Wendel Minnick by Fantake via Flickr In a move that is likely going to upset China, the US has send radar upgrades to Taiwan for its Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News. The announcement came during a two-day tri-service military exercise in southern Taiwan from Aug. 24-25. Read More →

William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr The China Speakers Bureau Newsletter for August 2010 is out and we wonder what economies are picking up and who is going for a double dip. Also news from our speakers, our top-10 of most sought speakers and of course some propaganda forRead More →

Shaun Rein   by Fantake via Flickr Chinese brands might have been competing on prices and distribution in 2005, in 2010 they are moving up in the value chain and worry Western brands, writes Shaun Rein in Forbes. Quality and image-building have entered China’s board rooms. Look at Google. Our researchRead More →

Paul French  via Flickr Some foreign companies do well in China, others fail. And some have a more rollerskating experience like Tesco, recalls retail analyst Paul French in the Telegraph. The UK retailer set off on a wrong foot with Taiwanese management, but took a good turn when Mr. Towle, aRead More →

Wendell Minnickvia Flickr China’s maritime actions are enticing Vietnam to edge closer to the US, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News.  The United States is taking advantage of Vietnamese angst over Chinese arrests of Vietnamese fishermen, threats against multinational oil companies operating in Vietnamese waters, increased naval exercises and theRead More →

Li Lili The name Li Lili might not be a household name for a Western audience, but – explains Shaun Rein in Forbes – for the Chinese she is a mixture of Julie Roberts and Angelina Jolie. Shaun Rein: “Along with Ruan Lingyu and Butterfly Wu, she ruled China’s boxRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The summer holidays and the summer heat forced many to lay low – we noticed from the traffic to our websites – with one exception: Shaun Rein. Almost no day passed without Shaun sharing his views on mainstream TV-stations or on Forbes and BusinessRead More →

Getty Images via @daylife Military tensions between China and the US are rising again as US aircraft carrier George Washington will join exercises with South-Korea in the Yellow Sea, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News. The exact date the aircraft carrier would enter the Yellow Sea was not released. The George WashingtonRead More →

Zhang Lijia in India Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia of the novel “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New Chinawill be attending the Kovalam literary festival in India in the fest week of October, local media announced here and here. Last she also visited the literary festival inRead More →

Paul French Obesity is rising in China and our speaker Paul French and co-author Matthew Crabbe wrote their new book Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation about the feature. In 1982 7 percent of the Chinese were overweight, in 2002 23 percent of urban China, 7 percentRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein uses the lessons business can learn from the mixed messages the government is sending on porn and sex. On the internet it is porn crackdown all along the line, while sex and prostitution are everywhere commercially available.The lesson is so obvious, manyRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr China should focus more on the quality of its economic growth and less on the quantity, says economic analyst Arthur Kroeber in ABS-CBN news, now China is getting its rightful place in the world’s economic pick order. The passing of the baton to China is inevitable,Read More →