Late last week, LinkedIn, a business-focused social media platform run by tech giant Microsoft, ceased its China service with dramatic consequences for millions of job…
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Gabor is a Shanghai-based intercultural leadership consultant, coach, author and speaker with a focus on East-West leadership and expat assignments. He holds a Masters Degree in International Relations and European Studies, an MPhil in Diplomacy and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) degree in English and Mandarin. A former OSCE field mission official, China-based since 2002 and working globally, Gabor has served 100+ clients in 30+ countries. He is a visiting lecturer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a number of business programmes in the Asia-Pacific and Europe. He has authored three books and a variety of articles in academic and business publications.
Recent developments between China and the world bring to mind a 1960s Buffalo Springfield song: “There’s something happening here—What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Realising…
Lunar New Year celebrations, typically in February, are a chance to promote Chinese culture abroad. But this year’s festive updates from a resolutely booming China…
In 2003, when I first travelled to Tokyo from my newly furnished home in Shanghai, Japan was a technologically isolated ‘Galapagos island’ way ahead of…
It is hard not to feel confused over the current China-US sabre-rattling. American politicians have recently accused China of hacking US research for Coronavirus vaccines,…
Predictably dramatic reactions followed Beijing’s late-March announcement of yet another modification of China’s Covid-19 case statistics. Some remained objective: Time Magazine remarked that “it was…