How China became successful – Jim Rogers
2021-12-13
Veteran investor Jim Rogers explains how countries became successful and how China is following that global path to wealth, he tells at this Huawei commercial.Read More →
China’s wave of regulatory change – Ashley Dudarenok
2021-11-25
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at the wave of regulatory changes hitting industries and especially tech firms at her vlog. “China tries to set up a more sustainable digital ecosystem,” she explainsRead More →
Why China does better than the US in Africa – Howard French
2021-11-17
Africa is high on China’s diplomatic agenda, says Howard French, author of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. China is winning in Africa for that reason, While the US is losing, he tells at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.Read More →
Sourcing, supply chain challenges and the new 5-year plan – Mark Schaub
2021-11-16
Lawyer and China veteran Mark Schaub looks at how foreign firms have been sourcing in China over the past 20 years, and how supply chain challenges developed, at the latest webinar of his law firm KWM. “The real market is now the domestic market,” he says.Read More →
Is the world heading for a Cold War 2.0? – Ian Johnson
2021-11-15
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 →
Why Pakistan matters – William Bao Bean
2021-11-12
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
2021-11-12
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 →
How China-US relations keep on deteriorating over the decades – Kaiser Kuo
2021-11-03
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 →
Travel startups dealing with the COVID-19 crisis – William Bao Bean
2021-11-01
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
2021-11-01
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
2021-10-28
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 →
How new finance rules triggered off Evergrande’s fall – Victor Shih
2021-10-27
Financial and political analyst Victor Shih explains how the fall of Evergrande was triggered off by new financial regulations, and why Evergrande cannot be compared to the Lehman crisis in the US, he tells at a discussion at the German MERICS institute.Read More →