by Fantake via Flickr After the US announced a levy on Chinese tires, many observers feared a possible trade war between two of the world’s largest economies. According to Dragonomics director Arthur Kroeber from Beijing in Finfacts, a repeat of the 1930s trade wars is highly unlikely.Finfacts: Beijing has builtRead More →
Image by Getty Images via Daylife (this is a follow up of a set of stories from our monthly newsletter) Up to not so long ago the speakers business was a pretty localized business. When you would run an Australian speakers agency, your clients and speakers would mostly be Australians.Read More →
Annette Nijs by Fantake via Flickr The summer is drawing to a close, the first full summer we have been in business as a speakers bureau. That means that after a pretty lazy month, requests are hitting our mailbox again, including the first few panic calls for as early asRead More →
Fudan University via Wikipedia Shaun Rein reacts on an article in the New York Times, describing US youngsters moving to China to find the work they could not find at home. It is not that easy, he says in Forbes. Often government regulations, like in media or telecom, prevent foreigners fromRead More →
Zhang Lijia at Chateau deLavigny by Fantake via Flickr Zhang Lijia, the author of “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, is the highest runner up in the most-sought list of July 2009, is the biggest mover of the month, although she moved only from the thirdRead More →
Image by Wonderlane via Flickr We have just launched our June 2009 newsletter including details about Zhang Lijia’s trips to Europe and the US. Also an overview of the waves our speakers made in the mainstream media in the past four weeks. You can read the China Speakers Bureau newsletterRead More →
Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr How do I get into the picture? Every month after publishing our monthly top-10 most-sought speakers some of the few hundred who did not make it to the list wonder themselves what they can do to improve their ranking. There is only one adviceRead More →
Image via Wikipedia When a Chinese company who never build a car bought the Hummer from GM, one of the largest problems of the Detroit car giant, many predicted huge problems. But Shaun Rein tells Forbes he sees also some positive sides on the deal. The assumption is that theRead More →
Xu Ming, currently the Asia-Pacific director of the IEDE business school from Madrid and a former Chinese diplomat in Latin America, has joined the China Speakers Bureau as a speaker. From our profile: As a former diplomat in Latin America, Xu Ming is not only a fluent Spanish-speaker, but alsoRead More →
Image via Wikipedia In the latest newsletter for May 2009 of the China Speakers Bureau we make clear China will not, and does not want to.But China is offering the world unprecedented opportunities, as part of its 1.5 trillion US dollar in foreign reserves are being spent. Our speakers canRead More →
Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr At the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have been doing some bean counting again and have made our monthly top-10 of most-sought speakers. (Here you can find the April 2009 one.) Some fast upwards movements in positions, although more than halfRead More →
Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr In April we see at the China Speakers Bureau , compared to our March listing, a remarkable set of newcomers in the top-10 of most sought speakers for the month, although some have been there in previous months. Only the first four are maintaining aRead More →