The Shadow Knows
David Pilling of the Financial Timesreports some disturbing statistics on the degree to which China’s economy is dependent on official- and “gray” Ponzi schemes: The upshot is an ill-defined and...
View ArticleDoing Business in China: Innovative, or Just Plain Ingenious?
While in Beijing the past few days I’ve had the pleasure of participating in the Beijing Bookworm International Literary Festival. Just after the first of two talks on my latest book, China Fast...
View ArticleThe Chinese Middle Class Discovers Civilization
This past weekend at the Beijing Bookworm International Literary Festival a moderator asked me during one of my book talks where he thought non-traditional thinking about relationships in Chinese...
View ArticleThe Politics of Discovery in China
March 22nd, 2013 In other words, the two most important systems supporting innovation in a society are woefully skewed to meeting the demands and vanity of CCP sponsorship. Ultimately, Chinese...
View ArticleTapping the Brains of the BRICs
April 2nd, 2013 A great op-ed piece in the Financial Times echoes a proposition I make in the Afterword of “China Fast Forward”: countries need to break down the barri...
View ArticleChina is No “Robin Hood” of Innovation
April 8th, 2013 A recent link I posted on the China Fast Forward group
View ArticlePatently Obvious
I asked the American inventor one of the most important questions you can ask a foreign businessman in China: “How are you going to protect the invention?” He smiled, “That’s the beauty of it,” he...
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