Blog by Jim James

Six months to the date of arriving in Beijing I have been rewarded by becoming the proud proprietor of a Chinese Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise, and departed for Singapore midweek with lots of good news for the team, and with an excited Judy for whom this was her first trip outside of China. On th...

As I sit here listening to Chinese rock I realise that the question regarding creativity and the Chinese is entirely subjective, but this week I have become increasingly aware of the issue of ‘creativity’ and the debate of whether Chinese are capable of original thought. In his thought provoking bo...

This week I possibly did more networking than a presidential candidate, and by Sunday evening felt as though I just wanted to park myself on the 19th green at the marvellous Riverside Golf Course links.  Since arriving in Beijing I have been making great efforts to get linked into the business...

The Chinese have a saying that ‘"from chaos comes opportunity," and this has proven to be the case for those able to overcome the obstacles created by the government. I am now feeling increasingly confident that EASTWEST China is starting to operate as a functional business and that life i...

02 July 2006 I feel as though I am swimming in a huge sea of change, the shifting sands of government regulation making navigation harder and the rising tide of inflation consuming my resources faster than I had hoped,  but as it is as far to swim for home as it is to shore, I keep the mental ...