Business News Round Up--The Best Links of the Last 48 Hours I collect news links to read as I travel back and forth to factories. Here is my edited list of hightlights from Wednesday and Thursday. I thought it was especially good reading so I'm sharing. You're welcome. China stocks continue to drop, and while you can’
Book Reviews Will Hutton’s: The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century—BOOK REVIEW This book, The Writing On the Wall, by Will Hutton, is just great. It’s only flaw is that it’s at least 100 pages too long—and there is a specific 100 pages that could be cut out with nothing lost. Chapters 1-8 are as good as any
Business Much of what you see in China is planned/fake to some degree (updated 30 Sept) Update 30/09/08: others are noticing the contradiction between walking in space and the disasters on the ground in China. Many are saying that the solution is increased accountability within the system.____________I've said more than once that much of what you see here in China is
Business What does the milk powder scandal mean for you, an SME, doing business in China? I was interviewed by Public Radio’s Market Watch segment yesterday and their focus on the general economic conditions (downturn) headed into China got me thinking that there are certainly going to be more rather than less problems in the future. Specifically, Scott Tong asked me, in regards to the
Business Things like this come in 3's Like Junior Soprano claims, “things like this come in 3’s.” Maybe it’s true. For the first time today I saw a Bangkok license plate on a car in China. (I can't upload the photo for some reason, you'll just have to believe me that
Business Yeah! I'm a llama again!* So now that it's all over, what's next? First a couple of comments on the 0lympics and then some application to doing business here. I’ve said for 8 years—this will be the best Olympics ever—and it appears that it was. Was there any
Politics Finally, it's cool to be an American If you've read this blog for any amount of time, you know that I love basketball and the US. (While at the same time choosing to be fat, eat chocolate and live in China. Go figure.) Mixed in with numerous Jazz home games over the years, I saw
Book Reviews The China Fantasy—BOOK REVIEW If you’re not ready to face the reality of China’s future and your involvement in that future, don’t read this book. If you’re comfortable with the idea that China is not “changing” in all the ways that the western democracies would like it too, don’t
Business Is this really news? It's not new! There is a fine between news that caters to the LCD and just a waste of paper. The headlines on this morning’s Drudge Report cross that line. Seriously, how is this news? Is this really cause for “shock and dismay,” Senator Brownback? Has no one heard of the Great
Book Reviews Book Review-What Does China Think, by Mark Leonard I have to say the introduction of this book scared me. Mr. Leonard prefaces his writing by admitting that he knew so little about China that he hoped a trip or two could help him “learn the basics” and then allow him to go home. But maybe the lack of
