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Headline – “China burns U.S. consumers again”
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyHere’s an interesting editorial from the Idaho Mountain Express (4 Nov 09), sent to me by Julien Roger of China Quality Focus, which is short enough to quote in full. In their headlong rush for global respectability as a hybrid Communist-free market power, mainland Chinese masters of the world’s largest population omitted a vital function […]
How to use supplier audits to ensure effective China sourcing
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyHere’s a great interview with Mike Bellamy, founder of PassageMaker, discussing the importance of supplier audits and how PassageMaker and our friends at China Quality Focus can make them effective.
Governmental incompetence and the illusion of the opposite…
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI’ve been watching the live-action version of Atlas Shrugged unfold in the USA in the form of The Great Recession with a profound sadness and morbid curiosity. What is most striking is the sheer incompetence of the governments involved. California, once the beacon of American economic might is looking especially bad these days. Here’s a […]
American competitiveness = American creativity
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyYesterday I was in a perfectly justified foul mood at the rampant economic stupidity being foisted upon America by our semi-permanent governing class, but while I am disgusted with many elements of American society, I still have great faith in this country. I am a minor stockholder in a local manufacturing company that celebrated 95 […]
Stomach of Iron, Liver of Steel (I wish)
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyAs I look at the possibility of returning to Asia for an extended trip in the near future, I can honestly report a piquant combination of excitement and fear. Excitement because it has been too long since my last trip, and I have missed China and Singapore. Fear because I am not sure how much […]
The “Sweet & Sour” China experience
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyAndrea Martins, our sales representative in Brazil, lived in China for 25 years. She makes Mike and I look like amateurs when it comes to the crazy China stories. She has my favorite term for dealing with China – “Sweet & Sour”, like the famous pork dish. During our regular calls, she will say such-and-such […]
Climategate and pollution in China
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI’ve written about the ghastly pollution in China before (here, here, here, here and here). With the recent bomb of “Climategate”, much of the core data supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been called into question. I am not going to get into a debate about AGW, or whether a trace gas […]
NOT GOOD, part 2
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyHere’s an interactive map of Food Stamp usage in America. The recession in the USA in a long way from over. But my entirely anecdotal and unscientific research tells me that the rest of the world is recovering pretty well. PassageMaker is definitely seeing an influx of new projects from clients outside the USA. We […]
Further thoughts on “Karl Who?”
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyYesterday’s post discussed the possibility of the PRC as the world’s first mature fascist state. I received a number of comments, including this from Adam Supernant in our Shenzhen office: I wouldn’t call China fascist (fascists were xenophobes; there’s not much of a racial superiority kick in China) but it’s also not Communist…I think the […]
Karl Who?
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI have often said that commentators in the USA are woefully uninformed when they talk about “Communist China”. This article in Slate by Daniel Gross is as good an example as any of the shock of first time visitors to China. The little red books are sold as souvenirs now, but no one reads them. […]