By any measure, and allowing for any scepticism about the validity of the numbers, China’s economy is bouncing back fast, ...
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I’m looking forward to hearing from Kristina Koehler-Coluccia of Woodburn Accountants & Advisors talk about "The 10 biggest mistakes companies ...
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Following up on my last two issues on the flow of investment into China (see Free Flow and Investing in China in case you ...
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Following on from Saturday’s issue on the large amounts of money flowing into China and Hong Kong in the last ...
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By all accounts, without gaining much media attention, large amounts of money are flowing into China and Hong Kong right ...
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Assuming you have nothing else to do this weekend, I suggest you download and flick through a new report written ...
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It's hard to believe it now but it's exactly 40 years to the day since Deng Xiaoping travelled south by ...
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Will a Biden victory in the US Presidential Election in November be good or bad for China? That seems to ...
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Last week’s National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday ("Golden Week") in China has been declared a major success with 637 ...
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Many thanks to everyone for all the nice comments and feedback received from last week’s Four Critical Success Factors e-book and a ...
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Alibaba’s annual Investor Day is always a keenly anticipated event for anyone looking for clues as to the direction of ...
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Whilst many countries around the world are starting to count the full cost to their economies of lockdowns, border closures ...
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Success in China was once described to me as “Drinking from a Fire Hose” which is a good analogy to ...
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Over the past week or so, you’ll have noticed that I’ve touched on four critical areas which I believe are ...
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I hope you all got to see the full moon last night, the night when the Chinese believe that the ...
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In my opinion, whilst establishing a brand story, deep niche and financial capacity to support your China market entry strategy are critical to your chances ...
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There’s no point in beating around the bush. If you're going to do business in China, you’re going to need ...
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In addition to a Deep Niche, successful product and services providers in China need to develop a compelling "Brand Story" ...
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As mentioned on Friday, our ACSME live stream event with Michael Harding in Guangzhou was a great success (click here for ...
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At yesterday’s ACSME webinar on-the-ground live stream interview with Michael Harding, direct from Pazhou New Village in Guangzhou, we learnt ...
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It’s widely accepted that in order to position your product appropriately in a crowded, populated and noisy market like China, ...
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When I started helping companies do consumer research in China in the early 2000s, I have to admit it was ...
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McKinsey in China have done a typically good job of highlighting some of the pre-existing consumer trends in China which ...
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Wherever you are in the western world, you’re having your views on China tested and challenged by the constant barrage ...
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I don’t know exactly when I’ll be able to go back to China but I’m pretty sure that, when the ...
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I have recently got to know Ashley Galina Dudarenok, a fearless young Russian entrepreneur who shares my passion for China ...
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It’s been a while since I’ve studied the list of the top 10 countries in the world, as measured by ...
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In recent days, I’ve found myself studying JFK’s actions and reactions over the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis ...
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As a regular reader of China Bites, you’ll know that I have a broad range of views when it comes ...
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In our household, we’ve been looking forward to watching the new Disney movie, Mulan, and saving up to pay Disney’s ...
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When I attended the CKGSB CEO Program in China last year (seems like a decade ago now!), one of the ...
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I enjoyed appearing on the new SME TV show, hosted by my old friend, Angela Vithoulkas, alongside Kevin Zhang of digital ...
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This year of Covid keeps throwing up more and more strange contradictions. With all of us stressing about the Australia-China ...
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Of all the amazing changes that have taken place in China over the past 40 years, the rise of Shenzhen ...
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The rollout of 5G in China is already throwing up some interesting possibilities, including the opportunity for crane and machinery ...
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There seems to be some confusion about the role, scope and purpose of an MOU (or Memorandum of Understanding). I’ve ...
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The words "never under-estimate the Chinese" were ringing in my ears when I read this report from the New York ...
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Following on from yesterday’s China Bites on Mark Tanner’s recent presentation to ACSME members, I would like to pick up on the point ...
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At last week’s ACSME webinar on “Changing Consumer Behaviour in China”, Mark Tanner of China Skinny covered a wide range ...
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I suggest you finish your week by listening to this short extract from last week‘s ABC Saturday Extra program which ...
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I am pleased to have been invited to write articles for "Inside FMCG" magazine on the opportunity for companies in ...
