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Capitalism is not dead, but moved to Asia – Shaun Rein
Image via Wikipedia One year after the collapse of the US bank Lehman Brothers, capitalism has not died, but the ball game has moved to Asia, with India and especially China as the new players, argues Shaun Rein in a new commentary in Forbes. One year later, the power brokersRead More →
No tit-for-tat trade war expected – Arthur Kroeber
by Fantake via Flickr After the US announced a levy on Chinese tires, many observers feared a possible trade war between two of the world’s largest economies. According to Dragonomics director Arthur Kroeber from Beijing in Finfacts, a repeat of the 1930s trade wars is highly unlikely.Finfacts: Beijing has builtRead More →
Real estate tycoon top philantropist – Rupert Hoogewerf
Image by Fantake via Flickr Huang Rulun, one of the wealthiest business men in China and a real estate tycoon, tops also the list of top-philantropists, report several state media. According to a report by the Hurun rich list Huang Rulun has spent 580 million Renminbi (58 million euro) in lessRead More →
The made-in-China label – Shaun Rein
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr A flood of food scandals has put foreign brands in a better position to gain market share in China, says Shaun Rein in an interview with newswire Bloomberg on the Swiss company Nestle.Bloomberg: “The made-in-China label is really damaging and a lot of ChineseRead More →
Room for optimism on China’s environment – Shaun Rein
Image via Wikipedia China’s emissions might be high on the global environmental agenda, but Shaun Rein from Shanghai remembers the polluted days ahead of the country’s economic boom and seem room for optimismm although the level of pollution is ten times as high as in New York, he writes inRead More →
Tang’s famously cosmopolitan outlook – Kaiser Kuo
Poet Du Fu via Wikipedia Rock star Kaiser Kuo explains in the China Daily why his band called itself “Tang Dynasty”. Main reason was because of that dynasty’s famously cosmopolitan outlook”.From the China Daily: Kuo and his fellows tried to conjure up the feel of a time when China grew steadilyRead More →
Not that many tycoons end up in jail – Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife For a while ending up at Rupert Hoogewerf’s Hurun rich list seemed a receipt for trouble. Tycoon after tycoon got into trouble with China’s authorities and some ended up in jail. In a new report, here quoted in the China Daily, “The Hurun Report:Read More →
Tips on how to pick a great speaker (Part Nine): a speaker from abroad
Image by Getty Images via Daylife (this is a follow up of a set of stories from our monthly newsletter) Up to not so long ago the speakers business was a pretty localized business. When you would run an Australian speakers agency, your clients and speakers would mostly be Australians.Read More →
China’s rich were too busy to spend – Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife The new class of Chinese rich has been so busy in making money over the past five to ten years, they had no time to develop a lifestyle, like the wealthy in Europe and the US could do, says Hurun CEO Rupert HoogewerfRead More →
Snow beer has uphill struggle in China
Image via Wikipedia Compared to Tsingtao beer, the largest beer producer in China, is having a tough time in getting hold of China’s massive beer market, says Shaun Rein in an interview with Bloomberg. Although market leader, the larger beer brewers only hold 40 percent of the market, while theRead More →
Beijing has most rich Chinese – Rupert Hoogewerf
Most of China’s wealthy prefer to live in Beijing, says the latest Hurun report on the country’s rich, composed by Rupert Hoogewerf. in a report by the China Daily. The capital city has 143,000 multimillionaires and 8,800 billionaires, compared to 116,000 multimillionaires and 7,000 billionaires in Shanghai.From the China Daily: They ownRead More →
Health-care reform boon for medical device makers
Success in China via Wikipedia Foreign medical device makers have huge opportunities in China as the country embarks next year in a gigantic reform of its health-care systems, says Shaun Rein in Business Week, based on research of his China Market Research Group (CMR). One fifth of China’s ambitious stimulusRead More →