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What does the Tiktok deal mean for its users? – Arnold Ma
London-based branding expert Arnold Ma discusses what the Tiktok deal with Oracle and Walmart might mean for its users outside China, at the state broadcaster CGTN. Who is hosting the user data is the key question to ask, he says.Read More →
Meet China’s newest richest person, Zhong Shanshan – Rupert Hoogewerf
Zhong Shanshan, founder of the bottled water company Nongfu Spring, pushed Alibaba’s Jack Ma from his position as the richest in China. Rupert Hoogewerf, chief researcher of the Hurun China Rich List, explains how Zhong made it to the top, at CNN Business. Hoogewerf expects a new boom in billionaires from China, he says.Read More →
“Utter amazement” about the Tiktok deal – Harry Broadman
Harry Broadman might have earned his stripes in working in the US administration, the handling of the Tiktok deal filled him with “utter amazement”, he tells at Marketwatch. “Why issue the executive order if you are going to negotiate that way?” Broadman asks.Read More →
How London lost the Tiktok HQ – Matthew Brennan
For a while, London was in the running to get the Tiktok international headquarters, but under the Tiktok-Oracle deal the UK’s capital seems to have lost that opportunity, says China internet watcher Matthew Brennan to CNBC. That seems another setback for the UK now the country is already suffering under the corona crisis and Brexit.Read More →
Digital insurance boomed post-COVID – Rupert Hoogewerf
Digital insurance has become one of the post-corona winners in China, says Rupert Hoogewerf, chief researcher of the Hurun China Rich List as his firm published the first list of top-10 digital insurers, according to Asia One. Health insurance was one of the key winners, he says.Read More →
Dealing with racism in China – Zhang Lijia
As the Black Lives Matter movement took over some of the headlines, China typically dismissed racism as a Western problem. Author Zhang Lijia begs to differ, in The Wire. “The Chinese government claims to have “zero tolerance” for racism, but there have been no reports that anyone has been punishedRead More →
Tiktok’s growth: you ain’t seen nothing yet – Matthew Brennan
Bytedance’s Tiktok, known in China as Douyin, has for the first time disclosed some of the figures on its usage. Tiktok is only starting to grow, says internet watcher Matthew Brennan to CNBC. “You ain’t seen nothing yet, it’s still getting started,” he added.Read More →
Why did Oracle get the Tiktok deal? – Harry Broadman
Did get Oracle the Tiktok deal because it cozied up to the US president more than any of the other US companies, wonders international trade expert Harry Broadman at CNBC. Many questions remain after Microsoft was replaced by Oracle.Read More →
The Oracle-Tiktok deal will be very complicated – Harry Broadman
Oracle might have taken over from Microsoft as the potential buyer of Bytedance’s Tiktok, any agreement is going to be complicated, says Harry Broadman, a former member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) at CNN.Read More →
Taste defines success of plant-based meat – Ben Cavender
Plant-based meat producers, including US-based Beyond Meat, are entering the competitive China market. Their success depends on whether their products can convince the China consumers, says Shanghai-based business analyst Ben Cavender at Reuters.Read More →
China’s fintech explosion – Sara Hsu
Financial analyst Sara Hsu, co-author of the 2020 publication “China’s fintech explosion”, discusses how tech companies became the leaders in fintech, leaving the country’s giant banks behind. She addresses an online panel of USC’s US-China Institute and explains how an underserved community offers a fertile basis for the fintech explosion.Read More →
Vatican’s deal with Beijing: an understandable gamble – Ian Johnson
This month the provisory agreement for cooperating on the nomination of bishops between the Vatican and the Chinese government is up for renewable. Journalist Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao, explains why the deal was for the Roman-Catholic church an “understandable gamble,” according to the NCR.Read More →