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When I first started writing my daily China Bites nearly two years ago, I wouldn’t have imagined that I would ...
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I’m often being asked whether life in China is returning to normal and, not being able to jump on a ...
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Back in late June at our ACSME monthly webinar with futurist, Craig Rispin, I asked him for his top 3 ...
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As a follow up to Name Games earlier this week, underscoring the importance of auspicious and aspirational brand names in ...
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When I was young, all the toys I played with carried the label “Made in Hong Kong”. It conjured up ...
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On a recent road trip around regional New South Wales, and an overnight stay in the country town of Orange, ...
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When I see a headline saying that a foreign product is "flying off the shelves in China", it certainly gets ...
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You could be forgiven for thinking, after a routine scan of the media headlines and your favourite social media sites, ...
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I spent last Christmas and New Year in Kuala Lumpur (seems like an age ago now!) and was struck by ...
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I acknowledge that I may be the wrong person to comment on this (having not owned a car for several ...
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How would you expect a Great Power and Leader of all Nations to guide the rest of the world through ...
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I enjoy reading Week in China which recently passed its 500th issue and, to showcase the thousands of photos selected ...
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Your ability to do business with China depends on 3 things (in no particular order): The strength of your relationships ...
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America doesn't have a "China Strategy". It has a "China Attitude". That’s one of the problems with a liberal democracy ...
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Setting up a foreign company in China (now known as a Foreign Invested Enterprise "FIE" but previously referred to as ...
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I think it's interesting to note that, after 6 months in the bunker, I have suddenly been booked to speak ...
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In a move that seems likely to create a bonanza for dairy farmers around the world, renowned Chinese doctors and ...
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Many thanks to all China Bites readers who commented on, and added to, my list of compelling reasons for why ...
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Back in the second half of 1989, when Governments all around the world broke off diplomatic relations with China and ...
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During a campaign speech in 1959, JFK was one of the first westerners to say in public: “in the chinese ...
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As the Internet grew and developed in the 1980s, China (being a fraction of the size it is today) saw ...
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Many international analysts, commentators and media outlets are pouring over the latest GDP data from China which appears to have ...
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Over the years, I’ve been delighted to speak and participate at events organised by the Australia China Youth Association, a national ...
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McKinsey’s regular traveler survey has provided interesting insights into the aspirations of Mainland Chinese tourists, especially before the covid crisis ...
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For the past 20 years, if not longer, economists, journalists, commentators and ordinary people like me have been speculating about ...
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In a startling sign of the times, and an early indication of how education and career choices are likely to ...
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The latest number of Covid infections in Mainland China are greatly improved from the last time I looked, which was ...
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Many thanks to a regular reader of China Bites who pointed out an important omission from my list of why SMEs ...
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Having worked in the financial services sector in London, Hong Kong and Sydney, I’ve led many initiatives over the years ...
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If you do nothing else today, watch this short video on the China Internet Report 2020 in which Gary Liu of the South China ...
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The other day I made a list of why SMEs should do business in China. Here it is: China is ...
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With the goal of supporting SMEs in developing their own China strategy and engaging in the China market, we have ...
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Some fascinating insights here from The Fashion Law (TLG) on the attitudes of affluent customers in different countries towards privacy and their ...
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I turned 60 recently and it really is quite amazing to think about the changes that the world has witnessed ...
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Let’s finish the week with a bit of Chinese culture. Week in China celebrated its 500th issue recently saying: "When we were ...
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I’m extremely diffident about commenting on Hong Kong’s new Security Law, with all the negative Western media commentary and protests ...
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When I led my first study tour of Australian Wealth Management professionals to China in 2005, the local funds management ...
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Let’s be clear about this. China is China. Nothing has changed inside China (other than a bit more assertiveness towards ...
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According to Craig Rispin at last week’s ACSME webinar, we are living on the edge of a ‘fourth industrial revolution’, the ...
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When I was a young boy in the late 1960s and interested in space travel, my Mother took me on ...
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In yesterday's Innovation in China webinar with Business Futurist, Craig Rispin, for members and guests of the Australia China SME Association (more about this webinar ...
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Taking a short break from the noise and speculation of today’s global geo-politics, it's interesting to go back in time ...
