Wendell Minnick by Fantake via Flickr Chinese delegates at the 9th Asia Security Summit earlier this month in Singapore showed increased impatience with their North Korean ally, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News, as an open debate seems impossible. “There is no open debate on the North Korean issue inRead More →
Jasper Becker by Fantake via Flickr Our monthly overview of the most-sought speakers shows two remarkable trends. First, our number one Kaiser Kuo has left behind the pack. He is not firmly leading on the fist position, leaving behind the rest of the top-10. Second, we see a relative highRead More →
Janet Carmosky by Fantake via Flickr Kaiser Kuo, the most quoted person in the Google/China brawl, has solidified his position in the top-10 most-sought speakers of April. A remarkable achievement, since Shaun Rein, our number two, has been beating his drum also in a major way in the mainstream media.WeRead More →
Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr The world is in too many cases waking up too late from a prolonged winter. China has jumped into action, after the annual meetings of the NPC and CPPCC meetings in Beijing, and also at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau hibernationRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Just in time to convey you with the best wishes for the year of the tiger, at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have done our home work again and figured out who were the most popular speakers of this month.Read More →
We are in the second day after Google announced it might withdraw from China after massive attacks on email account of human rights activists. While not much more information has come to the surface, the main question that was posed yesterday did not get an answer: Is Google packing itsRead More →
Still no.1 via Wikipedia When you are reading these words, two historical events might be over. First, and you might have noticed that one, is the first visit of US president Barack Obama to China. The second one, many of you might not have noticed, but Europe might have itsRead More →
Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Just like in September, our top-10 ranking of most-sought speakers sees this month a relative huge shift, including a new number one: Kaiser Kuo. Shaun Rein has been holding this place since we started the ranking last year after we started the China SpeakersRead More →
Jasper Becker by Fantake via Flickr Relatively large changes in our top-10 of most-sought speakers at the China Speakers Bureau for September, compared to August. At least four newcomers, although the top-2, Shaun Rein and Kaiser Kuo remain unchallenged.Highest newcomer is the respected China-author Jasper Becker who appears on theRead More →
Annette Nijs by Fantake via Flickr The summer is drawing to a close, the first full summer we have been in business as a speakers bureau. That means that after a pretty lazy month, requests are hitting our mailbox again, including the first few panic calls for as early asRead More →
Zhang Lijia at Chateau deLavigny by Fantake via Flickr Zhang Lijia, the author of “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, is the highest runner up in the most-sought list of July 2009, is the biggest mover of the month, although she moved only from the thirdRead More →
Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr In April we see at the China Speakers Bureau , compared to our March listing, a remarkable set of newcomers in the top-10 of most sought speakers for the month, although some have been there in previous months. Only the first four are maintaining aRead More →