Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Leading economic analyst Arthur Kroeber tackles in the Washington Post five myths many people have about China’s economy. Some of the misunderstandings: China will overtake the US economy very soon. China is holding the US hostage through its huge amount of treasure bonds.And theRead More →

Hurun by Fantake via Flickr Rupert Hoogewerf or Hurun – founder of the China Rich List – participated in the China (Shanghai)Boat Show 2010 to announce the 2010 Asian Marine and Boating Awards.In Sail-World he explained his optimism about the yachting industry in China: ‘There is huge potential for theRead More →

Queen Mary’s by suburbanslice via Flickr In the past few days, the China Speakers Bureau discovered that criminals were approaching some of our speakers for what proved to be a scam, involving names of faculty at Queen Mary, University of London. In an email message to those individual speakers –Read More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr When the central government fails to rein massive spending at a local level, China might face an inflation of up to 15 percent by 2012, tells professor Victor Shih to BusinessWeek. The article focuses on Chongqing, the largest city in China in terms ofRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr According to any standard China’s property market is acting crazy, but – tells Arthur Kroeber the Business Spectator – it might be “sustainable madness”.Kroeber: “There is no question that much of it is irrational, but we tend to think the irrationality can last aRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The US has delayed a critical report on the needed appreciation of China’s Renminbi with three months, giving the Chinese government the possibility to test and possibly change in currency policy, says Shaun Rein to CNBC. Rein expects 1 or 2 percent appreciation ofRead More →

Hurun by Fantake via Flickr Most rich Chinese are living in Beijing, Rupert Hoogewerf – better known as Hurun – tells the Global Times, based on his latest report on the countries millionaires. Number is China’s other hot spots, like Shanghai and Guangdong are growing, but lagging compared to Beijing.Read More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr When professor Victor Shih published earlier this year his assessment on the amount of debt China’s local governments had built up while trying to outspend the economic crisis (1.6 trillion US dollar), and predicted a possible crisis in 2012,  it was quiet for aRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Contrary to its intentions, Google has been rather damaging than helping China’s internet reform and opening up, writes Shaun Rein in an editorial in USA Today. Reform-minded officials have been trying to give Google access to the Chinese market, and Google decided to turnRead More →

Paul French by Fantake via Flickr The Worldexpo 2010 in Shanghai is mean to make the Beijing Olympics look small: bigger, more expensive and meant to attract many more visitors. Apart from the US pavilion, the other 190 national pavilions are government-funded, even in these financially disturbed times, as it isRead More →

Janet Carmosky by Fantake via Flickr Our March 2010 newsletter of the China Speakers Bureau is out. For those who missed it (you can subscribe in the top-right corner), you can read it here too.This month ambassador Sergio Marchi debates the WTO, we publish our top-10 speakers list for MarchRead More →

Zhang Lijia, with hooker in Shenzhen by Fantake via Flickr A candid report from the International Literature festival 2010 at the Bookworm in Beijing brings up a range on controversies between different Asian writers in the China Daily: Does putting a qipao-clad woman on the cover create instant brand recognitionRead More →