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Unicorn Factory: Interview with GGV Capital’s Hans Tung

January 29, 2019 By Dominic Morgan

Hans Tung knows how to spot a unicorn. During his career, he has invested in 11 startups that have gone on to attain billion-dollar valuations, including Airbnb, Bytedance, Slack, Wish and Xiaomi. Tung is also one of the few venture capitalists that feels equally at home on both sides of the Pacific. A native of Taiwan, he moved to California aged 13 and began his career in Silicon Valley, before becoming one of the first VCs at a US firm to move to China full-time in 2005. Since moving back to the US in 2013, he has continued to invest in both markets.

Filed Under: C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Innovation Tagged With: Start-up, VC, Venture Capital

Gavekal Analyst Tom Miller: Premature to Say Belt and Road Initiative is Failing

January 17, 2019 By Dominic Morgan

Pronouncements that the Belt and Road Initiative is failing are premature, argues Tom Miller, author of China’s Asian Dream and Senior Asia Analyst at Gavekal Research. He is well-versed in the problems facing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and predicted many of them. In his 2017 book China’s Asian Dream, he warned that China’s preference for cultivating close relationships with individual leaders could be a long-term risk for BRI. Eighteen months on, this looks prescient. New governments have won power in Malaysia, Pakistan and the Maldives, and renegotiating deals signed by their predecessors are high on the agendas.

Filed Under: Belt and Road Initiative, China, Conversations, Opinion

In the Express Lane: Interview with President of FedEx China Eddy Chan

December 13, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

Economic changes taking place in China are rippling across the world, causing rapid upheaval in global supply chains. Manufacturers are moving to lower-wage economies, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is creating a new web of trade flows and the rise of cross-border e-commerce is accelerating demand for goods from across the world. And then, of course, there is a possible global trade war to factor into the equation. Dealing with all this uncertainty requires ice-cool pragmatism, as FedEx’s China head, Eddy Chan, has learned.

Filed Under: C-Suite Interview, Conversations, Digital Economy, Logistics

Kishore Mahbubani: the West Needs to Rethink its Strategic Goals for Asia

December 5, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

Few thinkers can speak about global governance with as much authority as Kishore Mahbubani. A former President of the United Nations Security Council, Permanent Secretary of Singapore’s Foreign Ministry and Dean of the renowned Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, he has been named “the muse of the Asian century”. In his latest book, due next year, Mahbubani plans to tackle the rising tensions between the US and China. As he explains, the US should embrace a more minimalist and strategic approach to foreign policy to maximize its interests in an era of Asian dominance.

Filed Under: China, Conversations, Economy, International Trade, The Thinker Interview Tagged With: China-US, International Trade

Sean Ellis on Growth Hacking: Focus on a number related to your value to customers

November 7, 2018 By Liu Sha

What is the most important thing for a startup? Growing your business by focusing on the value to the customer is the answer given by Sean Ellis, founder and CEO of GrowthHackers, a service that helps 200,000 members with their growth strategy. According to Ellis, “growth hacking” is more than a buzzword in Silicon Valley—it’s a marketing strategy with actionable methods that prioritize business growth.

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Marketing, Strategy Tagged With: Growth hacking, Startups

China’s Third Revolution: Xi is Transforming the Middle Kingdom

September 5, 2018 By Dominic Morgan

The era of Deng Xiaoping is over in China. We are now living in a new historical epoch: the era of Xi Jinping. That is the message of The Third Revolution, the new book by renowned China scholar Dr. Elizabeth Economy. This view is far from controversial within China; in fact, it is official party doctrine. But the fact that an academic of Dr. Economy’s standing is calling time on Dengism is significant. Over her career, she has proven a remarkably clear-sighted forecaster of where China is heading. In this interview, she explains why China analysts need to develop a new understanding of China’s development trajectory for the Xi era.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Policy and Law

Who Wins American Trade Wars?

August 29, 2018 By Bennett Voyles

“Trade wars are easy to win,” says US President Donald Trump. US-UK trade historian Marc-William Palen disagrees. In this interview, Palen, author of The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896, and senior lecturer in history at the University of Exeter (UK), argues that US politicians’ pursuit of trade wars in the 19th and 20th centuries yielded mostly short-term political gains for themselves and high, long-term economic and strategic costs to their country.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Globalization, International Trade

Brexit and China, a Discussion with Leslie Young

July 6, 2018 By Liu Sha and Yan Ran

China played a surprisingly prominent role in debates surrounding the UK’s 2016 referendum on leaving the EU. For leading “Leavers”, Brexit was a chance for Britain to free itself from a stifling Brussels bureaucracy and build stronger trade relations with upcoming powers like China. But those expecting a blossoming in China-UK relations after Brexit might be disappointed, says Leslie Young, Professor of Economics at CKGSB. Professor Young, who received a doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in 1971, at the age of 20, and who is now a recognized authority in international economics, explains how Chinese business is likely to be affected by Brexit.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Globalization, International Trade Tagged With: Brexit, Sino-US, UK-China, UK-China Trade

Business is Business: Yuval Ben-Sadeh, Chairman of the Israel Chamber of Commerce in China

June 27, 2018 By Alex Wilson

Yuval Ben-Sadeh keeps things simple. For the Chairman of the Israel Chamber of Commerce in China (IsCham), business is business, rules are rules and everything else is just talk. Why waste time arguing about Chinese policy toward foreign businesses when you could be spending that time working out how you’re going to adapt to it?

Filed Under: All Articles, Conversations, Winning in China Tagged With: business, Investment, Isearl

How China’s Menswear Brand HLA Became so Successful

June 6, 2018 By Mei Xinlei

Over the past five years, the business model of China’s clothing industry has been unraveling. For decades, China’s vast apparel industry competed mainly on price. But with labor, land and raw materials costs rising, environmental regulations tightening and competition becoming ever fiercer, even many of China’s best-known brands have struggled. There has been one exception: HLA. The Jiangsu Province-based menswear label has grown stronger even as competitors shuttered hundreds of outlets. In this interview, Li Lode, Professor of Operations Management at CKGSB and Professor Emeritus at Yale University, explains how HLA’s success has been made possible by smart strategic decisions.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Chinese Economy, Consumers, Conversations, ExpertSpeak, Retail

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