Malcolm Riddell was an intelligence case officer, and then an investment banker. Now he runs China Debate, an investor advisory service focused on the country he used to spy on.
Steve Tsang coined the phrase “consultative Leninism” to describe the Chinese political system that took shape in the early 21st Century. But is this still accurate in the age of Xi Jinping, the Chairman of Everything?
How are Chinese consumers dealing with the slowing economy? Are foreign brands finished in China? I talked about these and other topics with Mark Tanner, founder of one of Shanghai’s most successful independent marketing and branding agencies.
One of Time magazine’s “top 100 influential people in the world,” Andrew Sheng is a Malaysian-born banker, financial regulator, and scholar, and one of the most interesting people in the world to talk to.
Niva Yau is a Hong Kong–born scholar who lives in Kyrgyzstan, from where she observes China’s relationships with its western neighbors. She told me all about Beijing’s business in Kabul a year after America pulled out of Afghanistan.
Everybody seems to be talking about war as China ramps up its rhetoric and its live-fire military exercises in the seas and skies around Taiwan. But not so much the Taiwanese. I asked journalist and president of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club William Yang: What is the rest of the world getting wrong?
What to do about China? That’s a question heard almost daily by Jason Young, who heads up New Zealand’s most important center of China studies as the island nation balances between the enormous economic benefits and the real potential for everything to go wrong in its relationship with the Asian giant.
On July 10, hundreds of people gathered on the steps outside the People’s Bank of China building in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in the latest protest over banks that won't honor their customers' deposits. But what exactly were those customers putting their money into? Liqian Ren explains some important details.
The cloak and dagger business isn’t what it used to be, and China’s Type 003 carrier isn’t going to fight any big wars: These are some takeaways from my chat with Sam Rogeveen, a former top spy for America’s staunch southern ally.