Tag: Views On China
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Views on China | Blame the trade war for China’s luxury swoop
China just dealt a blow to the global luxury goods industry. You can blame the trade war for that. The crackdown on the daigou trade — in which ... -
Views on China | Freedom has more than one meaning in today’s China
The bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping at the Shenzhen Museum is a little larger than life. But unlike the giant, striding Deng who towers over the ... -
Views on China | Why China doesn’t care about privacy (but should)
For a few days last week, China appeared to have its own, slow-motion Wikileaks. Via Twitter, someone using the handle @shenfenzheng leaked personal information – such ... -
Views on China | Beauty obsession drives China selfie app’s billions valuation
China’s love affair with physical beauty is helping to fuel a selfie-editing app’s valuation of USD3 billion. Meitu Inc. is shooting for at least that much ... -
Views on China | How bad is China’s debt problem, really?
For months now, China’s regulators have been warning about the dangers of rapidly expanding credit and the need to deleverage. With new plans to clean up ... -
Views on China | Jack Ma closes in on China’s most precious commodity
Of the dozens of investments that Alibaba has made over the past few years, purchasing a stake in China’s Caixin Media could be the smartest of ... -
Views on China | China’s credit conundrum
China has two very good reasons to slow the gusher of cheap money that continues to flood its economy. The first, obviously, is to prevent the ... -
Views on China | The Conference Board’s new China GDP figures suggest that ‘hard landing’ happened already
You’d be forgiven for missing this footnote from the Conference Board’s latest economic outlook: “This year’s Global Economic Outlook uses an alternate series of GDP estimates ... -
Views on China | Somebody forgot to tell Mercedes to worry about China
If China’s financial woes spell doom for Germany’s automakers, somebody forgot to tell Daimler. Its Mercedes-Benz brand recorded a 31 per cent jump in China sales in December, according ... -
Views on China | China isn’t headed for a financial crisis
Ever since the 2008 global financial crisis, pundits have tried to guess which country could set off the next implosion. Last week, China seemed to put ... -
Views on China | Where China goes from here
For years, China’s leaders have wanted the world to acknowledge their economy’s leading role in the global system. This week they got their wish. Sadly, the ... -
Views on China | Chinese Consumers Prefer Chinese Brands
Akio Toyoda has China on his mind. On Tuesday, the same day he announced record earnings, the Toyota Motors president warned of a sharp slowdown in the world’s ... -
Views On China | China needs a grown-up Central Bank
Zhou Xiaochuan is governor of the People’s Bank of China. But among some financial types, he’s earning another, less enviable title: the killer of weekends. On May ...
