Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, looks at what Western media miss when they report about China in a wide-ranging discussion with Cyrus Janssen. They wrongly assume China is unstable and often miss the essence of what happens in the country. For example, when the government cracked down on Alibaba founder Jack Ma. What that was about was not a political struggle, but an effort to create a level playing field, where the larger IT companies did not dominate the market anymore, Rein says.Read More →

Business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, dives into the future of EU-China relations, as Trump is getting settle for his second term as US president. He discusses the currently hostile relationship between some of the EU leaders and how the European continent can move ahead with a better relationship with China, more independent from the United States, he tells Volker Friedrich.Read More →

Shaun Rein, author of  The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, uses a well-deserved holiday in Thailand for a signing session of his latest book. And to his surprise, the first buy was Thailand’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary of Thailand, Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara.Read More →

Innovation expert Alvin Wang Graylin discusses his latest book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, and explains to an audience at the Future Porty why the next generation in the next two or three decades will enter a new reality. 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

High praise for the book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, co-authored by Alvin Wang Graylin on how AI and the metaverse will format our future, by Carol Goyal in Brand Equity.Read More →