The F-117 via Wikipedia Much attention last month for China’s first stealth fighter plane, and whether is was based on stolen US technology. Too little attention China’s counterstealth technology got, like missiles to shoot down those planes, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News: China’s top air-to-air missile research institute hasRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The situation in China has very little in common with Egypt, says Shain Rein in CNBC, but China’s leadership can learn a few lessons from the country’s turmoil. When trouble will occur, it will come from the students, not the middle class. While itRead More →
Kaiser Kuo by shelisrael1 via Flickr The year of the rabbit in nearing fast and it is a good moment to look back on how our speakers have been doing in popularity. So this month, in a deviation of our monthly practise, we composed a list of most-sought speakers forRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr America should not give in on its core values like its democracy, writes Shaun Rein in Forbes, but it can most certainly learn a few lessons from the way China dealt with the financial crisis. First, although China’s leaders are not elected democratically, theyRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein recalls in CNBC a proposed investment of US§ 50 million in a Chinese internet venture that did not exist, and was only cancelled after some solid due dilligence was done. The investor “had only been to China once, when the CEO ofRead More →
Howard French via Wikipedia Former New York Times correspondent Howard French tells Radio Open Source extensively of how China is successfully building inroads into Africa, after the failure of the West. I was struck every time I got on a plane: the Westerners tend to be rich American tourists onRead More →
No message for them by rebuildingdemocracy Taiwan test-fired eleven types of missiles last Tuesday, but denies any link with China’s Hu Jintao’s state visit to the US, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Taiwan test-fired missiles of 11 different types during an exercise on Jan. 18 at the Jiupeng MissileRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr US investors should be very cautious spending their money on Chinese companies like bookseller Dangdang or video hosting company Youku who have no clear business model or otherwise a hard time to show a profit, warns Shaun Rein in this debate on CNBC. WhileRead More →
Hu Jintao via Wikipedia The military take on president Hu Jintao by testing their J-20 stealth fighter just days before he leave for the US, writes John Pomfret in the Washington Post. Wrong, argues Shaun Rein in CNBC. The opposite is true. President Hu is undoubtedly quite in control ofRead More →
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Many upcoming global brands in China still suffer from their ‘made in China’ stigma, Shaun Rein tells CNBC. “The ‘Made in China’ stigma is serious,” flagged Shaun Rein, managing director of Shanghai-based China Market Research Group, adding that Chinese brands need to establish an elementRead More →
Kaiser Kuo via Wikipedia Baidu’s spokesperson Kaiser Kuo initiated the idea of an English-language weblog to offer the outside world a window on China, he tells the Voice of America. Baidu is China’s largest search engine. The VOA: Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo said he came up with the idea forRead More →
Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein met over New Year in Beijing many confident officials, but he sees in Forbes at least three concerns for 2011, inflation on number one: Even though official inflation was 5.1% in November, every day the Chinese feel much more of a squeeze thanRead More →