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Picking a Product

November 19, 2020 By Lucy Black

One of the secrets behind China as the “Factory of the World” is the mass specialization of towns on the production of single items. Many Chinese towns are dedicated to producing a single type of product. What are the prospects for the specialty town approach? It is July, it’s a hot and humid 35°C outside […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy, Manufacturing Tagged With: Specialty Towns in China

Managing the Differences

October 21, 2020 By Zhou Li

The relationship between China and the US has been deteriorating further in the past months with escalated confrontational rhetoric and actions—some of them military—by both sides. While hopes for the world’s two largest economies to work together amicably are fading for the foreseeable future, the two need to find a way to live together for the good of everyone on the planet.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy, International Trade, Policy and Law

Out of Office

October 21, 2020 By Claire Hacker

China’s commercial property market has been a huge winner over the past three decades, but have the virus, a slowing economy and changes in work culture created a turning point?

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy, Real Estate Tagged With: COVID-19, Office

Trip Delayed

October 20, 2020 By Crystal Reid

The world’s tourism industry has become addicted to big-spending Chinese travellers, but events seem to be conspiring to disrupt the trend, at least temporarily.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Consumers, Economy, Globalization, Tourism Tagged With: Chinese tourism, COVID-19

Misaligned Expectations

October 20, 2020 By Mable-Ann Chang

Jörg Wuttke, President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, discusses how European companies are faring.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Conversations, Economy, Globalization, Joint Ventures, Multinationals in China, Q&A Tagged With: China-EU relations

Hopes, Fears and Decoupling

July 20, 2020 By Manting Chen

Craig Allen, President of the US-China Business Council, looks at the impact on businesses of deteriorating relations between the world’s two largest economies.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy, International Trade, Q&A Tagged With: US China Relationship

CKGSB Commentary: The Challenge Not of the Decade, but the Century

June 18, 2020 By Zhou Li

The challenge that the world now faces is the result of the confluence of many disparate issues. To meet it will require global wisdom and collective actions by us all, starting now.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy Tagged With: CKGSB Commentary

What Happened to the Sharing Economy in China?

June 17, 2020 By Matthew Fulco

A steep economic slowdown is exacerbating the problems for once-golden startups in the sharing economy, from those offering shared office space to shared umbrellas   In China’s sharing economy, it is no longer possible to just share and share alike. The concepts encompassed by the phrase “sharing economy” inspired a huge injection of investment funds […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Consumers, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Technology Tagged With: Sharing Economy

Freshly Brewed or Overly Roasted?

December 1, 2019 By Mark Andrews

Chinese startup Luckin Coffee is expanding at a breakneck pace. How will Starbucks and other coffee players respond? Starbucks had coffee lovers in China’s main cities wrapped up until Luckin arrived, but is the market big enough and growing fast enough for both and more coffee vendors?

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Consumers, Economy, Management, Marketing Tagged With: China's Beverage Industry, Coffee War

Are the US and China Decoupling?

November 20, 2019 By Mable-Ann Chang

Given their ongoing differences, what will the future of China-US relations look like? After more than 40 years of growing ties, the economies of China and the US are now deeply intertwined, and decoupling to any degree would mean a disentangling of enormous complexity.

Filed Under: All Articles, China, Economy, Globalization, Innovation, International Trade Tagged With: Decoupling, Trade War, US-China Relations

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