China Speakers Bureau

The Google debate on China has opened the debate on how the country censors the internet again, but Shaun Rein asks in Forbes for a reality check: the internet in China is freer than ever, he says. Seven years ago Chinese citizens couldn’t access The New York Times. A yearRead More →

Branding is high on the agenda of many companies in China, but its works mostly with the top-layer of rich Chinese, says Hurun-founder Rupert Hoogewerf to Bloomberg. In the Hurun magazine Hoogewerf lists their preferences: holidays in the US, watches from Cartier and Philippe Paket, they smoke Chunghwa and flightRead More →

Image via CrunchBase Google committed an act of war against China, says Shaun Rein in Forbes in the third day after the US firm announced it would leave China after its Gmail service got attacked by what other says would be Chinese forces. The media upheaval still shows no signRead More →

We are in the second day after Google announced it might withdraw from China after massive attacks on email account of human rights activists. While not much more information has come to the surface, the main question that was posed yesterday did not get an answer: Is Google packing itsRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Famous economists take very different positions on the questions whether China’s economy is a bubble or not. In Forbes Shaun Rein explains James Chanos China has no bubble. Making some bucks on telling the world about China’s demise, economically or otherwise, has been partRead More →

Shanghai Fantake via Flickr Going against the comments of many fellow economic analysts, Arthur Kroeber simply does not believe China is even close to a real estate bubble, he tells the Washington Post. There is still too much room to grow, he says.The Washington Post: Arthur Kroeber, a Beijing-based analyst andRead More →

Image via Wikipedia Chinese are getting wealthier and fatter, visitors of the country can see. Retail analyst Paul French just finished a major report on “Fat China” and tells Shanghai Urbanatomy about his study into Chinese obesity. Famine has definitely become a feature in the country’s history. “In the West, obesity hasRead More →

Large companies are only spending a fraction of their marketing budget on digital initiatives, while most of the Chinese consumers can be found behind their computer screen or on their mobile, says Shaun Rein in an article describing three major consumer trends for Forbes. “Through the first nine months of 2009,Read More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Should China revaluate its currency or not? No, says business analyst Shaun Rein in a publication of the International Institute for Trade in India. American business would be better off without at this stage with a firmer Renminbi: Shaun Rein, founder and managing director ofRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Bubbles in real estate and otherwise could have a negative effect on China’s economic development and inflation could become a serious problem in 2010, warns economic analyst Arthurs Kroeber in Citiwire from the UK: ‘At this stage, although Beijing denies it, inflation could becomeRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Fortunately saved for history is Kaiser Kuo’s great speech in November at TedxHonolulu on Chinese-US relations and the big disconnect between the rednecks and the red guards on the internet, the big disconnect between American and Chinese relationships.He asks his mainly American audience forRead More →