Former Alibaba executive Sharon Gai explains how AI is changing the retail industry beyond recognition. Amazon was the pioneer in this field, although now nobody can ignore the change AI is causing globally.Read More →
China’s economic situation has deteriorated over the past two months, says business analyst Shaun Rein in a discussion on CNBC. The hope for a financial bazooka to boost the economy by the government has not materialized and is unlikely to do so. The government seems fine with the current 4/5% growth and also lacks the money to spend as tax income has remained poor, while geopolitical challenges forces the Chinese government to be prudent too.Read More →
Why is China calling itself a democracy when it is not according to most definitions? China scholar Ian Johnson, a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, discusses this and other political issues at the Council on Foreign Relations. In the same way, it is not a dictatorship where Xi Jinping can decide on all issues in the country, he says.Read More →
Whether the world is heading for a recession does not depend on the state of China’s economy, but on demand in de US, says China economist Arthur Kroeber at the CNBC. In the eyes of Xi Jinping, China is not doing as bad as some economists say it does, he adds.Read More →
The golden age for expats in China has ended, argues consultant Gabor Holch, author of Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Executives In China. But that decline already started in 2016, so it is not only the Covid pandemic that can be blamed for that dramatic change, he says.Read More →
AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin dives into the future of the metaverse and discusses his book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, and how the world finds itself at the crossroads of a new industrial revolution, in a discussion with Cecilia Lascialfari.Read More →
While the controversy between China and the US is heating up, and almost every country tries to invest in their own AI, Alvin Wang Graylin, co-author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, pleads for a global approach to developing the new industrial revolution, he tells in an interview wat WISE on Air with Elyas Felfoul.Read More →
China veteran Ian Johnson, author of Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future (September 2023), and fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin describes how a generation of underground historians passed on their stories while staying under the radar.Read More →
China’s EV brands like NIO and BYD are currently beating Tesla, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein at CNBC. While China’s automotive industry is pushing out new models and innovations, Tesla looks old-fashioned with a model that has not changed over the past six, seven years, he adds.Read More →
AI is going to shape our future in an unprecedented way, innovation expert Alvin Wang Graylin of HTC argues in his book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse at his alma mater MIT.Read More →
US sanctions on China make it harder for Chinese companies to develop large-scale AI systems because they lack access to finance and computing power, says Winston Ma, adjunct professor of law at the New York University School of Law. But they will focus on AI applications and their commercialization rather than developing the big systems, he tells CNBC.Read More →
E-commerce expert Sharon Gai started her career at Alibaba and now explains to the rest of the world how consumer platforms in China work differently from the West, and why also newcomers like Shein and Temu work differently. A discussion on Retail TouchPoint.Read More →