“I would describe the 2016 battle for the White House as "social media marketing expertise" versus "the economists". Four hundred economists were anti-Trump (19 of them have Nobel prizes), all the tra… More

As the Chinese Embassy in Delhi recently pointed out, China and India have made remarkable progress in the last 15 years, as bilateral trade has grown by a factor of 24 from $2.9 billion to $71.6 bill… More

Many media comments blamed the failure of the Yahoo empire on Marissa Mayer, the company’s female CEO, and her shopping spree. More

Financial markets have become increasingly nervous whenever China reports its quarterly GDP numbers. The nervousness is not surprising since China is the second largest economy, in real terms, or the… More

Entrepreneurship, the pursuit of opportunities despite lacking the necessary resources at the outset, is often celebrated as a hero of the global economy. More

China’s vast, diverse and still-growing market, its legions of low-cost scientists and engineers, and its innovation ecosystem of research institutes, technology parks and universities (built by the g… More

The long battle between Uber and Didi Chuxing ended in July with a $35 billion megamerger that was expected to put an end to the subsidy war that had left both sides haemorrhaging cash. In the days af… More

China’s struggling phone maker Xiaomi was slated to roll out its own payment platform, Mi Pay, today in a marketplace already crowded by the likes of Apple Pay, We Chat Wallet and Samsung with Huawei… More

As the Chinese saying goes, “it takes a decade to grow trees, but a century to groom talent.” Unfortunately, given the Chinese economy’s constant changes and fast-paced development, companies cannot w… More

Mainland China has the world’s second largest population of billionaires, with 335 calling it home according to the 2015 Forbes China Rich List, putting it just behind the US. Yet China ranks 144th ou… More