Archive for February, 2009
Buying American Real Estate is SouFun
Friday, February 27, 2009 9:13 3 CommentsA quick follow up to a post earlier this month All Aboard! China’s Real Estate Tour Groups are Now In Full Steam, where I highlighted the recent announcement that Soufun would be offering the first (of what is sure to be many) house hunting trips to the United States (and I am sure the EU [...]
Weekly Wrapup: Bank Irregularites, West to Blame for China’s CO2, Pink Slips, and 35% of Grads Employed
Friday, February 27, 2009 7:43 1 CommentWith so much going on in China, and only a limited amount of bandwidth, I have created this weekly post to highlight articles that I feel are (1) important, (2) relevant, and (3) interesting. This week there are 4 articles that I have chosen to highlight as each are quite interesting, they are all relevant, [...]
Support American Companies. Buy Made In China
Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:28 7 CommentsOver the course of the last few weeks, I have been trying to construct a coherent article related to the “buy American” clause in the stimulus package, and I have come to essentially one conclusions: It is essentially an economically racist policy that will American brands who manufacture overseas … and China will actually, ironically, [...]
China Logistics News Wrapup: February 25, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:16 No CommentsChina to add logistics to industry plan ICBC increase in loans especially for logistics China nears deflation trap as rail freight collapses More after the break
Shanghai Metro Map 2020… Coool.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:07 9 CommentsFor those of you who are interested in maps, love metro systems, and want to see something cool, then click on the map above. It is a map ( I have seen others that claim to be “the map” and this one has Universal Studios on it) of what Shanghai’s metro system will look like [...]
Clinton in China. Signs Of Change Are Everywhere
Monday, February 23, 2009 0:47 No CommentsOne of the most interesting classes for me at Thunderbird was IPE (International Political Economy), and one of the subject that I was most interested in was how the role of the state to develop a foreign policy was changing as a result of globalization and the power of firms in a domestic market to [...]
Was China’s Real RMB Playbook Exposed
Sunday, February 22, 2009 23:44 4 CommentsThere are few policy issues more consistent between the United States and China than the valuation of the RMB. It has been the subject of debate within the US congress, and it is clearly an issue that the new administration is concerned with. In fact it was only a couple of weeks ago that Treasury [...]
Quick Thoughts on Davos
Friday, February 20, 2009 1:10 No CommentsA couple weeks back, good friend Calvin Chin of Qifang sat down to discuss some of his thoughts following the WEF in Davos. Being the first firm in China to win the WEF Young Technology Pioneer award, Calvin’s thoughts on how China was fitting into conversations, and the role of Chiense going forward on the [...]




