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China housing market is going to be weak – Shaun Rein
Business analyst Shaun Rein experts the housing market in China is going to get weak as consumers are not buying big-ticket items for the near future, he tells CNBC.Read More →
Faith and value systems in China – Ian Johnson
China veteran Ian Johnson describes how faith and value systems in China have been developing over the past century and how the government and the communist party acted on religion at the USCCA.Read More →
How luxury has become huge in China – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains how luxury purchases became rooted in China’s complicated market and developed over the past decades. And what trends she expects for 2023. Read More →
How is China’s supply chain doing after Zero-Covid ended? – Sara Hsu
Tennessee professor Sara Hsu looks at the supply chains in China after the zero-Covid policies ended, for Drilling deep.Read More →
Health awareness profoundly influences sport branding – Ashley Dudarenok
Health awareness has a profound influence on the requirements of consumers, and brands should pay notice, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok tells the Jing Daily.“Women’s athleisure needs to be both fashionable and professional,” she says.Read More →
Chill in China’s tech sector continues even now the crackdown has ended – Shaun Rein
China’s crackdown on its tech sector in the past few years might have loosened, but the fallout is still hurting its development after the government has loosed its grip, says business analyst Shaun Rein to AP. “The crackdown was deep and cut far to the bone, probably more than the government expected it to,” said Shaun Rein,Read More →
Consumer sentiment is slowly improving – Ashley Dudarenok
Domestic tourism in China saw a jump, and consumer sentiment is improving more slowly after the zero-Covid policies ended, says consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok at CNBC. Brands are relucted in spending their marketing budgets. Dudarenok said that heading into 2023 and the Lunar New Year, some smaller brands had turned more conservative on China and cut their marketing budgets for the country in half.Read More →
Why China’s low fertility rate is a serious problem – Zhang Lijia
China saw for the first time its population drop. Journalist and author Zhang Lijia explains in the South China Morning Post why the government should take this development seriously and what actions it could take. “Leaders will have to learn to treat citizens with respect,” she adds.Read More →
China’s risk in the unlikely case of a US default – Arthur Kroeber
A default of the US is highly unlikely, even in the current chaotic political setting in the United States, says leading China economist Arthur Kroeber, but today the risks for China are much higher than during the 2008-2009 crisis. A crisis would not offer an opportunity to build an international financial system around the Renminbi, next to the US dollar, he adds in the ChinaFile.Read More →
How Ashley Dudarenok became a Hongkonger
Russian-born China digital marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok has been spending much of her recent professional life in Hong Kong. In December she swapped her Russian passport for a Hong Kong one and became a real Hongkonger. In the South China Morning Post, she explains why.Read More →
3 steps for China digital marketing in 2023 – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok looks at steps to take in 2023 for the digital marketing of your brand in China. How are we doing, what is our vision and how do we get there, these are the key questions Dudarenok dives into in her vlog.Read More →
Why China is heading for a fundamental breakdown – Harry Broadman
China is heading for a fundamental breakdown, argues Harry Broadman, Partner, and Chair, Emerging Markets Practice, Berkeley Research Group LLC, at a wide-ranging speech at the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, November 2022 (Charleston, South Carolina). It started by bailing out investors at its stock markets, which are no real markets, he says. Read More →