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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 →
How to manage your China operation – Mark Schaub
Foreign firms have been isolated more than ever from their China operations because of COVID-19 and the ongoing lockdowns. China lawyer Mark Schaub looks at the situation in 2022: “If you intend to continue with your subsidiaries in China then greater local decision-making power seems to be a likely pre-requisite to success,” he argues in his weekly newsletter. He looks at the good, the bad, and the ugly general managers.Read More →
Why China’s e-commerce needs the 618 festival – Ashley Dudarenok
Both consumers and e-commerce firms in China are preparing for the famous 618 shopping festival. Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains in her vlog why consumers love the largest of many online shopping festivals and why e-commerce firms need a boost in a market that is not growing as fast as in the past.Read More →
China: from a niche market to a major competitor – Mark Schaub
Foreign companies have been struggling how to manage their China investments for decades. Veteran China lawyer Mark Schaub, partner at KWM, looks at how the questions have remained, but the answers changed as China developed from a lucrative niche market into a major competitor for most industries, in his weekly Chit-Chat China.Read More →
Expect real opening of Shanghai by the end of June – Ben Cavender
The number of Covid cases in Shanghai keeps on dropping and residents do get small bits of freedom back from the stringent lockdown. But Shanghai-based consultant Ben Cavender expects only business activities to resume by the end of June, he tells in RTHK.Read More →
Innovations in China’s post-corona tourism – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok discusses how innovation changes the post-corona travel plans of China’s consumers. Tourism should be preparing for some changes, she argues. And when will the Chinese be ready to travel?Read More →
Blinken on China strategy: eloquent but no new policies – Ian Johnson
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave last week his grand speech on the US-China strategy. It was not only one year delayed, but also offered no new policies, says CFR scholar Ian Johnson in a first analysis at the website of the Council on Foreign Relations.Read More →
How to deal with IP infringements in China – Mark Schaub
China lawyer Mark Schaub, a senior partner at KWM, has dealt with many cases for foreign firms, accusing Chinese companies of infringements of their intellectual property (IP). In an interview with Gao Feng Advisory’s CEO Dr. Edward Tse, Mark Schaub shares some of his legal experiences in China at Wei Xin.Read More →
The Great Shanghai Expat Exodus – Mark Schaub
China veteran and lawyer Mark Schaub dives into the issue of the upcoming exodus of ex-pats from Shanghai, triggered off by the stringent COVID-19 lockdowns. More foreigners than ever will be leaving, while fewer are coming to replace them unless their companies reinvent themselves. But to a large degree, this is a long overdue cleanup in a dynamically changing climate, he argues in his second weekly column China chit-chat.Read More →