Blog categorized as Doing business in China

The Morgan had an opportunity to celebrate the Royal Wedding at the invitation of the UKTI. She sat pride of place alongside an Aston Martin Rapide, Jaguar XJS and a JCB digger. HE Mr Sebastian Wood CMG was even tempted behind the wheel, joined by his wife Sirinat. There wasn't time for a quick spin...

Why the American PR agency model doesn’t work in China I have noticed over the past 12 months a couple of trends which appear to be gathering pace, and an article by WPP CEO Shelly Lazarus in Ad Age prompted my thinking about why the American PR agency model doesn’t work in China. It is an issue for...

Public relations firms in China face a lot of issues that might seem strange to their counterparts in other countries, like press-shy clients and reporters who want to get paid for writing stories. Jim James, a native of Britain who studied in Americ...

I’m brittle. Beijing. Shaving blades scratch and slash My nose bleeds The dried blood never leaves Early or late to bed My burning eyes always China red In the Beijing dust lies the future and the past Brittle Olympian, I will last. Today is my 43rd birthday. It is also the 4th anniversary...

Over lunch an English friend of mine asked whether I had noticed anything different about how I was being looked at by Chinese people; I wasn’t sure that I had but it was one of many comments on the rising tension that is building up in Beijing as Chinese see foreigners as undermining their national...