Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, explains why China will not give in to Trump’s demands and why the idea of getting manufacturing back to the US is an illusion Americans should forget, he says at the Thinkers Forum.Read More →
Al Jazeera looks back at China’s president’s visit to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia. Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein qualifies the trip as a real win for China in the trade war with US President Trump, and China could profile itself as a stable and trusted force in international trade, he says.Read More →
In Al Jazeera, Harry Broadman, a former US assistant trade representative and one of the chief negotiators of the WTO, wonders what Trump’s real plan is with these tariffs when it comes to China, decoupling or ending all business. “He’s obviously a deals guy in real estate, but not international markets … How he thinks is, ‘How can I win and how can I make the opponent lose?’” he said.Read More →
China’s consumers, workers, and manufacturers look with relative confidence in their country’s position in the tariff war between the US and the rest of the world. Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at the social media, memes, comments, and other reactions of the Chinese, she tells at Time.Read More →
After more than a week of confusion after US President Trump imposed and maintained massive tariffs on Chinese goods, one thing is sure, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order. The Chinese will not kowtow to Trump, he tells Moats, and they have won round one.Read More →
China might have the upper hand in dealing with the US president’s efforts to curtail the country’s economy with sky-high tariffs, suggests leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, in the Christian Science Monitor. “The government believes China can sustain the pain longer than the U.S. consumer can … and the U.S. will cave first,” he says.Read More →
The jury is still out on whether Trump’s tariffs on imports from China will hurt the US or China more. But political analyst Victor Shih has seen how China has been anticipating the latest wave of tariffs, he tells CNN. “But China can sustain that (situation) much more so than American politicians can,” he said.Read More →
Much attention goes to industrial innovation as a way to save China’s sluggish economy. But leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, is not too sure that path is helping the economy, he tells at NPR. “Growth is probably going to be pretty sluggish for a few more years yet. And they’re not going to get this magical nirvana that they hope for,” he addsRead More →
Technology expert Alwin Wang Graylin, author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, explains how the AI arms race between China and the US is going to shape the upcoming five to ten years at the 2025 Abundance 360 Summit and moderated by Peter Diamandis.Read More →
Tariffs and sanctions on China are not going to help the US, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein. Only fair competition can help, certainly not when it comes to AI, he argues in The Rise of Asia.Read More →
China veteran Kaiser Kuo, host of the renowned Sinica Podcast, moderates a debate on China’s strategy in the global power transitions for the Ukrainian Platform for Contemporary China. Some of the key questions: How does the Russo-Ukrainian War affect China’s relations with its key partners? How has the Russo-Ukrainian War reshaped China’s economic capacity?Read More →
China’s consumers turn to local brands because they tend to be cheaper than international brands, and because of patriotism because of the US-China trade war, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein to CNBC. Anti-US sentiment was already virulent under Biden because of anti-Chinese measures. Under Trump that has not yet improved, adds Shaun Rein, but the Chinese hope Trump is more transactional than Biden was.Read More →