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I highly recommend this timely, perceptive and intelligent thought leadership piece from my friend and colleague, Dr Poli Tan on ...
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As we move further into the digital age, with the rise of e-commerce and online marketing, there is a tendency ...
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Spare a thought for the young mothers of Shanghai who have to navigate the city’s “anxious, status-conscious middle class attitudes” ...
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I don’t think anyone would disagree that, being a US election year, 2020 was always going to be about getting ...
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China led the world into the start of the Covid 19 crisis, so I guess it's no surprise to find ...
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There are many ways to track China’s rapid economic progress during the last 20 years but one, in particular, will ...
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As a British expatriate living in Hong Kong in the years leading up to the handover in 1997, I have ...
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One of the enduring pillars of global confidence in Hong Kong and its monetary system is the Hong Kong dollar ...
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I am grateful to my friends at China Skinny for alerting me to the latest trend in Chinese consumerism, the ‘Blind Box’, ...
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In my opinion, China’s “Going Out” strategy, which began at the turn of this century and was a significant focus ...
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I’m so pleased to have persuaded my old friend, Craig Rispin, to present at our next ACSME webinar on 24th ...
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After a massive testing blitz, costing nearly 900 million yuan (US$127 million) and involving 10.9 million people being tested over ...
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The recent announcement from Beyond Meat (a Los Angeles-based producer of plant-based meat substitutes, founded in 2009) that they plan ...
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Is China a rich country or a poor country? If you listen to the way some people talk about China ...
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For an indication of how much China’s Air Travel industry has grown in the past 20 years, it's tempting to ...
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The words “Diversification” and “China” are easy to say, and there’s a lot of people all over the world suggesting ...
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If I asked you to name the two online platforms that have experienced global exponential growth during the Covid19 crisis, ...
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Back in the early 1990s and living in Hong Kong, I was a member of a group of British expatriates ...
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Some fairly sobering commentary coming from Beijing this week with the latest headlines saying “China’s economic strategy shift shows Xi ...
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I’m often asked how long it takes me to write my daily China Bites, what inspires me to come up ...
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Slowing things down and seeing things from a macro perspective, my view of western economies is that they: were all ...
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When I was young (in the 1970s) my mother, Jane Thomas, used to say to us that, when she retired, ...
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There’s a tendency to focus only on the US-China relationship these days (now referred to as “the G2”), and forget ...
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What would you do if you posted something sensitive on social media and, in the process, upset one of your ...
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When I lived in Hong Kong in the late 1980s, everyone I knew owned HSBC shares. In those days it ...
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Last Thursday, we held our first national ACSME webinar on the topic of Cultural Intelligence (“CQ”) which attracted a lively ...
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Here’s a nice, gentle and stress-free way to end another exhausting week of lockdown and geo-politics. I came across this ...
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The coffee market in China is really heating up. Who would have thought it would become such a keenly contested ...
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Being a few months ahead of us throughout this Covid period, China is a good source of clues, indicators and ...
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In another sign of life returning to normal in China, and a light at the end of the tunnel for ...
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On top of all of the other social and economic disruption caused by Covid19, it's especially unfortunate that, at the ...
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I’ve been heartened to hear the good news from my friends in Hong Kong about the reducing number of Covid ...
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If there’s one skill we all need to master as we navigate the challenges and opportunities of living in the ...
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Here in Australia, we’ve created a firestorm of public opinion on our relationship with China following a decision by our ...
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The early indications suggest that the May Day long weekend holiday in China has been a reasonable success so far ...
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As we look back over another difficult week of coronavirus lockdown, I’d like to ask you to reflect on the ...
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In my lifetime, there’s been one human achievement which, in my opinion, stands out above all others, and that was ...
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If there’s one thing we really need right now, it's 5G. Just imagine how much better those zoom calls would ...
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It's a tough time to be the leader of a western democracy. Having been elected by being friendly, popular and ...
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All around the world, western political leaders are trying to find the right balance between ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘totalitarianism’ (which is ...
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The inspiration for ‘China Bites’ was Seth Godin’s daily blog on 31/10/18 (incidentally, my daughter’s birthday which seemed like a ...
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I don’t need to tell you that online learning and ‘edtech’ is one industry that is going to benefit greatly ...
