At least there are still some buyers out there. I notice that Taiwan is sending a trade mission to the Middle East in early May. (Yes, Asia’s exports to the Middle East are one of the few things still growing). A not small delegation of 62 Taiwanese companies will be visiting Jeddah, Riyadh, and Tehran. [...]
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Singapore’s Lesson For Dubai
A lot has been written on Dubai in the past few months. Some are fans. Others are critics. But few offer an idea of what the city might look like in a decade from now. I was in Singapore last week and was struck by the amount of construction taking place. The number of cranes [...]
East v. West
Song Hongbing believes the West is using its currency policy to prevent the East’s rise. His best-selling Chinese-language book, “Currency Wars”, is being read by senior officials across China. They are dipping into such chapters as “Financial Nuclear Bomb: Target Tokyo” and reading how the Plaza Accords, signed in 1985 between Japan and four Western [...]
Your potential in-laws are also looking east as a result of the financial crisis
I’m not a big fan of using just economic data to explain the rise of the East. So, I was pleased to find these two articles today on marriage. It seems brides, not just investors, are also turning away from the west and looking east. First, is a survey by a Chinese matchmaking website (The [...]
Hong Kong’s “Little Riyadh”
I was chatting with an Egyptian friend last week, a twenty-year resident of Hong Kong, and was struck by a remark she made: “I had lunch at the Shangri-La hotel last weekend, and the waiter showed me which dishes had pork and which dishes didn’t. It’s the first time that’s happened in twenty-years”. The story [...]
What’s Syria up to in China’s central provinces of Hubei and Hunan?
Syria has strong links with a number of China’s coastal cities. But the central provinces? I noticed an article last week advertising a Syrian Film Festival in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Now, Wuhan isn’t small―it has a population of 7 million. But it’s still almost a 2-flight from Beijing and an odd choice for [...]
“China cheat sheet helps investors survive”, Bloomberg, September 1, 2010
“No more silver bullets for Beijing”, Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2010
“China’s historic return to the Gulf”, Foreign Policy, April 2, 2010
