Merkel Dances Alone In Beijing
Beijing finds itself much more at ease with Berlin than it does with Brussels. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent…
China's Number One Company Hunter
The investment company Mandarin has bought companies in Italy with money from Bejing. Now it’s Germany’s turn. Alberto Forchielli loves…
Japan’s Crisis Of The 1990’s
The intention of this piece is to shed some light on the Japanese crisis of the early 1990s. The…
The Italian Blogger Read By The Chinese
It can be interpreted as proof, the umpteenth, that curiosity and the willingness to go off the beaten path…
The Chinese Industrial Sector Needs To Make Some Cultural Changes
The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics published data about the trend of profits of Chinese industrial companies last week….
The Contradictions of Development
The Bo Xilai affair is merely the most recent of a long series of scandals. For the past several…
Building The Jobs Of Tomorrow
In a seemingly innocent comic that recently appeared in the New York Times, a young boy asks his father…
Can China Win The Battle For Respect?
The two recent economic scandals involving Chinese companies, Volkswagen-FAW and Nexen-CNOOC, confirm that statements made by Jeffrey Immelt, CEO…
China’s Broken Dreams Of A “Virtuous” Development
Only the less attentive observers predicted extreme outcomes as a result of the admission of China to the World…
Mandarin Capital Nears First Close of EUR1B Fund
Mandarin Capital Partners , the Sino-European cross-border private equity fund, is close to a 500 million…