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Understanding Trial Spots

By on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments

If there is one thing which most western companies coming into China miss out on is the idea of “trial spots”, or as they are called in Chinese 试点。 So what is it? Basically, it’s a city, place, province or region which is used to try out something experimental which has not been tried before. [...]

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Why China Won’t Throw A Lifeline To The West

By on Sunday, October 12th, 2008 | 7 Comments

Image via Wikipedia With all the chaos on world’s markets, it is easy to overlook developments in China. The biggest piece of Chinese domestic news is the decision to give limited rights to land use to China’s farmers. This decision came out of the Third Plenary Session of the 17th Party Congress of the Chinese [...]

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The New Investment Rules For China

By on Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Following on the global credit crisis, many have come to me to ask how these changes will affect China. As I have said earlier, China and the US are two sides to the same coin, and it pays to look at them as one economy, as this Newsweek article does. It goes without saying that [...]

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There Is No China Market

By on Monday, September 1st, 2008 | 6 Comments

One of my biggest complaints about western observers of China is the overly used term “China market”. In fact, there is no China market, just as there is no European market. While there is a European Union, which many Europeans complain about as some kind of bloated legislative bureaucratic monster, it would be silly for [...]

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Chinese Government’s CSRC To Fund Managers: No Bad News

By on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments

The Chinese government’s watchdog for equities, the CSRC (China Securities Regulatory Commission) has issued an edict to local fund managers that they are not to issue any pessimistic reports about equities during the Olympics in Beijing. My question is “Why bother?” The Shanghai market has been down 50% in the first half of the year, [...]

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Apple and China: The American Media Ignorance Continues

By on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | 14 Comments

Over the past year, the tone of coverage of many China-related topics in the US has improved. For the most part, writers covering China have tried to look past the generally-accepted stereotypes, and have tried to get a deeper understanding of what is going on in China. But occasionally something finds its way through the [...]

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Chinese Economy: Early Signs of Rapid Deceleration

By on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off

Some signs point to a rapid deceleration of the Chinese economy: Politburo to convene urgent economic meeting Chinese Domestic Olympic Travel Falls Lower Than Expectations Unsold inventories climbing Shanghai Vanke first to lower real estate prices in Shanghai (in Chinese) The whole idea of an urgent politburo meeting just three weeks before the Beijing Olympics [...]

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China’s Biggest Challenge for Developing the West

By on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | 7 Comments

The Chinese government has done much to encourage the development of China’s west, particularly Sichuan province, which is the home to some 100 million people, making it larger in population than any single western European country, including Britain, France and even Germany. From a business and consumers’ point of view, the region holds tremendous promise. [...]

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Getting Into China for Foreign Tech, Biz Pros

By on Monday, February 11th, 2008 | 3 Comments

More frequently now, US-based (mostly Silicon Valley) tech and business professionals are contacting me, asking how to find work in China. The business people usually want to get paid US salary to stay in the US and do some BD work for a US or Chinese company. The technology people usually want to find work [...]

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This is a joke, right?

By on Friday, February 8th, 2008 | 3 Comments

When I read the first few paragraphs, I thought it might be a joke. It read: “Oxford university’s latest professor is a top Chinese expert on mathematical finance who aims to understand how markets are affected by traders’ gambling and irrational risk-taking.” This was followed by: A new chair has been created for Xunyu Zhou [...]

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