Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Victor Shih has been counting how much local Chinese entities have been lending to outspend the economic crisis. His conservative estimation, on his website,  1.6 trillion US dollar: The data are far from perfect because borrowing by low-level government entities and lending by smallRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Just in time to convey you with the best wishes for the year of the tiger, at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have done our home work again and figured out who were the most popular speakers of this month.Read More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The story that China will collapse sells books and magazines, but according to Shaun Rein the bubble in the real estate is not going to be that trigger. In Forbes he tells why some of the doomsday sayers are wrong: Why? Because China’s undergroundRead More →

The book ‘A Changing China’, written by a selection of the speakers at the China Speakers Bureau is now available for purchase. Not yet in a bookstore nearby, but most certainly at Amazon. In the book more than a dozen China veterans tell how they have seen China change. WithRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Best-selling author Zhang Lijia of the book “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China has been touring Europe, including Italy, France and the first reports on her book tour are coming in. Here Zhang Lijia is in Milan, explaining Italian media how ChinaRead More →

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google threatened to leave China, Goldman Sachs is having its own affair with a state-owned company and the European Chamber of Commerce in China challenged in September the country’s trade barriers. Is protectionism rising in China, wonders Shaun Rein in his latest column inRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Famous Chinese brands have not yet reached many European or American stores, but that is going to change, writes Shaun Rein in BusinessWeek, although not overnight. He disagrees with the US journalist James Fallows who says that unlike US companies, Chinese firms have beenRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr Real estate are the main source for local governments to get money, and the lingering crisis because of excessive spending might be hard to solve, says Victor Shih in NPR. China is having a property crisis of its own, much different from that in theRead More →

Image via Wikipedia The failure of Barbie in Shanghai, costing toy producer Mattel, has been told very often. Shaun Rein explains in Forbes why the strategy was good, but failed in the execution,. With its retail sales growing by 15% in China in 2009 Mattel was right to look thereRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Despite a larger number of setbacks, China will continue its expansion abroad, tells Shaun Rein the Reuters Insider.China still has an enormous ability to expand, says Rein: “They are cash rich and very agressive.” He expects China could do very well in the high-endRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Most countries might be happy these days with double-digit growth of its GDP, in Beijing alarm bells when off when the government figures indicated a growth of 10.7 percent over the fourth quarter of 2009 while inflation is picking up. “There is too much moneyRead More →