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Fast fashion is changing an industry – Matthew Brennan
Fashion firm Shein has been attracting quite some attention. But behind them, a new industry trend is emerging: fast fashion. E-commerce expert Matthew Brennan explains at Marketplace how the fashion industry is changing fast.Read More →
With more children allowed, how do motherhood and feminism go along? – Zhang Lijia
China’s authorities first raised the number of allowed children from two to three per family, and might now even cancel all restrictions. Journalist Zhang Lijia, author of Lotus: A Novel(January 2017) on prostitution in China, looks at the troubled relationship between feminism and motherhood in her mother country, in an interview with the Italian publication Il Manifesto.Read More →
On-shore listing: a challenge for going public – William Bao Bean
Until a few weeks ago, listing at US stock markets was a favorite way to raise capital for fast-growing Chinese companies. That venue is closed now, and VC veteran William Bao Bean sees still bears on the road for on-shore listing’s at China’s stock markets, he tells the South China Morning Post.Read More →
Data is the new oil in China, and the rest of the world – Ashley Dudarenok
Data is the new oil, and China is already in a leading position to show how data changes the way business is being done, says marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog.Read More →
Change and experiments: part of the China Communist Party genes – Ian Johnson
China’s communist party celebrated earlier this month its 100th anniversary. China watcher Ian Johnson explains how change and experimenting became part of the principles of the country’s leading political force. “They were always experimenting, and in the economic reforms of the ’70s they showed an ability to improvise,” he tells in Hamodia.Read More →
Myth-buster: why outsiders do not see the differences inside China – Arnold Ma
Outsiders often see China as a coherent country, with a similar culture, while they do not see the huge differences between different parts of the country, argues China expert Arnold Ma in his vlog. When you believe Western movies, you think China is only about fighting and kungfu, and fighting and kungfu, he says in a clip fighting myths about the country.Read More →
How Shein keeps an edge on its competitors – Matthew Brennan
Fashion firm Shein belongs to a new breed of ultra-fast fashion brands that keeps an edge on its more traditional competitors, says innovation expert Matthew Brennan at the Vox. Why is Shein going to crunch fashion companies like Zara?Read More →
Buying cheaper China shares now might be risky – Arthur Kroeber
The recent China regulatory crackdown on tech firms US IPO’s caused a dip in the value of shares, but financial analyst Arthur Kroeber warns that jumping on the bandwagon now also carries huge risks, according to Investing.com.Read More →
How China tightens its security regulations – Winston Ma/Victor Shih
China and US regulators have been tightening rules for Chinese companies to list at US stock markets, sending shockwaves through the financial and tech industry. Financial experts Winston Ma and Victor Shih look at the Wall Street Journal at what has happened over the financial cleaning operation in the past few weeks.Read More →
How to understand China? – Kaiser Kuo
Rocker and political analyst Kaiser Kuo looks at how China – often wrongly – is perceived in the West in an interview with Australian broadcaster ABC. While the country has gone in less than a generation through a massive upgrade of its hardware, the software is often lagging behind, he says.Read More →
Can the G7 deal with China’s Belt&Road Initiative? – Howard French
The G7 is trying to offer an alternative to China’s global expansion by the Belt&Road Initiative (BRI) but has a hard time finding the right approach. Former China and Africa correspondent Howard French discusses the dilemma’s at a podcast by the Brooking Institute.Read More →
Influencers do not come cheap for brands entering the China market – Ashley Dudarenok
China’s economy is booming and foreign brands see engaging influencers as the ideal way to enter the market. But those influencers do no come cheap, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok at Marketing-interactive. “You can’t enter China with $10,000 US and expect to succeed,” she says. Read More →