Archive for the ‘Doing Business in China’ Category

Don’t Show Them Just How Great

Movies make money. Brokeback mountain, http://www.brokebackmountainmovie.com/home.html made money…$51M smackaroonies to be exact.
The director, Ang Lee, is Chinese, and was born in Taiwan …

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 10th, 2006 in Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Millionaires out the Gazoo

Quick, name a 5000 year old country that now ranks as the number 3 consumer of high-end goods.
Did you guess India? Nope…China…you are right?
How many millionaires are there in China?
Merr…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 10th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Outsourcing Hurts the US

Bush said, "It is painful for those who lose jobs."
I’ll say.
"But the fundamental question is, how does a government or society react to that? One way is to throw up protectioni…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 9th, 2006 in China, Doing Business in China, India | No Comments

The Mayor of Ningbo on a Harley??

Milwaukee Mayor, Tom Barrett, wants to do business in China.
The advice he received to open up the Chinese market was to get Ningbo, www.ningbo.com  an auto manufacturing hub south of Shanghai t…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 8th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Get ‘em While They Are Cheap

How many companies have invested or own American companies?
According to Todd M. Malan, president of the Organization for International Investment, a Washington Lobby for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 8th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Put up your Dukes

There’s a litte guy, Hu Ge. He is no relation to my wife, Hu Xiangtao or Prime Minister Hu. My wife’s not related to the PM either.  There are lots of Hus in China. There are a l…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 8th, 2006 in Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

China to the Rescue

The Rust Belt – Detroit, Milwuakee, and St. Louis.
These are where the auto parts makers are and they are hurting. Would $820 million help? Perhaps it would, but who has that kind of money?
Chin…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 7th, 2006 in Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

China does e-commerce

I learned something today about China from Nischal at
http://internetsalsa.blogspot.com/2006/01/dangdang-e-commerce-in-china-part-1.html
What struck me is how similar the mindset of the Chinese is to…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 4th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Spittuiii!!

Peter Ueberroth, US Olympic Committee Chairman, is quoted as saying, “The 2008 Olympics will be one of the most significant events for our generation – not only athletically, but cult…

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Posted by Bill Belew on March 3rd, 2006 in All about China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments