This Wall Street Journal article discusses what is a minor phenomenon at present, that of Chinese migrants to urban centers returning home, out of work, to their villages. One or two million jobless is an insignficant number, a police problem, perhaps. But given the many factory closings in south China and the several thousand riots annually, it bears watching..
Would WSJ please put more interesting voices to their videos?
I'm pleased to present Dr. Eileen Wibbeke, author of the textbook, Global Business Leadership, who recently gave a talk to Google executives on international business leadership at Googleplex.
Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn before Congress on the importance of keeping secret the names of the recipients of the American banking bail-out.
Gasp. I don't think I can muster up even a single comment on this one.
The live webcast starts at 7.30 am EST, Thursday, March 12.
Here's the blurb from the Asia Society.
"Known as China’s Web King, Jack Ma is Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, the leading e-commerce company in China and one of the world’s largest online trading platforms. A pioneer in the Chinese Internet industry, Ma is recognized as the man who put China on the Net. Over a decade ago he founded China’s first Internet-based company and has since transformed China’s Internet industry. Ma was named by Fortune Magazine as one of the “25 Most Powerful Businesspeople in Asia” in 2005, “Businessperson of the Year” by BusinessWeek in 2006, and one of the 30 “World’s Best CEOs” by Barron’s in 2008.
Tomorrow morning, Thursday, March 12, Jack Ma will speak at the Asia Society in New York about building Alibaba and will share his insight on technological innovation and development as the driving forces of the global e-commerce industry."
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A clip from the documentary film, Win in China (http://www.wininchinamovie.com):
The first person to send me a bottle (can't be empty) of this brew wins this blog's Annual Champion Reader Award!
Stunning, but, if this is any indication, how many lost vision in China looking at it through sunglasses?
This video of the southern eyewall was shot by James Reynolds in Taipo, courtesy of www.TornadoVideos.net.
Some lovely pictures of Taipei and a top level overview, narrated in a drab voiceover -- why don't they ask me to narrate these?
By the way, if you've any video you'd like a China-focused audience to see, please let me know. Video attracts a substantial number of unique viewers and I'd like to carry more of it.
I've always found it fascinating that the last bastion of traditional Chinese ideas -- as opposed to the militaristic and authoritarian "model" -- has become the most receptive to democratic and cooperative political decision-making.
Why do they call it China's "empty city?"
Does this demonstrate the commonly held belief that Chinese are willing to take the risks Westerners are not?
Notice the safety harness? Apparently the father, leader of the troupe, has high hopes for the girl.
Here's raw video where you can hear very interesting comments (in Chinese) from spectators.
Mingchun Sun, Chief China Economist, Nomura International in Hong Kong here. "There is no way to say there is no bubble..."
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