China’s Crackdown on Cryptocurrency
5 min read. On Friday, 18 June 2021, Chinese authorities ordered cryptocurrency miners in Sichuan province to shut down their operations, marking the dissolution of one of the biggest bitcoin…
Category: Digital Economy
China’s Crackdown on Chinese Tech Companies
5 min read. Earlier this year, China’s antitrust regulators slapped a record fine of US$2.8 billion on e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding in a landmark case. In the months following…
Five B2B Digitalization Trends in China
6 min read. Recent years have seen a digital transformation in just about every aspect of business, including the automation of processes, and the introduction of cashless payments. Given the…
China’s Anti-Trust Move: Impact on the Chinese Internet Economy
7 min read. The BAT1 of China is the equivalent of FAANG2 in the United States (US) — what the acronyms really mean is that the technology and internet industries…
Five Chinese Non-Healthcare Corona-Tech Startups
7 min read. Since late 2018, venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments in China have slowed sharply, marking a deep “capital winter”, which has been exacerbated by the…
Chinese Internet Slangs of 2020: A Glimpse into China’s Changing Society
6 min read. The Chinese internet is an interesting world to navigate. It is often like a grapevine reserved for insiders who can crack secret codes that open the doors…
What China Has Done Right For Payments
6 min read. China’s mobile payment market has grown to become the largest in the world. In 2018 alone, it handled approximately $532.8 billion mobile payment transactions, amounting to $66.6…
E-Commerce is Social In China’s Small Cities
6 min read. Over the past year, e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD, have been aggressively expanding their influence on China’s “lower tier cities”, in a bid to capture this largely…