Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr (Now updated with the original speech at YouTube)In his speech at the famous Austin SXSW China’s prominent internet watcher Kaiser Kuo closed his keynote with a few scenario’s Google has in China. Google threatened to leave China in January after hacker attacks in December, said it wouldRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr A massive bailout of China’s major banks might be one of the options to let them recoup much of the 2.4 trillion Renminbi (255 billion euro) spend during the recent financial rescue operation, says professor Victor Shih to BusinessWeek today. “The most likely case isRead More →

by Fantake via Flickr China’s billionaires keep on collecting more wealth and the Hurun founder, Rupert Hoogewerf, the China rich list, expects them to reach the global top in 15 years, when the economy keeps on growing, he tells the People’s Daily. The newspaper focuses on Zong Qinghou, the ownerRead More →

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Author Zhang Lijia of the bestseller “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China might be building fame fast outside China, but her interview with the Global Times is a breakthrough. While no political activist, she is also not always toeing the officialRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Wishful thinking has led many analysts to call for an appreciation of China’s currency, the Renminbi or Yuan. Shaun Rein goes against that trend and says that an appreciation soon would hurt the recovering export industry too much and might cost up to 5Read More →

Kaiser Kuo China’s authorities have gone far in an effort to curtain pornography, even by disallowing individuals to register domain names on the internet. It is not a very efficient strategy, says Beijing-based Internet-watcher Kaiser Kuo to China International Business.  According to Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based digital media consultant who worksRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr China faces this year unprecedented challenges, tells Arthur Kroeber the Wall Street Journal on the day the annual National People Congress (NPC) starts its meeting. “Last year, Beijing had a simple strategy and a simple message: lend as much money as necessary to keepRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr China’s debts, caused by its massive rescue plan of the past few years, might trigger off a crisis as debts rise to almost 100 percent of its GDP in a worst case scenario, says professor Victor Shih in Business Week. “The worst case isRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Rupert Hoogewerf, compiler of the Hurun Rich List, describes China’s growing number of billionaires as its “new  nobility, in the Global Times. The Global Times: In his eyes, a billionaire in Beijing should usually own three houses, a villa in suburb, a condominium in theRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr China should resist calls from the US to strengthen its current, since that would have a negative effect on the job market, even though many American says China is not playing the game fair, argues Shaun Rein in BusinessWeek.  Those voices include the famous NewRead More →

Janet Carmosky, one of our authors by Fantake via Flickr The monthly newsletter of the China Speakers Bureau is due tomorrow. We have a report on how our speakers try to explain the unexplainable: Google and China. The first of a new sequel of CBS trends, now on the issueRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Internet watcher Kaiser Kuo is very enthusiastic about an emerging feature on the Chinese internet, Chinese bloggers who translate what is happening at the Chinese internet into English. From AFP: “Bridge blogs have become an incredibly precious resource,” said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based InternetRead More →