11/22/2011 - Roy Graff has decades of experience in international travel marketing, especially related to China, and with particularly deep strength in online distribution. Fresh from WTM, the travel industry's he updates us on Chinese outbound travel and Chinese international tourists. Read More...

11/7/2011 - Technical designer Andrea Salazar left New York for Shanghai in 2005, after graduating from FIT's International Trade and Marketing program. From the perspective of her own atelier, and working for Anabel Lee and Ports 1961, she has seen both customers and designers in China's fashion capital evolve towards a truly global outlook. 
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10/14/2011 - The best known bond rating services are USA-based: Moody's, Standard & Poor's, Fitch. China has its own: Dagong Global Credit, which many of us first heard of when they lowered the rating for US Treasuries in November 2010. To learn more about Dagong - how it started and how this major non-US credit agency, we interviewed Michael Nocera, Dagong's Chief Representative in North America.
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2/16/2011 - Wendy Wu worked with American Express in China for many years before she started Wendy Wu’s China, based in Australia. Competing with China’s state-owned travel companies, Wendy Wu created a China travel experience more responsive to the interests of westerners. After success in Australia, then the UK, Wendy Wu has moved to New York to expand to the USA market for China travel. Read More...

2/14/2011 - The average Chinese traveler has changed. No longer do busloads of Chinese tourist get off the bus to snap as many pictures as possible before rushing off to see the next attraction. Now many Chinese tourists are more affluent and travel more leisurely, taking their time to really explore and learn about an area. And please, let them enjoy some quality western food - they can get plenty of bad Chinese food in China! Read More...

2/11/2011 - Last week, Bloomberg assembled America’s A-list of China policy analysts, thinkers and investment strategists, gathered them into a room and asked them to entertain the New York investment community in the audience by talking about their weather vanes. As a standard opener, every speaker was asked to guess China’s GDP for 2011 (and most answers hovered between 5 to 6%). Read More...

10/30/2010 - David Wolf has been based in Beijing for twenty years, and founded a consulting practice, Wolf Group Asia, in 2005.  He has seen a very noticeable shift in China's manufacturing strategy.  Once known as the "world's manufacturing floor," China will soon be seen as leading the services sector.  Since opening to the west in the 1980s, the Chinese have been studying and learning from multinational organizations, and services are no exceptions. Read More...

7/7/2010 - Fireworks in New York on July 4? Pretty enough. But I want more noise, more flash, bigger crowds, and an obvious historical context. Thanks to China, I’ve gotten used to having my symbolic moments more orchestrated. Something more heavy-handed, over the top, and obvious. Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics or the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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6/5/2010 - Alex Fong is the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, a driving force in the structure and focus on Hong Kong's economy for the past 150 years. As Hong Kong integrates more deeply into an ever-more global China, we wanted to ask Alex, who was previously in charge of security during Hong Kong's handover to the PRC, how the economic, financial, and cultural aspects of the integration are proceeding Read More...

6/4/2010 - Alex Fong is the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, a driving force in the structure and focus on Hong Kong's economy for the past 150 years. As Hong Kong integrates more deeply into an ever-more global China, we wanted to ask Alex, who was previously in charge of security during Hong Kong's handover to the PRC, how the economic, financial, and cultural aspects of the integration are proceeding. Read More...