Category: China
Billionaire Prophecies
20-06-2010
There was a fascinating interview with Chinese property billionaire Zhang Zin today on CNN's GPS, Fareed Zakaria's programme. Zhang Zin is the CEO of SOHO China, a very successful property empire. In it, she predicts that China can't continue as the outsourcing...
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Big Trouble In China ...?
17-06-2010
While the US stares financial oblivion in the face, and Western Europe starts to wonder if the Euro was such a well thought-through idea after all, it may come as a surprise to some to learn that all is not well in the Far East either. You can read an...
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Rarer Earths
02-06-2010
Rare earths are elements essential to many manufacturing processes. In the future, the control of the supply of rare earths will help influence where manufacturing industries are located. With its control of no less than 95% of world production, China...
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More Mean Than Lean
19-04-2010
There's an article in the UK Daily Mail newspaper currently about conditions in a factory in Dongguan, China, which assembles mice and webcams for Microsoft and others, including Hon Hai (Foxconn). Although a right-wing newspaper, it often has interesting...
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The Right Decisions
03-04-2010
There's another thought-provoking piece over at Evolving Excellence by Lean Consultant Bill Waddell, comparing the practices of Rio Tinto and Google in China. It's well worth a visit and a bit of reflection on how the desire to get into China is affecting...
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When Worldviews Collide
26-01-2010
Google's reaction to the discovery that its e-mail servers had recently been hacked by the Chinese government's cloak and dagger nerds has been a revelation. You may have been following the stand-off, and rightly so - it brings together many of...
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Of Playstations And Battle Stations
12-12-2009
If you've ever wondered whether a consumer electronics industry is still worth having, you might be interested in the news that the US Dept of Defense has just bought 336 old-shape Playstation 3 consoles to develop into a cut-price military supercomputer...
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China Update
15-09-2009
Here's an update on China news that caught our eye in the last month:
A China analyst has urged caution over China's development of Wind Power. The blog post at the Manufacturing Crunch website gives detailed reasons why Wind Power will be difficult...
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