Archive for the ‘China Development Trends’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
The meltdown of the economy in the United States has been reflecting itself here in China in odd sorts of ways. The downward pressure on the value of the dollar; the housing loan crisis, even who will be the next President of the United States, has been compounded by rising ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai has released its annual Whitepaper, which provides policy makers in China and the United States perspectives, experience and recommendations for improving the regulatory and investment environment across a variety of industries in China.
Check out the section entitled, "Provincial Investment Environment," which is ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The latest installment of my column "Challenging China" for Eurobiz Magazine came out in the May issue. The article is about dealing with safety issues in China operations. The column starts with this tragic tale and relates others that seem downright surreal:
"A friend building a factory in the deep interior ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A recent visit to the Philippine island of Cebu and a small discovery there set me to thinking about the course China has set itself to become a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) powerhouse. I had gone on a company trip for team building and other activities to the small subtropical ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As the warm winds of summer begin to roll in I heat the air a bit more through my speaking engagements in May. Here's a round up of where I'll be and what I'll be talking about. If you're around and are a reader of my blog, please come up ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Paul French doesn’t drink coffee. He figures it’s a waste of time. French is author of Carl Crow – A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times and Adventures of an American in Shanghai . “We don’t really drink coffee, do we?” the tall British author continued, “We smell it.” ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I recently received news from the States that a former ESL (English as a Second Language) student of mine, Magdalene Mok, passed away. Natural causes. She must have been in her seventies by then; in her sixties when she was a student of mine in Boston Chinatown. That was in ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
China Briefing posted an article a few days ago on the dramatic drop in export activity in Guangdong Province.
I asked a Dutch friend what his impression of the transition was. I written about conversations with him before: he’s the fellow who hates Dongguan and figures off the top of his ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I mentioned this before in a previous article, but I still crack up when I think of what an Indian friend of mine said to me recently. We were talking about how fast China has been developing its industries when he wise-cracked: "India could do with twenty years of no ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Alibaba, the most famous B2B product-supplier directory in China, is also the tenth most popular search engine in the world, according to Comscore. But B2B hosts know time is running out for their traditional roles as information brokers for China manufacturers. “The Chinese government wants to develop its services industries,” ...
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