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How the 1995 employment law changed China – Mark Schaub
China veteran Mark Schaub discusses how China changed since it introduced the 1995 Employment Law and how it impacted the way foreign businesses could work. Before 1995 few people had a written labor contract, but since the introduction of the law much changed for workers and lawyers, he explains.Read More →
Fintech: a fast-moving subject – Sara Hsu
Financial analyst Sara Hsu discusses her book China’s fintech explosion, at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and how this fast-moving subject she captured in her book.Read More →
Stopping CCP members from entering the US is not a smart move – Victor Shih
In a last-ditch effort to mess up the relations between China and the US, the Trump administration issued rules to prevent members of the communist party to enter the US. Political analyst Victor Shih explains in Politico why that is not a smart move.Read More →
From teenage Chinese girls to Donald Trump: the Tiktok story -Matthew Brennan
China internet guru Matthew Brennan summarizes his bestseller Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance and explains how Tiktok developed from a successful domestic tool for millennials into a short-video platform that even caught the attention from US President Donald Trump.Read More →
Needed: a coalition of China’s trade partners – Harry Broadman
Former White House official Harry Broadman discusses the future of relations between China and its trade partners. He hopes and expects that after Joe Biden takes over from current US President Donald Trump collective action between trade partners will be higher on the agenda, he tells Bloomberg. With a strong focus on Canada.Read More →
How Douyin/Tiktok became mainstream – Matthew Brennan
Content creation has been key for short-form engagement, writes the Jing Daily. And for Bytedance’s Douyin/Tiktok it has paved the way from its original base of millennials to mainstream engagement, adds Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance.Read More →
Why can China bloggers charge brands so much money – Ashley Dudarenok
Western brands are often shocked by the fees they have to pay to retain bloggers in China. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains why bloggers in China work differently and actually do no need brands for their operation. They can create their own brands, so do not need the Western ones, unless they pay, she says.Read More →
What is the reason for Tiktok’s success? – Matthew Brennan
Bytedance’s Tiktok is a very successful global video-platform, and one of the few with a background in China. China internet watcher Matthew Brennan, author of “Attention Factory: The Story of Tiktok and China’s Bytedance, explains what makes Tiktok so successful. Getting feedback from its users is one of the key differences with other platforms, he tells in Explica.Read More →
Corona vaccine: light at the end of the tunnel
Farmaceutical firms Moderna and Pfizer have applied in December 2020 for permission from the medical authorities to distribute their corona vaccines in both Europe and the US, and the UK has already moved for first distribution in December. That is the first real good news since the world – and our industry – came to a standstill in early 2020. The pain is not yet over, but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel.Read More →
The retail ecosystem: China’s biggest change – Ashley Dudarenok
China’s biggest change over the past two years has been the development of its retail ecosystem, says marketing veteran Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog. Not only by thinking it out, but by implementing a change that has affected retail profoundly.Read More →
Why the RCEP is not the world’s largest free trade area – Harry Broadman
In a world where global trade is in crisis, the agreement on the RCEP has been greeted as the world’s largest free-trade zone. International trade negotiator Harry Broadman disagrees, he writes in Forbes. This claim is over-stretching the truth,” Broadman writes.Read More →
Biden will not reset Trump’s China policy – Arthur Kroeber
The newly elected US president Joe Biden will reset some of Trump’s policies, like on the climate, but economist Arthur Kroeber says Biden will follow his predecessor on China, he tells in Bloomberg.Read More →