Well how about that?! Vitamin C: Your Daily Dose On China has just turned 50 years old! Half a century of existence, eh? And who would have thought we’d have made it this far? Well thankfully the more important story is China, and, moreover, where it finds itself exactly after 60 years of independent statehood. [...]
There is “good” Mao and “bad” Mao. There is the Mao of the Chinese Civil War, and then there’s the Mao of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. So which Mao Zedong is the “real” Mao Zedong? Peter Levenda gets into all of this in his latest book, “The Mao of Business: Guerrilla [...]
So you think you’re just going to come into China and fling product to 1.3 billion starving customers? ::: buzzer sound! ::: Not going to happen! It’s not nearly that easy. Bigger names with even deeper pockets have managed to crap out and fail (Rupert Murdoch anyone?). So if you’re not prepared for a deeper [...]
DISCLAIMER | Trying something slightly different today. Hope you don’t mind. Please let us know what you think, by the way… ~~~~ So have you ever wondered what’s the big hullabaloo about the Chinese — in one fell swoop — having the power to undermine America’s national economy if they one day up and decide [...]
Welcome back, it’s been quite some time since our last episode, hasn’t it? Anyways I’ve been on a reading tear of late and just ploughed through Robyn Meredith’s bestselling THE ELEPHANT AND THE DRAGON: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, a thin comparative study between the two [...]
Welcome to Copşa Mică, Romania, the most polluted city in all of Europe before Wall Fall (google it if you don’t believe us!). Apologizes in advance: we didn’t intend to be so “Speedy Gonzalez” on this ep, but some barrel-chested former miners — the same irate cats who were summoned by the reconstituted post-Ceauşescu regime [...]