regimes. As much as I respect Suu Kyi (and I respect herRead More →