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Is the world heading for a Cold War 2.0? – Ian Johnson
China watcher and CFR-scholar Ian Johnson opens a roundtable conference at the National University of Singapore on the question whether the world is heading for a new cold war, now the tensions between China and the USA have not diminished after the US president Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump.Read More →
China is closing more than only its borders – Victor Shih
China under President Xi Jinping is profoundly changing its attitude to the outside world, much more than a pandemic-driven closure of the borders, says political analyst Victor Shih to CNN.Read More →
China prepares to become the world’s largest economy by 2035 – Ian Johnson
China is drawing its future, including becoming the world’s largest economy by 2035. China watcher and CFR-scholar Ian Johnson looks at the CFR website at the decisions taken at the November 2021 Plenum of the Communist Party, as the country prepares for its party conference in 2022 with a new 5-year plan.Read More →
Why Pakistan matters – William Bao Bean
Leading VC William Bao Bean, general manager of SOSV, has been funding startups over the past five years from Shanghai in Pakistan and explains why Pakistan startups do matter.Read More →
How the Double 11 festival became a teenager – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok tells at the state-owned CGTN how the Double 11 festival in 2021 became a teenager and started to become the way to introduce new products to China’s consumers and turned international.Read More →
Xi-Biden virtual meeting: a step forward – Victor Shih
US president Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping plan a virtual meeting next week, after months of rising tension between both economic giants. Political analyst Victor Shih sees the meeting as a step forward, he tells CNN.Read More →
Leadership shuffle at Bytedance: a good sign – William Bao Bean
Bytedance, the mothership of both Douyin and Tiktok, has reorganized its leadership and its internal organization, including founder and CEO Zhang Yiming. A good sign at a maturing giant, says Shanghai-based VC William Bao Bean at the Asia Nikkei.Read More →
How China-US relations keep on deteriorating over the decades – Kaiser Kuo
China watcher Kaiser Kuo describes at the Varn Vlog how US-China relations went downhill since the 2008 financial crisis, and how that did not improve after President Joe Biden took over from Donald Trump. Also: how the Red Deal in China is changing domestic relations in China.Read More →
Xi Jinping lost his interest in foreign trips – Victor Shih
China’s President Xi Jinping has not traveled much over the past years, most lately he missed COP26 in Glasgow, nor has he received many foreign guests. Political analyst Victor Shih sees there is more behind Xi’s travel behavior than only an effect of the coronacrisis, he tells at Forbes.Read More →
Travel startups dealing with the COVID-19 crisis – William Bao Bean
Leading VC William Bao Bean explains how travel startups managed through the COVID-19 crisis at PhocusWire Pulse. In China, they survived by focusing on booming domestic travel, but the lack of international travel hit some severely. Some of the travel startups he guided to the market had to give up their efforts to enter the Asian market, while others adjusted to the difficult market conditions.Read More →
How China moves away from low-quality products – Arnold Ma
China initially became the factory of the world, and equivalent to low-quality products. But those days are over, says marketing expert Arnold Ma at his Myth Buster vlog. Innovation and high quality have become key in China’s production, although you can still get some cheap, low-quality stuff too, he adds.Read More →
How European brands use China’s live-streaming – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok discusses the successes and failures of European brands in the fast-moving live-streaming scene in China. Some have been pretty successful, but certainly not all, she says at the China EU.Read More →