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…
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An Introduction to Alibaba’s Employee Ranking System
6 min read. LinkedIn published its own list of “top companies in China that employees want to work for” in 2019 based on a survey of its 40 million users.…
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…
What Will A Biden Administration Look Like For China?
6 min read. After a gruelling election, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared the 46th Presidential and Vice Presidential elections respectively by major news outlets in the United States…
The Success of Live Commerce in China: Will it be a Hit in the West?
4 min read. Live commerce, also known as the combination of live video streaming and ecommerce to sell actual products, truly began in China in 2016 with the launch of…
German Companies Double-down on Tech Investment in China during 1H 2020
5 min read. Declining GDP growth, trade war, and negative media coverage – any outside observer of China’s economic relationship with the world and especially the state of multinational enterprises…
Introduction to E-Commerce
5 min read. In 2013, China overtook the United States (US) to become the world’s largest market for e-commerce. E-Marketer predicts Chinese consumer spending on retail e-commerce to reach USD…
Escalating US-China Tensions: An Opportunity for SEA?
6 min read. In the past decade, China has continually gained influence in Southeast Asia (SEA). This was the top finding of a recent survey published by the Center for…