All Roads Lead to China:

Growing up in St Louis Missouri offered a life very different than that I have found in Shanghai.  Very. Yet, it is a city that shares a lot in common with some of the more interesting, and successful cities, I have found in China. Located at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, St. [...]

A few weeks back UBS’s ASEAN regional economist Ed Teather put out the piece of research Six questions on ASEAN’s links with China (email me for a copy) looking at trade, investment and policy links between ASEAN and China by working to answer the following the questions: Which countries in ASEAN have the highest export [...]

Following up from my recent posts A Few Rules for Succeeding in China and  What is China’s Obligation to Make Firms Feel Comfortable?, and the fact that Google’s decision to finally pull the trigger has driven so many to question why Google did it.. and whether or not it was the right move…I felt the [...]

A lot of discussion these days about how China is clamping down on foreign firms, restricting markets, and acting downright unappreciative. Perhaps it is a simple case of miss communication, and China just playing a bit hard to get, or perhaps the relationship has hit that 15 year wall where it needs a trip to [...]

One of the more common “China” questions asked over the last years has been “When would China begin exporting brands?”. There have of course been the anecdotal exceptions like Haier and TsingTao that people hold up as successful cases, and there was some talk that Chinese firms would leverage their cash positions to scoop up [...]