All Roads Lead to China:

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 [...]