All Roads Lead to China:

Following up on the post I wrote earlier in the week about whether or not China was getting too competitive or expensive for foreign firms in China, I thought it would be appropriate to also address another topic of conversation that I have been having a lot lately.  Things are getting expensive, and that rising [...]

6 years while working on my first consumer research projects, I was speaking with the head of development for one of China’s largest beverage companies, and he loudly proclaimed that to win China, you had to win China’s mass markets. Markets that at that time were largely out of reach of the average Western firm, [...]

If there is one thing I have learned through my experiences in interviewing candidates, it is to do whatever you can to try and understand what will be their motivating factor. Are they only looking to get a couple years of experience, if you are lucky, before they apply to grad school? Are they still [...]

Going into the weekend, Zhang Xiaoqiang (NDRC Vice Chairman) made an announcement at the Boao forum that leaves little doubt that a series of new regulations are on the way. Regulations that are going to discourage resource intensive and environmentally degrading industries, while supporting those that are going to help China strike a balance between [...]

so, it goes without saying that when the Treasury Secretary diverts his plan to land in another country, a country who was looking at being called out as a “currency manipulator”, it is going to peak the interest of many. And it has.  Wall Street Journal was first on the scene with their piece Geithner [...]