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China article, Is renminbi the next global currency

FEBRUARY 2010

Is the renminbi the next global currency?

Geng Xiao, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, discusses how divergent growth rates of the Chinese and US economies will erode the hegemony of dollar—but not right away.

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JULY 2008

How corporate China is evolving

China’s business landscape is changing rapidly. So must the way we comprehend it.
MAY 2008

A pioneer in Chinese globalization: An interview with CIMC's president

A company that has already disrupted the container business is moving into transportation equipment and services.
MAY 2008

Competition from China: Two McKinsey Surveys

Executives around the world expect competition from Chinese companies to increase, mainly because of their low production costs, yet surprisingly few are acting to meet the threat, a McKinsey survey shows. A separate survey of executives based in China reveals widespread global ambitions and concerns about finding the talent to reach them.
JULY 2008

The cost of going global for China’s high-tech companies

Chinese technology companies are competing successfully on their home turf. Global markets may be another story, at least in the short run.
MAY 2008

How Chinese companies can succeed abroad

Chinese companies are seeking opportunities abroad. They will have to acclimate to new surroundings—just as the foreign companies that entered China did.
NOVEMBER 2007

Bringing best practice to China

As the country merges into the world economy, best practice in China will become best practice globally, products developed in China will become global products, and industrial processes developed in China will become global processes.

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JULY 2008

Meeting the challenges of China’s growing cities

China’s cities are booming. Intelligent policies could make the good effects prevail over the bad ones.

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MARCH 2010

China’s Internet obsession

People in the country’s 60 largest cities spend 70 percent of their leisure time online. Seismic changes in the consumer market are likely as a result.
DECEMBER 2009

Creating competitive advantage with IT architecture: An interview with Shanghai Mobile’s CIO

Xie Qin explains how he used service-oriented architecture to create a smarter, more efficient system.
SEPTEMBER 2009

Think regionally, act locally: Four steps to reaching the Asian consumer

The most successful global consumer enterprises are radically reshaping their organizations and business models to suit the region’s rapidly evolving high-growth markets.
AUGUST 2009

A consumer paradigm for China

A more consumer-centric economy would allocate capital and resources more efficiently, generate more jobs, and spread the benefits of growth more equitably. It would also even grow more rapidly.
DECEMBER 2008

Private ownership: The real source of China’s economic miracle

Even many Western economists think China has discovered its own road to prosperity, dependent largely on state financing and control. They are quite wrong.
JULY 2008

How to address China’s growing talent shortage

The imbalance between business opportunities in China and qualified executives to manage them will get worse—a lot worse—before it gets better.

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