Shaun Rein

on December 5, 2017

Shaun Rein is the Founder and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), the world’s leading strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. He works with boards, CEOs, and senior executives of Fortune 500 and leading Chinese companies, private equity firms, SMEs, and long/hedge funds to develop their China growth and investment strategies.

Rein is the author of The War for China’s Wallet: Profiting from the New World Order, The End of Cheap China, and The End of Copycat China. Publishers Weekly named “Cheap” a Top 10 business book for 2012. The Financial Times called “Copycat” “Intriguing.”

Rein is regularly featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The Financial Times. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times. He frequently appears on CNN, BBC, NPR, MarketPlace, CNBC, Bloomberg, PBS, and MSNBC. Rein formerly taught executive education classes for London Business School, previously was a weekly columnist for CNBC and Forbes, and wrote a regular column for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Rein graduated from Harvard with a Master’s degree focused on China. He sits on the Asia Council for St. Paul’s School.

China Will Lead an Electric Car Future, Ford's Chairman Says

By Keith Bradsher on December 5, 2017

Speaking in Shanghai, William C. Ford Jr., Ford Motor’s longtime executive chairman, outlined why in an unusually blunt comment. “When I think of where E.V.s are going,” he said, using an abbreviation for electric vehicles, “it’s clearly the case that China will lead the world in E.V. development.”

Business, Economy, Energy
Automobile Industry, Automobiles, Electric Cars, Electric Vehicles, Clean Energy

Are Alibaba and Tencent Fueling a Tech Bubble? Investors Weigh the Worrisome Question

By Polina Marinova on December 5, 2017

Alibaba has spent roughly $1.72 billion buying at least 50 startups and small businesses since 2013, while Tencent has doled out at least $780 million over the same period, according to Nikkei Asian Review.

Business, Technology
Investment, Capital, Start-Ups, Technology, Internet

Behind China's Attempt to Ease the Rohingya Crisis

By Nicholas Bequelin on December 5, 2017

Beijing strenuously avoids playing a high-profile part in ameliorating international humanitarian crises. Its most identifiable role in Myanmar had been to shield the local military from international criticism for carrying out what the United Nations high commissioner on human rights has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” that has set off the exodus of more than 600,000 people to neighboring Bangladesh.

Military, Politics
China-Myanmar Relations, Myanmar, Human Rights, Migration, Borders, United Nations

Forestry Administration Holds Internal Foreign NGO-Related Meeting; Tianjin, Chongqing, and Jiangsu Public Security Bureaus Hold Trainings

Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—November 24-December 1, 2017

on December 4, 2017

On November 21, the State Forestry Administration convened a meeting on the Foreign NGO Law, attended by 28 provincial- and city-level Forestry offices as well as by the Beijing Public Security Bureau (PSB) Foreign NGO Management Office. Participants discussed various forestry offices’ work with foreign NGOs and the Beijing PSB emphasized its desire to continue to cooperate with forestry officials.

Special Report: Hidden Peril Awaits China’s Banks as Property Binge Fuels Mortgage Fraud Frenzy

By Engen Tham, Clare Jim, Yawen Chen on December 4, 2017

While property prices in China continue to rise, mortgage fraud remains largely a hidden danger, much as subprime loans in the United States remained mostly out of sight ahead of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Business, Economy, Law
Markets, Housing, Loans