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From my old friend, Mandy Zhang, Operations Manager for The Leadership Group in Beijing (in lockdown at home since 29th January 2020): ...
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From the Head of a multi-national reinsurance company in Beijing who has been running her team from home for the ...
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From Renee Hodgkinson in Beijing (in lockdown at home since 28th January 2020): Work - with working from home, a ...
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Over the last week or so I’ve received a mountain of feedback from friends, colleagues, clients and business leaders in ...
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From my old friend, Dr Xisu Wang in Beijing: “In Beijing we are following the Government’s advice and have stayed ...
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In recent days I’ve been thinking about how I can continue to fulfil my promise to China Bites readers to ...
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It’s good to see a major chinese company on the front foot in Australia, touring the country to meet and ...
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One of my favourite quotes from former US President, John F Kennedy is: “the Chinese use two brush strokes to ...
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Successful long term investors know that the time to invest in any asset, stock or market is during a time ...
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Following on from yesterday’s China Bites on the topic of “Diversity”, please forgive me for indulging in this opportunity to ...
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I don't need to tell you that, in 1980, China looked very different to the way it does today. It ...
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If you needed any more evidence of the increasing influence of Asian countries as we head deeper into the Asian ...
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It’s well known that one of China’s biggest challenges is the “ticking demographic time bomb” of its aging population. China ...
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The growth of Starbucks in China, a country known for its obsession with tea (‘all the tea in China’) is ...
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It’s generally accepted that building an economic super-power involves expanding your population and increasing productivity. Jim O’Neill, who invented the ‘BRIC’ acronym back ...
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Whilst its generally known that Chinese tourists are generally seeking different holiday experiences from westerners (who are more likely to ...
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When I grew up in the UK in the 60s and 70s, I remember British people complaining about the spread ...
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Anyone who has had any experience of doing business in China will tell you that, despite common perceptions and assumptions, ...
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If there’s one country that has got itself into a bind in trying to figure out where it sits in ...
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Last week’s BRICS Summit, the 11th since the first BRIC Leaders Summit in 2009, appears to have been different from ...
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It’s always dangerous to make predictions, particularly when it comes to Stock Markets, but I do recall saying back in ...
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Another Singles Day and another record for the Alibaba Group which, according to ZD Net “has amassed a record-high total ...
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As I was hacking my way around the golf course last Sunday, it occurred to me that doing business in ...
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I’ve been saying for a long time that the decision by MSCI (whose indices make up global investment benchmarks adopted ...
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Perhaps you’ve already noticed, and if not I’d like to bring this to your attention, that China is making various ...
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When it comes to smartphones in China, you are probably familiar with brands like Huawei and possibly Oppo (who, amongst ...
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It’s well known that China has a major ageing problem. According to the National Health Commission, at the end of ...
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Perhaps you’ve already noticed, and if not I’d like to bring this to your attention, that China is making various ...
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Perspective is important and, amongst all of the commentary about the role of China in the world today, and what ...
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I don’t think anyone was fooled by the announcement last Friday that the US and China had resolved their differences ...
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I had to search quite hard to find details of last weekend’s meeting between the leaders of the two most ...
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As we hurtle towards the end of another frenetic year, and with the inevitable pre Christmas rush coming up to ...
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In this engaging opinion piece by former SCMP staffer, Tom Holland “Beijing’s Made in China 2025 Plan isn’t dead, it’s ...
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I’m not sure if you know this, and I certainly didn’t but, according to Katie Howe in The Diplomat, “for ...
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Whilst China’s economy is expected to overtake the USA to become the largest economy in the world in 2027 or ...
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The term “oligarch”, defined as “a small group of people having control of a country or organisation” is often used ...
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I’m often asked about China’s “social credit system”, a plan to implement a national ranking system for Chinese citizens and ...
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While our eyes and minds are diverted by the US-China Trade War, President Trump’s twitter feed, conflicts in the Middle ...
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It may come as a surprise to many people, and it did to me the first time, but the Chinese ...
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Of all the billionaires in the world today, it would be hard to find anyone as universally popular and widely ...
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While we’re all focused on the opportunities arising from China's affluent middle class and the ultra rich, it’s pleasing to ...
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