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Is China taking over the US? – Jim Rogers
China is taking over the US, and the US are among the least competitive countries in the world, says super-investor Jim Rogers on SBTV.Read More →
Exploring video conferences: zoom or Tencent meeting? (updated)
As the coronavirus hits big parts of the world outside China, at the China Speakers Bureau we are looking at alternatives in video conferencing. In the past we worked with Google Hangouts, but our mostly conservative event organizers preferred to stick to real life meetings, and we abolished this tool.
But times are changing, and the internal debate at the CSB on exploring video conferences as an alternative for real-life meetings has popped up again. Currently we are looking at two tools: Zoom and Tencent Meetings. Zoom has become fast the preferred choice for many outside China, and we have already good experiences with them. But Tencent Meetings (VooV) is also emerging, and even helping the United Nations in setting up public conferences.Read More →
How to catch a fast-changing China after the coronacrisis – Shaun Rein/Ashley Dudarenok
An even faster shift to online, domestic tourism and health care related activities. Business analyst Shaun Rein sums up how China is changing faster after the corona crisis is over, in an interview with Ashley Dudarenok. Are international brands even more leverage to domestic brands, both wonder.Read More →
Why China is leading the way after the coronavirus crisis – William Bao Bean
While the rest of the world is firmly into a lockdown, China is slowly getting back to normal. That is only one of the reasons why the country is leading the way after the coronavirus crisis, says William Bao Bean, partner, SOSV Capital and Managing Director, Chinaccelerator from Shanghai to Webintravel in a podcast.Read More →
How coronavirus changed China’s e-commerce landscape – Ashley Dudarenok
China’s e-commerce players JD, Alibaba and Pinduoduo tried to build leverage during the coronavirus crisis, explains marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok at Bloomberg. And how are they profiting now the demand for Chinese products in the rest of the world is down?Read More →
Coronavirus: larger effect than the 2008 earthquake – Ian Johnson
Journalist Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao interviews author and journalist Yuan Ling after he got into quarantine in his home province Shaanxi. “The virus has already had a deeper impact on the people than even the [2008] Sichuan earthquake [that killed 69,000],” Yuan Ling tells Ian Johnson on the phone, for the New York Review of Books.Read More →
Online education: a big winner in the coronavirus crisis – Rupert Hoogewerf
Online education is one of the big winners in the ongoing corona crisis, next to health care, says Hurun rich list maker Rupert Hoogewerf in the South China Morning Post. “Valuations of traditional education institutions had recorded a severe drop, compared to the quick rise of education technology-focused companies,” he says.Read More →
Local officials prefer a slow economy over virus spread – Victor Shih
China has been betting on two horses: restarting the economy and preventing the coronavirus from spreading. Political analyst Victor Shih sees how local officials put their bets: they prefer the virus from stopping over a risky restart of production, he says at CNN.Read More →
Business expected to resume in July, August
Last week we saw a resumption of economic activities in China, and hoped our speakers’ business would be up to steam before the summer, including a few months for event organizers to get their act together. But recent developments show that the coronavirus crisis might only be starting in the rest of the world, as European countries and the US have started to lockdown their economic activities to stop the spread of the virus. Together with gloomy assessments of the lackluster way those countries deal with the crisis, our first analysis might have been too optimistic.Read More →
Investment strategies during a downturn – William Bao Bean
William Bao Bean, Shanghai-based managing director of startup accelerator Chinaaccelerator, discusses his investment strategy as the world is in disarray because of the coronavirus, at Focus Wire. “When things are bad, no one really does anything, and when things are hot, everybody’s investing,” Bean says.Read More →
The West has not yet started to fight the coronavirus – Jim Rogers
Super investor Jim Rogers discusses the monetarian measures by Western central banks, while in China their colleagues have not lowered interest rates to fight the effects of the coronavirus. In Europe and the US they have not even started to fight the virus and we have to see how that works out, he tells at CGTN.Read More →
US-China relations no priority for either country – Victor Shih
US president Trump might be doing his best to upset China in every possible way, but US-China relations are no longer top priority for either country, says political analyst Victor Shih at NBC News. “Fundamentally the big problem on both sides is that you now have leadership which no longer considers having good bilateral relationships as a highest priority,”Read More →