Leading “defense expert” Bharat Verma recently stated that “China will launch an attack on India before 2012,” citing China’s hunger for dominance in Asia and the need to divert attention from its own internal social unrest as main points leading to his rather incendiary conclusion. A few months ago, Wang Xiaodong, one of the authors [...]
I received an email this morning from a B-school student who, like me, has fallen in love with China. He expressed an interest in my professional background and wrote, “there is much to learn from you and your experience.” This type of correspondence is not unusual; I get about three emails a month from university [...]
Before I delve into addressing how Western business professionals and companies can avoid China’s “corruption trap” while maintaining face, consider the following reports that have surfaced over the past week: “An official in charge of rooting out police corruption in a north China city has been fired for arranging a police motorcade for his mother’s [...]
Austin Ramzy, Beijing Correspondent for the China Time Inc. blog, published a thought-provoking post today on a subject near and dear to my heart- bird flu. As mentioned previously, I’d been retained by a large media company in 2007 to research and write a comprehensive pandemic plan for internal crisis management operations and have since viewed both [...]
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