vital news

Miguel Angel Maya Lima lives and works in Beijing as HR director for Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican company.
In our recent Cool Aid podcast, Mr. Maya Lima did an excellent job supporting Mexican and also Bimbo values in the China workplace – that is, valuing the people (employees), which isn’t a commonplace occurrence here yet. [...]
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Michael Pettis knows economics – and more specifically, China economics – very, very well.
He’s the perfect blend of an East meets West economist, as although he’s currently a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, specializing in Chinese financial markets, he worked on Wall Street as far back as 1987. Bear Stearns graces [...]
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By most accounts, China’s economy is verging on serious trouble.
Factory activity is way down, fears abound about the housing market crashing, and GDP forecasts for next year continue to be revised downward.
There is another, much scarier factor that cannot be factored, analyzed or forecast with much accuracy, and yet prove much more destructive than [...]
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You’ve heard of Tales from the Crypt.
Tales from the crib are a lot scarier if you don’t have one yourself in China.
You might have caught a glimpse of some rockstar pads on MTV Cribs. Serious envy might have entered your mind.
But when your close Chinese friend’s formerly cheap and ugly apartment just [...]
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