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How to work with virtual influencers in China anno 2022 – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into China’s virtual influencers in 2022 and discusses how brands can work with those successful marketing tools and avoid trouble like with the human influencers, on her vlog.Read More →
New China hands have limited opportunities – Victor Shih
Tense relations between China and the US, a pandemic, and limited access to the country are firmly limiting a new generation of China hands to explore a career in the second economy of the world, says China professor Victor Shih in the South China Morning Post. “China was [once] seen as a kind of land of opportunity for young foreigners. That is no longer the case,” said Shih, Read More →
New: the stay-at-home economy – Ashley Dudarenok
China’s consumers have developed new behavior during the lengthy quarantine, writes marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok and dives into newly emerged economies like the smart home market, and the fitness market for Dao Insights.Read More →
Delisting Chinese companies at US exchanges: is it going to fly? – Winston Ma
Financial analyst Winston Ma discusses the progress of the plan to delist Chinese companies from US stock markets on CNBC. It’s mostly China that has to comply with the US demands for transparency, he says about this work in progress.Read More →
China’s real problem: too low productivity – Arthur Kroeber
China’s real economic problem: they increase capital spending, but are not able to improve productivity that is already at a shockingly low level, says leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, at a panel at CSIS discussing with Thomas Orlik, Chief Economist for Bloomberg Economics, and author of the book, China: The Bubble That Never Pops. While an economic collapse is unlikely, a grinding halt to economic development might be its largest danger, Kroeber adds.Read More →
How to create, monetize your IP in China – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains how content producers can create and monetize their intellectual property (IP). The country is leaving behind its image of a robber of IP and has developed a booming industry of cultural products, allowing to make real money, she explains at her vlog.Read More →
China growth might not exceed 4% – Ben Cavender
Shanghai-based business analyst Ben Cavender does not expect China to resume its role as the engine of the world economy. Annual growth of its GDP might be 4% at most, and not the 7% most have expected till recently, he tells CNBCtv.Read More →
New policies and people at the upcoming 20th Party Congress – Victor Shih
Political analyst Victor Shih, author of Coalitions of the Weak, (2022), looks at the new policies and people emerging ahead of the upcoming 20th Party Congress. While party-secretary Xi Jinping will be up for a third term, Premier Li Keqiang, typically in charge of economic affairs will be replaced, he tells at the China Edge.Read More →
The end of made in China? Nah – Mark Schaub
The story that Western companies are fleeing China is as old as the presence of foreign companies in China. China lawyer Mark Schaub looks at the recent flare in Western media and explains why they are wrong, again, in his weekly China Chit-chat.Read More →
How the metaverse will change the industry – Rupert Hoogewerf
The metaverse will change the industry dramatically, says Rupert Hoogewerf, chief researcher at the Hurun Rich List. Earlier he released a China company list with the highest metaverse potential. He now zooms into the Guangzhou Metaverse Innovation Alliance, writes the China Daily.Read More →
How tough was the Shanghai quarantine? – Mark Schaub
China lawyer Mark Schaub returned to London after three months of quarantine in Shanghai, including a COVID camp. He looks back at the experience in his resumed China Chit-Chat. How bad was it really? How different is it from the US? And: are his Chinese friends leaving Shanghai?Read More →
The digital transformation of China’s rural communities – Winston Ma
Financial analyst Winston Ma looks at Tesla village Panzhiga as an example of how China’s rural areas moved upward on the road of digitalization for the World Economic Forum. Tesla’s and domestic EV cars are becoming a symbol of success in those areas.Read More →