China Speakers Bureau

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 →

Image by Fantake via Flickr A veteran of the US-China business, Douglas Maclellan, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Maclellan has a distinguished career that roots back into the Reagan era. Douglas Maclellan has extensive experience in telecom, pharmaceuticals and other industry. Currently he also is Chairman & CEO atRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr The world might have feared China was following Russian style of business when it arrested Rio Tinto executives on state-security charges in Shanghai on July 5, writes Arthur Kroeber today in the Financial Times. By Russia, we mean a country in which ordinary commercialRead 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 →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr China might be the second-largest consumer market in the world within five years, consumer researcher Shaun Rein tells in this interview with CBS. “Top brands need to look into the needs of consumers,”, explain Rein, not only because they have hugely different tastes fromRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr Arthur Kroeber explains in the Financial Times why China did not use a magic trick to keep on growing, but 34 percent of extra credit: The fact becomes even less remarkable when we recognise that nominal GDP (the appropriate comparator for nominal credit growth)Read More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Kaiser Kuo, one of the top-speakers at the China Speakers Bureau, just made another benchmark. Not only is he having his own entry in Wikipedia, today he was also mentioned in the prestigious magazine Foreign Policy as one of the world’s top 100 twitterati.TwitterRead More →

Wu Yi, a powerful woman via Wikipedia The West has not yet a clue about the importance of women in China, both in society and as powerful consumers pushing the economy into the direction of double-digit growth, says Shaun Rein of the Shanghai-based China Market Research Group in Forbes. WomenRead More →

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Author Zhang Lijia often describes the growing freedom in China in a rather positive way, while Western media regularly take a more critical approach, the reporter of the Dutch website OneWorld.com asked her during a recent visit to Amsterdam. (Here in a translation fromRead More →

Howard French by Fantake via Flickr Former China correspondent for the New York Times Howard French notes in his former paper the way how the US deal with the racial riots in 1967 Denver, and draws some lines to the racial riots in China’s Xinjiang earlier this year. The so-calledRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein explains, in the tracks of a recent kidnap case of an American business man by his disgruntled partners, that business in China is not so much different from the US. Although, the lack of a good-working legal systems sometimes makes business partners toRead More →

Image by Dharbigt Mærsk via Flickr Just before we had into August, we finished our China Speakers Bureau Newsletter for July, also available here. Today with a focus on intercultural dilemma’s when looking for a speaker and some highlights from our speakers over the past months. Very advisable: Victor ShihRead More →