All Roads Lead to China:

An interesting clip for the times. Wong, a young professional who used to feel comfortable spending his monthly earnings on taxis and date nights, has set up a club of 100,000 followers who are looking for ways to save money as well. Some may think that luxury sales are the story, but given China has [...]

Following the rather quickly written post Why Layoffs in the US are a Bad Thing for China where I mentioned highlighted that these closures were likely to impact China’s real economy I thought it would be a good idea to spend a little more time looking at the real impacts to China’s economy. There have [...]

The Xinhua news release Chinese festive spending remains robust, retail sales up 13.8% would seem to provide a beacon of hope for those looking for some light, but not so fast. Initially alerted to the article on twitter (h/t @niubi – see recent Danwei interview of Bill Bishop here), the following chat between myself and [...]

With firms spending 80-100 M USD to be sponsors of the Olympic Games, there are going to be questions. What I have found interesting through my discussions around this topic, and through reading the perspective of others, is that it is all in the matter of context.  Whether firms were trying to use this as [...]

Over the life of All Roads, I have written a few posts about the development of Nanjing Road, and it is time for another edition. to be honest, this is a post I have struggled with as I have been on a retail project for 6 months.. have lots to say about Shanghai’s development, but [...]