China Speakers Bureau

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Former rocket factory worker Zhang Lijia compares in the New York Times her working life in Nanjing in the 1980s with todays life at the new factories of Foxconn and Honda. People often ask me if things have improved. It’s hard to say. There are stillRead More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Fantake via Flickr Becoming part of China’s elite is becoming harder, as the prices for luxury goods are rising fast, tells Rupert Hoogewerf, composer of the Hurun rich list, the Shanghai Daily. Especially property prices pushed the luxury index CPI sky high. The luxury CPI grew 11.3Read More →

Source: WSJ by Fantake via Flickr In the first week of June at the China Speakers Bureau we expanded our book publishing service. That was noted and friends have sent us this link to this June 4, article in the Wall Street Journal, putting our new service in a newRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr The recent unrest at Honda, Foxconn and other manufacturers in China are only the start of a change in the country’s demographic structure, Arthur Kroeber tells The Washing Post. “This is the thin end of a very long wedge,” said Arthur Kroeber, managing directorRead More →

Wendell Minnick by Fantake via Flickr Chinese delegates at the 9th Asia Security Summit earlier this month in Singapore showed increased impatience with their North Korean ally, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News, as an open debate seems impossible. “There is no open debate on the North Korean issue inRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr When China has a huge debts, financial experts in the West move into the crisis mode, while they better look what is happening in their own economies, says Arthur Kroeber in a comment in DNA India. “I’m mystified as to why people are obsessedRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Many internet users in China were pleasantly surprised when suddenly a range of previously blocked website were available, last Friday, including the twitter-interface Hootsuite, Voice of America, video-sharing site Vimeo and URL shortening site bit.ly. Even some foreign pornography was suddenly available.But that happinessRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein tries to look behind US president Obama’s policies on China in Forbes. He is not sure there is any. The entire strategy seems to be to avoid angering the Chinese. What kind of policy is that? True, it’s better not to humiliateRead More →

Paul French by Fantake via Flickr Urbanization is one of the major trends in China, tells Paul French, author of the upcoming book “Fat China” to PBS’s newshour.  The great trend in China is urbanization. People are moving into the cities. They’re moving away from the countryside, 10 million, 12Read More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Foreign manufacturers thought they were dealing with a docile labor force in China, but Arthur Kroeber tells Reuters they might have been wrong. An ongoing strike at Honda, larger numbers of suicides at Foxconn, rising salaries nationwide: foreign investors start to look around andRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr The rest of the worlds continues to put pressure on China to severe its relation with North Korea. Shaun Rein explains to CNBC why it will be very unlikely China will do so: China still has to win much by keeping North Korea asRead More →