The US and China have the best ecosystem for startups, because of the scale of their markets and the quality of their universities, combined with strong government support, says Hurun chairman Rupert Hoogewerf in his New Year speech at ECNS for the Year of the Snake.Read More →
Rupert Hoogewerf, founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List, looks back at the 25-anniversary of his Hurun Rich List and explains how his company survived all the twists and turns in China’s recent history.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 →
While in the past youth looked for jobs in the private sector or at foreign companies, they now look for government jobs as they offer more security, says Arthur Kroeber, leading economist and author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Most graduates feel the sluggish Chinese economy will continue for some time, he says on CNBC.Read More →
Rupert Hoogewerf, Hurun Report Chairman and Chief Researcher, presented on Wednesday in Beijing “the Hurun Future Unicorns – Global Gazelles Index 2024, a list of the world’s start-ups founded in the 2000s but not yet listed on a public exchange and most likely to ”go unicorn”,(meaning hitting a valuation of US$1bln) within three years,” writes the ECNS. Read More →
China lawyer Mark Schaub expects an uptick in joint ventures in 2025, and in his latest China Chit-chat, he explains the pros and cons of this legal vehicle. “Due to geopolitics and business uncertainty,” he writes.Read More →
The introduction of the digital yuan didn’t make much headlines in 2024, but financial expert Winston Ma, an adjunct law professor at New York University and former managing director at China’s sovereign wealth fund, expects the debate will be back in 2025, he tells the Cointelegraph.Read More →
Financial expert Victor Shih, director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, discusses today’s state of China’s economy at the Centre for Geopolitics with William Hurst, and how it has developed in the 25-year long collaboration between both.Read More →
Winston Ma, Professor (Adjunct) and Executive Director, Global Public Investment Funds Forum, New York University School of Law and author of “The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds Are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy” gives advice on how to find the new unicorns and where to invest in digital infrastructure, cloud computing, and data preparation at the Cube, hosted by SiliconANGLE Media Inc. Co-Founder and Co-CEO John Furrier.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 →
China has started to push capital into its sluggish economy, but economists have different opinions on what the government wants to achieve. According to Arthur Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®, its financial measures are more about stabilizing its economy, not about a full-blown stimulus as it did in the past, he says at the ChinaFile.Read More →