All Roads Lead to China – Business News, Analysis, and Insights from China:

While thumbing through the recent AT Kearney Report (review coming in a few days), I came across the above chart and knew it required its own post given all the chatter about China’s role in the recovery. The quadrant titles – Return of PAX America, New Goldilocks, Great Depression II, and China Saves Capitalism – [...]

While doing a bit of research for some of last weeks posts, I came across the article Twelve Major Brands That Will Disappear.  An article that caught my interest for many reasons, but kept my attention when I considered the fact that many of the firms were sourcing from China, and that their closures could spell [...]

One of the interesting, and perhaps most debatable, aspects watching the “Road to Recovery” is the fact that so much can be made from a few statistical measures that are typically offered up without much context. It is a situation that lead me to write a piece called Are Trade Statistics the Best Measure for [...]

While I typically dedicate space for more socially focused pieces at Crossroads, this piece deserves special attention as quite often it is very easy to forget that many of those who built the roads, the buildings, and sweep the road of commerce are not the ones benefiting from it. Often living on the geographic edges [...]

1. Ge Honglin met IBM’s Great China President Zhou Weikun and his party IBM reintegrated the 9 provinces and 1 city in Southwest and Northwest regions, and put forward the “Grand West Zone” strategic layout, making Chengdu its west zone headquarters. On April 15th, while meeting with Ge Honglin, vice secretary of CPC Chengdu Municipal [...]

For those looking for good news on China’s property market, I am not sure if the recent JLL Property Market Monitor will be the document you were hoping for, but Steven McCrord’s Page 1 was sobering for me: Total prime retail stock in 21 major Chinese cities will grow at a CAGR of 20.2% through [...]