China’s President Xi Jinping turned against his erstwhile handpicked ally Admiral Miao Hua, a member of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC). Political analyst Victor Shih explains at CNN this change in Xi’s long-standing struggle against corruption.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok asks on her vlog whether luxury brands should discount in China’s difficult economy. She argues that a lot depends on the long-term strategy, and the answer might vary.Read More →
In an interview with Keith Yap, shanghai-based best-seller author and business analyst Shaun Rein, recently published The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order and explains what the West gets wrong about China’s economy and how the country is working.Read More →
China is a complicated market, where consumers know what they want and what they do not want, tells marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok. She says that finding the right channel is the start of a complicated process.Read More →
The temperature of the trade relations between China and the EU has been going up, but business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, does not expect it will be an all-out trade war, he tells CNBC. Rein expects China’s response to be “measured” as it seeks closer economic relations with Europe amid intensifying tensions with the U.S., he says.Read More →
The Chinese opinions on Elon Musk might still go to extremes in both directions, but his mother Maye Musk did win many Chinese hearts and souls. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains why Maye Musk did so well in NBC News.Read More →
China veteran and lawyer Mark Schaub, senior partner at King & Wood Mallesons, has released a new book Unlocking International Joint Ventures: Keys to Formation Success through Cultural, Commercial, and Legal Decision-Making together with Dr. Alan MacCharles, partner at Deloitte Consulting. Read More →
Financial expert Victor Shih, director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, discusses today’s state of China’s economy at the Centre for Geopolitics with William Hurst, and how it has developed in the 25-year long collaboration between both.Read More →
Berlin-based journalist and researcher Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Ma0, joins an Asia Society panel on moral authority and how the Chinese government has dealt with faiths over the past decade. While Christianity and Islam are curtailed, traditional faiths are embraced, he says. Other participants include professor Xi Lian, and Whitman College Assistant Professor Yuan Xiaobo. Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis Fellow G.A. Donovan moderates the conversation.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains on her TikTok channel that drones have become a common feature in China and will change the country even more in the next two to three years.Read More →
Increasingly global brands not only look at China as a potential market but also as a guide on how they can use the country’s digital transformation for their global ambitions, writes marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok on her website Chozan. “By this year, China’s digital transformation sector is expected to reach $221.95 billion. It is forecasted by Mordor Intelligence to expand to $410.67 billion by 2029, with an annual growth rate of 13.1% over these years,” she writes.Read More →
While the stiff inflation rate was one of the key reasons US voters preferred Trump over Harris, Trump’s announced China tariffs would increase the costs for US consumers, warns Harry Broadman, former U.S. assistant trade representative in the George H. W. Bush administration in Dow Jones.Read More →