While he remains optimistic about China’s economy in the long run, he foresees a rough time in most of 2025 as deflation and layoffs melt away the financial stimuli of the past months, tells business analyst Shaun Rein at CNBC’s Squawk Box. He sees a recovery only in nine to twelve months as consumer confidence is not going up in 2025.Read More →
Most visitors to China know the larger cities, but marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok dives into Yunnan, this time the community-based agricultural markets that are so different from the cities.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 →
While the stiff inflation rate was one of the key reasons US voters preferred Trump over Harris, Trump’s announced China tariffs would increase the costs for US consumers, warns Harry Broadman, former U.S. assistant trade representative in the George H. W. Bush administration in Dow Jones.Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein tells AP that the 11/11 singles day shopping bonanza has lost its previously sensational attraction. Even the shopping highlight has not been immune to the lackluster mood among China’s consumers.Read More →
Now the USA has elected Donald Trump as its next president, traders in China are bracing for another backlash, reports trade expert Ashley Dudarenok on its LinkedIn page. “Trump’s proposed 60% tariffs on Chinese imports + 10-20% on other global goods would set US tariff levels at their highest since the 1940s,” she writes.Read More →
While bullish on the Chinese economy in the long run, business analyst Shaun Rein at CNBC says investors should still be trading down today. While the government financial mini-bazooka has revived the equity markets quite well, he adds, it is not enough to get the economy rolling again.Read More →
China’s consumers spend less on luxury products, especially foreign brands, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok at the state-owned China Daily. Only domestic luxury brands are partly escaping that downward trend, she says.Read More →
Despite the hope of the international financial community, China is not heading for structural reforms, says leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, to CNBC. Pushing up demand is not high on the agenda for China’s leadership, he says, and they do not want to push up debts levels to new heights.Read More →
Leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, says most economists are wrong in suggesting China wants to push consumer demand. Fixing stability is key, he says according to MSN.Read More →
Business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, explains why China’s mini-bazooka will not help its economy in the long run. People need a serious fiscal stimulus, so they are confident about the economy again, he argues in a talk with David Lin. “People have to feel safe again before they are going to spend the money they made again,” he adds.Read More →