Category Archives: Entering the China Market

WSJ Video Embed: China’s Property “Bubble” — Popping?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Richard

We’ve heard these prognostications for many, many years. Ready to pop? Really? I don’t think anyone knows. A June 3, 2011 article: Home prices rose 0.5% in May from April, according to the China Real Estate Index System, which is … Continue reading →

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Avon, Door-to-door Sales and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Richard

I once trained, as consultant for a German conglomerate in China, door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen (and women) in sales techniques: 15 cities over six months, approximately 500 trainees.  So that I might observe their skills, together we knocked on doors … Continue reading →

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China Agritech and the Need for Due Diligence

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Richard

The case made for extensive due diligence. …That led to a $4 million investment in China Agritech Inc. (CAGC), a Beijing-based firm listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and 22 percent owned by Carlyle Group. It was, Glickenhaus said, a … Continue reading →

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The Return of Manufacturing to the US — Has China Had It?

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Richard

Small companies, generally speaking, should not source product in China. Aside from logistical difficulties, they don’t have the volume orders to command signficantly low price points nor even the quality control larger buyers can insist upon (and must fight to … Continue reading →

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China Says to Japan: You Don’t Agree with Us, We Keep the Ball

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Richard

Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan’s detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government has blocked exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided … Continue reading →

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Google, China, Hype and the New York Times

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Richard

Comments like this in the major media never cease to amaze: The implication of that thinking [that the internet is a political space], post-Google, is that companies that want to be major players on the Chinese Web will have to … Continue reading →

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High-Ranking Chinese Minister Warns, “Our Hands are Tied:” Minor Revaluation May Lead to Catastrophic Currency Risk

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Richard

Vice Commerce Minister Zhong Shan: “Water doesn’t boil if it is heated to 99 degree Celsius. But it will boil if it is heated by one more degree,” he said. Likewise, “a further rise in the yuan by a very … Continue reading →

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Google Reported to Plan Closing of Chinese Language Search Engine

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Richard

[The alternate title for this post could very well be "Baidu Executives Celebrate Gift-Horse with New Strategy to Capture Existing Google Customer Base."] WSJ reports Google throwing in the towel — or at least leaking the rumor that it will, … Continue reading →

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It’s the Yuan, Again, and Again, and Again, and…

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Richard

More hollering about the value of the Yuan. This is simply Washington window dressing on the more profound problem to which none of the “best and brightest” supposed to be leading this country seems to care deeply enough about to … Continue reading →

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MI5: PLA and PSB “Gifts” to Businessmen Bugged

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Richard

Commercial espionage among nations should not come as a surprise to anyone involved competitive businesses. I am a proponent of the idea that American intelligence should practice it far more than we already do, which is either so brilliantly executed … Continue reading →

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