Both consumers and e-commerce firms in China are preparing for the famous 618 shopping festival. Marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok explains in her vlog why consumers love the largest of many online shopping festivals and why e-commerce firms need a boost in a market that is not growing as fast as in the past.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok discusses how innovation changes the post-corona travel plans of China’s consumers. Tourism should be preparing for some changes, she argues. And when will the Chinese be ready to travel?Read More →
Political scientist Victor Shih discusses his upcoming book, Coalitions of the Weak, on the road from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, who will likely enter his third term as China’s undisputed later in 2022. Read More →
Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein – in this sixth week of quarantine – explains why it was needed for the 26-million city to lock down fully.Read More →
Strategic consultant Ben Cavender looks back at this 15 years in China and how he helped foreign companies to get a handle on working in the country. Some dynamic decades passed by and the future does not look less challenging, he tells at the Wizard’s Institute.Read More →
CFR scholar and China veteran Ian Johnson discusses the country’s difficult balancing act between keeping control and economic growth at a panel of the Council of Foreign Relations, with of course attention to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, COVID-19, and China’s agenda.Read More →
CFR-scholar and China expert Ian Johnson discusses the relations between China and Russia as the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds further at the Washington Journal of C-Span.Read More →
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised multiple questions on China’s relationship with Russia, Taiwan, and the USA. CFR-scholar Ian Johnson looks at the CFR-blog at a wide range of the international fallout of recent affairs. And can and will China bail out Putin from the economic and financial sanctions?Read More →
Leading economist Arthur Kroeber looks at how China changed between the Olympics of 2008 and 2022 at the US Council of Foreign Relations. The role of the state, while it has always been strong, did become more emphasis on the economy and business relations, he tells at the forum.Read More →
Consumption patterns of Gen-Z and millennials vary greatly from older generations in China, says branding expert Arnold Ma in the Jing Daily. “They are more focused on themselves and less so on the collective. There are lots of opportunities [for luxury brands] here,” says Arnold Ma.Read More →
China leapfrogged ahead in developing technology by using advantages through mobile-first, blockchain and AI, tells technology analyst Winston Ma in an interview with state-owned CGTN. How China got a headstart in new technology compared to the US, now followed by the digital currency.Read More →
China watcher Kaiser Kuo tries to make sense out of China, in a world where polarized views on the second economy in the world often lead to exchanges of opinion and less analysis of facts, he told at the end of 2021 at the Europa Forum in Luzern, Switzerland.Read More →