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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 →
Slowing COVID-19 vaccination rate hurts China consumer confidence – IMF
At the current pace, China’s COVID-19 vaccination program would need up to three years to protect its population, hurting its consumer confidence and economy, says Helge Berger, head of the IMF’s China mission, in an interview with Bloomberg.Read More →
Forever 21 might not conquer China’s fast fashion market – Ben Cavender
US fast fashion brand Forever 21 tries for the third time to get access to the China market. But Shanghai-based market analyst Ben Cavender wonders if the US brand and its Western competitors in fast fashion might succeed this time, he tells Reuters. “It will be difficult to claw away market share as most Chinese consumers either haven’t heard of the brand or don’t really know what it stands for,” he says.Read More →
China company list with highest metaverse potential – Rupert Hoogewerf
The Hurun research institute released on Tuesday the top-200 list of companies with the highest meta verse potential, says its chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf in the Panda Daily. ” This world is a digital living space with a new social system,” Hoogewerf says.Read More →
Premier Li Keqiang’s new leadership style – Victor Shih
Leading political analyst Victor Shih joins a panel at the Atlantic Council to discuss China’s top leadership, including the different style premier Li Keqiang tries to display in a situation where little deviation from the top leadership is possible. Including the leadership perspective on the Shanghai lockdown.Read More →
Taking down a tofu cake – Shaun Rein
China’s internet censors took down a popular influencer showing a tofu tank, which suddenly made this year internet users aware of an issue that was mostly ignored: Beijing’s tank man on June 4, 1989. Political expert Shaun Rein explains how the censor shot into his own food at ABC News.Read More →
China’s regulatory storms made investors uncertain – Victor Shih
Even now the regulatory storm in the tech sector seems to be calm for the moment, but political analyst Victor Shih still expects that investors will be unsure about their future in China, as the next storm never seems far away, he tells at Bloomberg.Read More →