China - Silk Road International (Page 7)

Sign in Subscribe

China

A collection of 213 posts

Then and Now, a China Watcher’s Tale, John Pomfret.

These are my notes from a speech by John Pomfret today. I got just a moment afterwards to talk...so many more questions that I wanted to ask. It was a nice talk but I wanted more on his book and more on his personal experiences in China. I tried

Cold War 2.0

I meet with one of the speech writers for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on Saturday. We had a nice lunch and good discussion about China. One of the things that we both shared in common was the idea that China, at least militarily, is not really a threat. Yet. He

Answers You Don't Really Want

“You know you don’t want the answers, so why do you keep asking the questions?” That was the question that I was asked last week. These are some of the questions that I was asking: 1. Why did you sign the contract if you didn’t agree with it

Working with China, Tim Stratford's Ideas/Experience (and some of my own thoughts too)

At the request of the Office of the President, I work with a local university in Utah as they implement a new Chinese program. As part of that, I had the opportunity to listen to and then chat with Tim Stratford for a few minutes this week as he spoke

Illegal vs. Unavailable

Skype is now technically illegal in China. Read here for more details. But that, like just about everything else from religion to prostitution that is also technically illegal in China, doesn’t mean that it’s not still available. The two lines from the article that can be applies to

SRI: Live at the Kempinski Nanshan!

Tomorrow in Shenzhen, I'll be the Keynote speaker for the Chief Executive China annual forum: New Export Strategies, sponsored by PayPal. The audience is expected to be 300-400 major suppliers from all over China and will be held in the afternoon at the Kempinski hotel in the

Leverage, if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you do have.

Two great articles on the Chinese Economy. 1. NYT 2. Blog Two new clients came to SRI this week requesting help with basically the same problem. First was a company that had contracted out for some custom manufacturing of a stitched bag. They had done a bit of due diligence

Living in China

This is the third posting from SRI's current Intern, Eric Luker, from BYU's Kennedy Center for International Studies.Living in ChinaHaving been here in china for several months, I now feel that I am getting used to some of the cultural differences that make living in

"This Project Is More Difficult Than We Originally Thought..."

One of the most frustrating things that I hear on a regular basis from suppliers in China is some version of this: “This project is really difficult.” I agree. Most things of value in life are. What’s the point behind the words, though is the real issue? It’s

Some times nothing is better than something.

Sometimes getting something is just not better than getting nothing. For example, 60% of your order on time and the rest weeks later not only isn’t helpful if you have to deliver 80-90% on-time to a single distributor, it can be downright disastrous for your future business.