China Speakers Bureau

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Education is lagging in China, warn Shaun Rein, who sees a country that is too content with its current achievements and stalls much needed reforms, he tells in Forbes.Some of the faculty are becoming world class and much money is being spent, but thatRead More →

Hurun by Fantake via Flickr Just in time for our March Newsletter, we discovered a small bug in the registration tool for our popular newsletter. You can now register again for our newsletter by filling in your email address in the box at the right top part of this website.Read More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Fantake via Flickr Dogs have been a symbol of wealth in China, since its economic developed took off seriously in the 1990s. But just a dog is not enough anymore, the rich of today need a Tibetan mastiff says Rupert Hoogewerf, next to houses and cars ofRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Many China commenters have given their verdicts about what the departure of Google’s search engine from China means. Here a short overview of what the members of the China Speakers Bureau had to say in the past few days.Global Post: Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-basedRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr At Bloomberg Shaun Rein describes the rising tension in China’s bureaucracy after Google decided last night to redirect its China searches to Hong Kong. While he praises the government’s “measured response” (or merely the lack of any response to Google’s actions), now he seesRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr The world is in too many cases waking up too late from a prolonged winter. China has jumped into action, after the annual meetings of the NPC and CPPCC meetings in Beijing, and also at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau hibernationRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Local governments in China depend for their income mostly on the sales of land, not on tax revenue. As debts went up and only the larger cities have still enough land to sell off, that methods might not be sustainable in the long run,Read More →

William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr Twitter is blocked in China and some suggest the US company might give it a try in the Middle Kingdom. But that has consequences, warns VC William Bao Bean from Shanghai in Media Asia. While the saga of Google in China is still unfolding,Read More →

Paul Krugman via Wikipedia Last month our Shaun Rein explained why Jim Chanos was wrong when he said that China would be worse than a thousand Dubai’s. This week in Forbes he goes up a notch in the food chain and tells us why economist and Nobel price winner PaulRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr When we started in January our little sequel “Why Google is leaving China”, people asked us if it would not be an option for Google to stay in China. Even in the early start of the problems Google inflicted on itself, the question wasRead More →

Mark Schaub by Fantake via Flickr The battle stories on doing China business in the past illustrate how much China has changed for the better. Shanghai-based Lawyer Mark Schaub recalls in the book A Changing China, produced by the Chna Speakers Bureau, how his legal profession has become much moreRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr (Now updated with the original speech at YouTube)In his speech at the famous Austin SXSW China’s prominent internet watcher Kaiser Kuo closed his keynote with a few scenario’s Google has in China. Google threatened to leave China in January after hacker attacks in December, said it wouldRead More →