Gabor Holch China cultural intelligence https://asiapowerwatch.com/author/gabor-holch/ an observatory of Asian economic power Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:13:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://asiapowerwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-logo-Asie-1-32x32.jpg Gabor Holch China cultural intelligence https://asiapowerwatch.com/author/gabor-holch/ 32 32 Strategies for challenging times: foreign companies can still thrive in today’s China https://asiapowerwatch.com/strategies-for-challenging-times-foreign-companies-can-still-thrive-in-todays-china/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strategies-for-challenging-times-foreign-companies-can-still-thrive-in-todays-china https://asiapowerwatch.com/strategies-for-challenging-times-foreign-companies-can-still-thrive-in-todays-china/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:13:55 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=3273 This article was originally printed in EURObiz – Journal of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. Thank you to the author for his…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/strategies-for-challenging-times-foreign-companies-can-still-thrive-in-todays-china/feed/ 0 What foreign firms can and cannot do to prepare for China’s foreign-spy law https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-foreign-firms-can-and-cannot-do-to-prepare-for-chinas-foreign-spy-law/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-foreign-firms-can-and-cannot-do-to-prepare-for-chinas-foreign-spy-law https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-foreign-firms-can-and-cannot-do-to-prepare-for-chinas-foreign-spy-law/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:11:09 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=3083 This article was originally published on July 4, 2023 on holch.biz. Thank you to the author for the kind authorization to re-publish. The international business…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-foreign-firms-can-and-cannot-do-to-prepare-for-chinas-foreign-spy-law/feed/ 0 Why business with China will never be the same again https://asiapowerwatch.com/why-business-with-china-will-never-be-the-same-again/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-business-with-china-will-never-be-the-same-again https://asiapowerwatch.com/why-business-with-china-will-never-be-the-same-again/#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:44:55 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2752 If the stock market is the mood of the world at any given moment, as one job applicant in the Netflix show Billions insightfully claimed,…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/why-business-with-china-will-never-be-the-same-again/feed/ 0 Linked Out: understanding China’s digital divergence https://asiapowerwatch.com/linked-out-understanding-chinas-digital-divergence/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=linked-out-understanding-chinas-digital-divergence https://asiapowerwatch.com/linked-out-understanding-chinas-digital-divergence/#respond Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:52:59 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2669 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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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/linked-out-understanding-chinas-digital-divergence/feed/ 0 Foreign firms in China must move up, on or out https://asiapowerwatch.com/foreign-firms-in-china-must-move-up-on-or-out/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foreign-firms-in-china-must-move-up-on-or-out https://asiapowerwatch.com/foreign-firms-in-china-must-move-up-on-or-out/#respond Thu, 27 May 2021 07:32:11 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=1732 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…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/foreign-firms-in-china-must-move-up-on-or-out/feed/ 0 Why China’s soft power erodes in an outspoken age https://asiapowerwatch.com/why-chinas-soft-power-erodes-in-an-outspoken-age/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-chinas-soft-power-erodes-in-an-outspoken-age https://asiapowerwatch.com/why-chinas-soft-power-erodes-in-an-outspoken-age/#respond Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:53:29 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=1518 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…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/why-chinas-soft-power-erodes-in-an-outspoken-age/feed/ 0 WeChat, Zoom, TikTok and the future of Chinese technology culture https://asiapowerwatch.com/wechat-zoom-tiktok-and-the-future-of-chinese-technology-culture/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wechat-zoom-tiktok-and-the-future-of-chinese-technology-culture https://asiapowerwatch.com/wechat-zoom-tiktok-and-the-future-of-chinese-technology-culture/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2020 06:24:57 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=1143 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…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/wechat-zoom-tiktok-and-the-future-of-chinese-technology-culture/feed/ 0 Hide and seek: cooperation and competition in China-US relations https://asiapowerwatch.com/hide-and-seek-cooperation-and-competition-in-china-us-relations/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hide-and-seek-cooperation-and-competition-in-china-us-relations https://asiapowerwatch.com/hide-and-seek-cooperation-and-competition-in-china-us-relations/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2020 05:49:11 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=913 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,…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/hide-and-seek-cooperation-and-competition-in-china-us-relations/feed/ 0 Business lessons from China’s Covid-19 transparency policy https://asiapowerwatch.com/business-lessons-from-chinas-covid-19-transparency-policy/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=business-lessons-from-chinas-covid-19-transparency-policy https://asiapowerwatch.com/business-lessons-from-chinas-covid-19-transparency-policy/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2020 06:23:11 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=720 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…

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