This podcast explains how Pinduoduo is changing the future of retail with a combination of entertainment, social, commerce, price and predictability in the market.

Last week Xi Jinping reached out to the world to create a global cybersecurity community, an internet model that would make the world a safer place. How should the West respond to this invitation to work together on this model?

This podcast explains more about the internal and external implications of the dual circulation strategy that will be part of China's next five year plan 2021-2025

This podcast explains the relevance of the newly signed RCEP deal between 15 East-Asian countries, excluding India. This new Asian trade bloc is larger than NAFTA, EU or TPP. This sets the beginning of a new era where Asian countries will drive the center of the world's economy.

In this video the question is about what happened for CHina's regulators to stop the Ant IPO? Was it due to an internal political tension? Was it geopolitical? The Election in U.S.? Was it regulators who are worried of ponzi-scheme? Was it tightening of financial markets?

This episode explains why Chinese companies will continue to go global, despite all the hurdles and anti-China mindset of the West. The reasons are market needs, need for raising quality and financial motives. I explain in all three cases how Chinese tech companies are pulled by the West and pushed by China to expand.

This podcast talks about how Chinese consumers care ever more about their privacy, how Chinese companies are paying more attention to privacy protection than before and how the government is creating a cyber security law that is more strict than GDPR and could become a standard for the developing world.

In this podcast I explain how Western companies approach China typically in 3 mindsets: gold diggers looking for markets, missionaries trying to convert customers and cultural anthropologists wanting to understand the culture behind the market. I believe the era of gold diggers is quasi-over, the period of missionaries is still possible as China wants to learn still much about high-tech and expertise services, but that period will last another 5-10 years maximum. The best mindset is that of an anthropologist as that will never end and Chinese will always welcome brands that want to learn from China.

This podcast explains how many people in China are still living in extreme poverty, lower and higher middle-class; and what the Chinese government is doing to eradicate extreme poverty today in China.

This podcast explains how we can stay competitive against China by reenforcing our own strengths such as I.P., strategy, efficiency and branding whilst learning from China about their strengths such as speed, building on ecosystems, agility and customer centricity.