How China leads the world in AI patents – Ashley Dudarenok
2024-10-29
Innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok explains how China leads the global competition for AI patents, six times over the US, she tells at TikTok.Read More →
What companies can learn from e-commerce in China – Sharon Gai
2024-04-26
AI and e-commerce expert Sharon Gai discusses what companies can learn from their competitors in China at a conference in Europe. China explained for non-Chinese marketeers.Read More →
Why the anti-TikTok law in the US does not make sense – Kaiser Kuo
2024-03-18
US lawmakers have started debate on a law that would ban the successful TikTok app. Political analyst Kaiser Kuo dismisses the effort as misguided at best, he writes in the ChinaFile. “In a sense, the threat of TikTok is real: In this crisis of confidence, and in a state of moral panic that we’ll look back on red-faced a decade out, TikTok is causing us to inflict grievous self-harm.”Read More →
Why Chinese enter the US through the Mexican border – Ian Johnson
2024-03-01
A large number of the illegal immigrants entering the US from Mexico are Chinese, and not only poor Chinese, says China scholar Ian Johnson in DW. They mostly rely on dubious information on TikTok and have no clue what kind of adventure they get into, he adds.Read More →
How Alibaba’s Taobao adjusted to tight-fisted consumers – Ashley Dudarenok
2023-12-13
China’s consumers are adjusting their purchasing habits and big players are adjusting their strategies to the search for cheaper products. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at the changed strategy of Alibaba’s Taobao for the Double 12 festival, she says at marketing-interactive.Read More →
How China’s internet platforms differ from those in the West – Sharon Gai
2023-12-11
China’s platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok can conquer Western markets, but Western retail apps fail to do the same in China. E-commerce expert Sharon Gai gives some reason for that difference in the Australian network ABC.Read More →
Why low-cost platforms are logical winners – Sharon Gai
2023-12-11
Shein, Temu and TikTok have become winning platforms on the internet, and for a good reason, says e-commerce expert Sharon Gai at the Rest of the World. “Globally you have an economic slowdown, so a lot of consumers are also spending less per platform,” Read More →
How artists can make money from their music – William Bao Bean
2023-11-27
Investor William Bao Bean, Managing Director of Orbit startups, explains how he helped artists make money from their music at All That Matters 2023, introducing three successful investments from his portefeuille. Explaining the fast-changing models to generate money, using for example Tiktok/Douyin, and many more new tech models.Read More →
How is China’s comeback working out – Shaun Rein/Ashley Dudarenok
2023-11-27
Business analyst Shaun Rein is interviewed by marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok on the most recent developments, as consumer confidence in China is slowly recovering at the end of 2023. But because of the ongoing trouble with the US, and because US firms fear more counterproductive measures by US President Biden, there are still many bears on the road to economic recovery. China focuses more on domestic companies, as US companies retreat, and the global south turns decisively to China for support, he says.Read More →
Going global: key for getting rich – Rupert Hoogewerf
2023-10-24
The 2023 Hurun China rich list sees changes, and Rupert Hoogewerf, the Hurun Report chairman and chief researcher, sees efforts to go global as a key factor for growing riches, he tells Reuters. PDD’s Temu, ByteDance’s short-video platform TikTok, and ultra-fast fashion brand Shein he sees as examples.Read More →
TikTok, Huawei’s successes are in the US defined as security risks – Shaun Rein
2023-08-17
“When the Chinese get good at something, all of the sudden, the United States says, ‘This is a national security risk’”, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein on the tech arms race between China and the US, where Huawei, TikTok, and others got into trouble in the US, in his interview with Ian Bremmer.Read More →
Why China’s livestreamers focus on Europe and the US – Shaun Rein
2023-07-25
Live streaming is a solid marketing tool in China, but some of the live streamers focus now on TikTok for Europe and the US. Business analyst Shaun Rein explains to AP why that shift is happening.Read More →