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How to Sell to China Now

1/17/2012 - TCBN Charter Member James Chan, President of Asia Marketing & Management based in Philadelphia, PA, was recently interviewed by BusinessWeek. Chan encourages small and medium sized business to work hard for success in the complex and evolving Chinese market. See full article below. Read More...

The Schadenfreude Podcast

Hosted by Kaiser Kuo on Sinica

8/17/2011 -

A popular podcast series, Sinica is published by Popup Chinese and republished with permission. View the original here.

"China is an export economy. It needs places to export its manufactured goods to."

Charter Member on Prime Time

Interview with Malcolm Riddell on NBC

5/17/2011 -

Charter Member Malcolm Riddell, President of RiddellTseng and founder of ChinaDebate was recently interviewed on NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams.

"Anyone who scratches the surface of modern China realizes that communism is not a prevalent ideology there."

China’s Religious Revival

Discussion with Eric Olander and Michael McCune

3/18/2011 - Chinese society has changed so much over the past three decades that it has been difficult for peoples’ emotions, spiritual and moral beliefs to keep up. Throughout much of the economic reform period of the late 20th century, the focus was squarely on economic development. Now, as China has reached a milestone of becoming the world’s second largest economy and on its way to becoming the first, a growing number of Chinese are seeking more than just economic advancement. Read More...

"Anybody who's trying to get a sense of what China and the US's relationship is like by reading US media is setting themselves up for misunderstanding the state of the world and how China fits into it."

Debt and Dissent

Discussion with Michael McCune and Eric Olander

2/25/2011 - Can the US still assert any authority? Is China powerful enough to hold sway on any topic? The duel topics of debt and dissent seem oddly in parallel as Charter Members and China Talking Points cofounders Eric Olander and Michael McCune discuss what external influences may play a role within China. Read More...

"Every country censors media in some form or another. Viewing censorship as nonexistent in the West, and as agressive and comprehensive in China is wrong on both counts."

Censorship in China: What, Who, Why & How?

Discussion with Michael McCune & Eric Olander

2/23/2011 -

In the West media is the kingmaker for brands and businesses as well as ideas. This backgrounder on media censorship in China - and the USA - just posted on China Talking Points, the podcast and blogspot run by TCBN Charter Members Michael McCune and Eric Olander.

"If their population has these massive blind spotsin their understanding of the world, one has to wonder - how are they going to deal with the rest of the world if they don't understand it because they've been deprived of the events and knowledge that goes along with that?"

China and the Egyptian Uprising

Discussion with Eric Olander & Michael McCune

2/10/2011 -

The question has been asked, "If Egypt was the next Tunisia, is China the next Egypt?" Charter Members Eric Olander and Michael McCune, editors of China Talking Points podcasts, have just discussed this very topic.

"Our military just wants to have a deeper understanding about how they operate so we don't make mistakes, because we don't have a big history of in depth miliatry exercises or joint exercises."

China's Military Power Projection

Interview with Michael McCune

2/7/2011 - In the latest podcast in China Talking Points, by Charter Member Eric Olander, Olander engages in the timely exploration of China's military expansion. Michael McCune advocates new military advances, debated by Olander. Read More...

"When visiting several migrant schools about five years ago, I asked what help the schools needed from society. At each school they asked me if I could come and teach English to their kids."

In Shanghai, Helping Migrant Schools Compete with Public Schools

Interview with Corinne Hua

10/27/2010 - Five years ago Corinne Hua became aware of the need for qualified English teachers in schools for the children of migrant workers. What at first began as word of mouth volunteering is now a formal program called Stepping Stones that participates in 18 schools across Shanghai. Read More...

"My conclusion is too many people go to China too fast without enough background."

Seeing China Through its History of Aviation

Interview with Magnus Bartlett

10/23/2010 - Magnus Bartlett founded Oddessy Publications with his first book, Over Hong Kong, a book of arial photos of Hong Kong. Oddessy is now expanding from travel and interest books on different cities and regions in Asia to conduct small guided tours of Chinese aviation history through Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. Read More...

"The number of Chinese individuals in Hong Kong, for business or tourism, has increased dramatically in the time we've been away."

Hong Kong Keeps Changing to Stay Strong

Interview with Allen Andersen

10/21/2010 - Allen Andersen has been living in Hong Kong for more than thirty years, and during that time has worked in private equity and venture capital for both domestic and multinational organizations. He recently spent three years on sabbatical in Mongolia and had very little contact with people and events happening in Hong Kong. In this video he talks about the changes he found when he returned, and changes he's seen in the time he has lived there. Read More...

"Everybody in the world is now wanting to be something increasingly related to China."

Foreign Business Schools Beef Up Chinese MBA Programs - And Vice Versa

Interview with John Van Fleet

10/18/2010 - John Van Fleet is the Assistant Dean, USC Marshall School of Business, Executive Director, Global Executive MBA in Shanghai (with Shanghai Jiao Tong University). Antai College offers both English and Chinese language MBA programs, as well as a Chinese EMBA program with about 400 annual participants. The program is one of the top 5 in China, and is extremely successful in its global MBA programs. Read More...

"The Chinese want to be more assertive of their position in the South China Sea. It's a kind of probe to see where Japan of even the US might take a stand."

Sino-Japanese Tensions Still Run High in Qingdao

Interview with Howie Snyder

10/12/2010 - Howie Snyder has lived in China for nearly 20 years, and has also lived in Japan for 10. Because of his knowledge of both countries' histories, mindset, and cultures, he can see why the claim of both sides of the Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku Islands) by Japan is so upsetting to China. Read More...

"An $8 trillion market for services will be created in China - that's the size of the current US market."

Orchestrall and TCBN Put China In Your Business Future

Interview with Jason Patent

7/28/2010 - Dr. Jason Patent is VP Communications & Marketing at Orchestrall, a China market access firm. China's growth in the next few years will be from export manufacturing to value added services. Orchestrall and The China Business Network are presenting a seminar, China Business Toolbox, on September 8, to help introduce companies to the services market in China. Read More...

"Part of the reason there’s so much consternation lately regarding China’s business laws is not because they’re arbitrary or unfair, but because they now have them and they’re being enforced."

Think China Has Too Much Legal Gray Area? Ask Google, and Think Again

Interview with Dan Harris

4/1/2010 - Rio Tinto executives plead guilty, Google chooses to exit rather than comply with China's content censorship laws. Dan Harris says these cases show that: everyone who has moaned about too much gray area and inconsistent enforcement of business law are getting what they wanted. Black and White. And a Sheriff who doesn't care who you are, the Law is the Law. Read More...

"People who read this book are people who want to be entrepreneurs in China. That means by nature they have limited time. I just had to pick out the best bits and pieces and present it to them."

Wisdom from those Who Seek Fortune on Distant Shores

Interview with Laurie Underwood

3/8/2010 - After the recent publication of her new book China Entrepreneur, co-authored with Juan Antonio Fernandez, Laurie Underwood talks about how the idea for the book came about. More than 50 entrepreneurs in China were interviewed for the book, giving it a very real, hands-on feel to it.
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"There was very, very little of real corporate philanthropy and certainly there was no sense of corporate social responsibility until very recently."

Who Says the Chinese Don't Volunteer?

Interview with Corinne Hua

12/10/2009 - Corinne Hua is a consultant at CSR & Company, the first and the best Corporate Social Responsibility consultant team in China. During one of her volunteering campaigns she came across the need to help at schools for migrant children - and founded Stepping Stones to do so. Read More...