Gao Fei
Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.
Chinese Massage Parlour Hostages Freed – Farhan Bokhari
An update on the seven Chinese citizens kidnapped from a massage parlor in Islamabad, from Financial Times: Hardline Pakistani Islamists at the weekend released six Chinese female hostages and one man, ending a 17-hour crisis that highlighted a fresh challenge to the regime of pro-US military ruler General Pervez Musharraf. The kidnappings on Friday night […]
Read MoreDanone Under Pressure to Quit China Venture – Rowan Callick
A story explaining the relationship between Wahaha and Danone- and their eventual falling-out due to “extra-marital affairs”- as a case study for business schools. From The Australian: The first big question facing businesses that want to operate in China is whether they are brave enough or deep-pocketed enough to go it alone, or whether they […]
Read MoreAnalysts Warn China Vulnerable to a Japan-style Debt Meltdown – Elaine Kurtenbach
Analysts point out the similarities in China’s bull market to Japan’s situation that led to a financial crisis in 1990. One economist compares China to a “giant elephant riding a bicycle – it has to maintain a fast speed, otherwise it will crash.” From AP via insidebayarea.com: When financial crisis devastated its Asian neighbors a […]
Read More‘China Road’ by Rob Gifford – Karl Taro Greenfeld
Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of China Syndrome, reviews Rob Gifford‘s China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power for the Los Angeles Times: Almost every reporter who has covered China has weighed doing the Big Journey-through-China-story, starting in the far west or extreme south and making one’s way by various squalid means […]
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