While this interview does not take account of the massive explosion of labor militancy in China that has occurred during the past few weeks,
it does nevertheless provide some significant insights for any entrepreneurs who ARE interested in the in-many-ways-irresistible Chinese market.
The Chinese market is as vast as it is complex, warns James McGregor of APCO Worldwide,
in this International Herald Tribune interview that appeared in the New York Times.
The movie has ancient Greek warriors, pirates, underwater kingdoms, a villain called the Demon Mage and mermaids that kill men during sex.
There is a sultry Bond girl, too, playing the mermaid queen.
Most of the actors are American, and the cameras use 3-D technology.
But the movie, “Empires of the Deep,” is not another fantasy dreamed up by Hollywood. It is being conceived and shot here on the world’s largest studio set, north of Beijing.
While it may seem only tangentially related to the usual concerns of EconomyWatch.com, the debate over whether Yao Ming’s US-born daughter should receive American or Chinese citizenship
opens an interesting window into the current state of discourse in China about a number of critical political economic topics.
A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine,
surpassing European and Japanese systems and underscoring China’s aggressive commitment to science and technology.
The new leader of the restive region of Xinjiang in western China has announced a series of economic measures to bolster confidence in the regional government,
which was widely criticized by citizens after deadly ethnic rioting there last summer.
BARGAINING POWER GROWS FOR STRIKING CHINESE WORKERS …
China’s wage contagion continues to spread, the New York Times reported in a major article today.
Facebook gets blocked, and you can’t open a broadsheet without tripping over an in-depth report.
But China seems to be in the middle of series of dramatic unblockings, and no one is saying a word!
In the past week, a large number of foreign pornography sites, as well as some Chinese ones, have become accessible from China without a VPN.
And according to Michael Anti, it’s not just porn sites anymore.
China’s inflation accelerated in April, triggering fears of overheating and a possible credit clampdown by Beijing that might slow the country’s economic recovery.
April consumer prices rose 2.8 percent from a year earlier, below Beijing’s full-year target of 3 percent but up 0.4 percentage points from March, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
The pain of the European debt crisis is spreading as the plummeting euro makes Chinese companies less competitive in Europe, their largest market, and complicates any move to break the Chinese currency’s peg to the dollar.
The pain of the European debt crisis is spreading as the plummeting euro makes Chinese companies less competitive in Europe, their largest market, and complicates any move to break the Chinese currency’s peg to the dollar.
