Mar 7, 20204 minChina as a global lender By Irchiro Suzuki A recent Harvard Business Review article reveals some facts about China as a global lender. China lends some 150...
Feb 25, 20203 minJapan’s Consumption TaxThe Japanese government played extremely carefully on the last round of consumption tax hike on October 1, from 8 to 10%. It was only 2%...
Feb 25, 20204 minSoftbank and Activist FundBy Ichiro Suzuki Earlier this month, Paul Singer of activist fund Elliot Management Corp has announced that his firm has built a $3...
Feb 11, 20203 minRise of TeslaBy Ichiro Suzuki Tesla has lately stunned the investment world with a sharp upswing. Having more than tripled its share price in a few...
Feb 11, 20203 minPaternity leave in JapanBy Ichiro Suzuki Writing laws is an easy part. The real game is making the sprit of the law stand. That’s a lot tougher part since it...
Jan 31, 20206 minWhen Technology Meets TyrannyBy Peter Zhang Back in May 2014, Stephen Hawking, along with several other scientists, warned the world: “Success in creating AI...
Jan 31, 20207 minBeijing’s Achilles’ Heel: Lack of LegitimacyBy Peter Zhang When Her Majesty’s subjects in the British Commonwealth rise to sing “God Save the Queen” at a World Cup soccer game, few...
Jan 31, 20206 minTaiwan Shows China Open Society Is the FutureBy Peter Zhang In Homer’s “Odyssey,” the notorious Trojan horse was a formidable gift from the Greeks. Later, the Roman poet Virgil...
Jan 31, 20207 minThe Kingdom of Fake News: A Study of Beijing’s Propaganda Campaign Against Falun GongBy Peter Zhang Amidst the ongoing debate over so-called fake news in the United States, American media outlets lack any kind of...
Jan 30, 20204 minJapanification By Ichiro Suzuki It was called the Japan disease prior to the global financial crisis. The Japanese economy was mired in persistent slow...
Jan 21, 20207 minThe False Promise of Beijing’s One Belt, One Road InitiativeBy Peter Zhang It’s safe to assume that Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel laureate in economics, wasn’t kidding when he authored “There’s...
Jan 21, 20205 min2019 Starts Slowly for China’s EconomyBy Peter Zhang 2019 is the Year of the Pig. Legend has it that one day, the Jade Emperor, a fabled ruler of heaven and Earth, decided to...
Jan 21, 20206 minBeijing’s Stepped-Up Repression: The Darkest Hours Before the DawnBy Peter Zhang Sausages may look awfully tasty on the plate, but few would perhaps wish to know the entire sausage-making process. These...
Jan 21, 20205 minBeijing’s New Hostage DiplomacyBy Peter Zhang With Beijing’s retaliation for Canada's arrest of the CFO of China’s technology giant, Huawei, the Chinese regime has...
Jan 20, 20206 minThe Chinese Regime’s Fragile Doctrine of Self-ConfidenceBy Peter Zhang A video showing policemen in Shenzhen walking into a young woman’s apartment last month and taking her away in the middle...
Jan 20, 20205 minMoral Courage Needed in Reconsidering China PolicyBy Peter Zhang Benjamin Franklin once said, “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” In the wake of the obvious fact that the U.S.-led...
Jan 20, 20206 minTaming the Red Dragon in the Trade WarBy Peter Zhang Washington is understandably seeking to resort to all available means to level the playing field in the current trade war...
Jan 20, 20204 minThe Chinese Regime Aims to Vanquish Capitalism With Socialism, but What’s Really at Stake? By Peter Zhang Amid intense trade negotiations between Beijing and Washington on April 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s 2013 speech to...
Jan 13, 20203 minChina’s Lending to the Less Developed WorldThe Economist article below reveals how China has been lending practices to the less developed world, as the country has grown to be the lar
Jan 13, 20203 minLatin America Faces a Second Lost DecadeYet again, another tough decade is ahead for Latin America as Peronists returned to power in Argentina, a left wing populist is at the helm