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Jun30	China's Preferred Choice of Express Delivery - FEDEX Bill Belew June 30, 2006 Know More: All about China 2.0, All about China Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and services from cell phones to business hotels to airlines. How well do you think you know China? Fifth category - What is China's preferred choice of Express Delivery? 3. DHL (15%) 2. China Post EMS (19%) and 1. FEDEX (44%) I usually send things by attachment to an email. As for big things, I reckon I don't trust anyone to get it there. Which express delivery service do you use? go to 老毕看中国 Posted at 3:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun30	China is a Friend and Ally Bill Belew June 30, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe China is a dependable ally or friend... Continue Reading Posted at 1:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Human Rights Record connected to Business? Bill Belew June 30, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Should Access to US Markets be linked to China's Human... Continue Reading Posted at 12:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun29	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 5 Prada Bill Belew June 29, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 3:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Domestic Airlines - Air China Bill Belew June 29, 2006 Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and services... Continue Reading Posted at 2:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Potential Areas of Concern with China (part 5) Bill Belew June 29, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun28	Naked Protest at Chinese Factory in Shenyang Bill Belew June 28, 2006 The Chinese Daily reported today about this woman launching a nude protest in order to get her money back from her factory employer. The 26 year old woman was a migrant worker. She came. She worked. And she lefft without... Continue Reading Posted at 7:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 6 Gucci Bill Belew June 28, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 3:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Digital Cameras - Canon Bill Belew June 28, 2006 Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and services... Continue Reading Posted at 2:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Potential Areas of Concern With China (part 4) Bill Belew June 28, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun27	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 7 - Hermes Bill Belew June 27, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 2:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Desktop Personal Computers - Lenovo Bill Belew June 27, 2006 Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and... Continue Reading Posted at 2:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Potential Areas of Concern (part 3) Bill Belew June 27, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun26	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 8-10 Bill Belew June 26, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 3:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Cell Phones - Nokia Bill Belew June 26, 2006 CEC Online Chief Executive China magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of... Continue Reading Posted at 1:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	America's Potential Areas of Concern with China (part 2) Bill Belew June 26, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun25	Home Depot Has Bad Feng Shui Bill Belew June 25, 2006 Chinese shoppers like to, make that love to, handle the merchandise before buying it. I am embarrassed by it, but my wife does it ALL the time. I usually head for the book department to read something while she does... Continue Reading Posted at 3:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	$95.2 million for a Picasso!??! Bill Belew June 25, 2006 I have been wrong before. Once I thought I was wrong when I was really right. I am about to be wrong again. why would anyone pay $95 million for an art piece? I read once that there was a... Continue Reading Posted at 2:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Potential Areas of Concern with China Bill Belew June 25, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun23	China's Online Ads Continue to Soar Bill Belew June 23, 2006 Motorola knows it. Tiffany & Co. knows it. Proctor & Gamble knows it. Hugo Boss knows it. China has well over 100 million Internet users. And if you take out the one-third or more that are chain smoking young men... Continue Reading Posted at 3:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China is a Military Threat Bill Belew June 23, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is How do you view China's emergence as a military power... Continue Reading Posted at 1:21 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Human Rights Record - Improving or Declining? Bill Belew June 23, 2006 our groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Has Human Rights Situation in China improved over the previous... Continue Reading Posted at 12:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun22	Investing in China Netcom Bill Belew June 22, 2006 China Netcom Group is home based in Hong Kong. And, China Netcom is the top provider of fixed lines phones in 10 Chinese provinces. Like anywhere, there is a growing demand for broadband DSL high speed internet. Dial-up is out,... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The World Has More Millionaires Bill Belew June 22, 2006 Last year the number of millionaires in the world grew by more than 500,000. I wasn't one of them. But, I think my neighbors were in the group. Presently there are about 8.7 millionaires in the world and many of... Continue Reading Posted at 2:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Impressions of China (part 5) Bill Belew June 22, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe that CURRENTLY the relationship between US and... Continue Reading Posted at 12:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun21	China Aims for the Moon Bill Belew June 21, 2006 China is aiming for the moon. Really the moon...moon. China announced that it plans to put a man on the surface of the moon by 2024. Gee, I'll be ...dead...probably, unless I can live to be a hundred and... China... Continue Reading Posted at 3:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Impressions of China (part 4) Bill Belew June 21, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe that CURRENTLY the relationship between US and... Continue Reading Posted at 1:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Real Estate Market Bill Belew June 21, 2006 Unruly throngs outside of luxury housing. Flying elbows and chaos. Pent-up deman, rising incomes and scarce affordable housing have driven up prices. It sounds like Silicon Valley to me. But, it's not. It's China. And NOT just the big cities.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun20	American Impressions of China (part 3) Bill Belew June 20, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe that the relationship between US and China... Continue Reading Posted at 1:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Another Number One for China - Legal Music Downloads Bill Belew June 20, 2006 It is predicted that China will become a major market for legal music downloads with annual revenues of $222million by 2008. But for this to become a reality China will have to get tough on copyright, patent and trademark laws.... Continue Reading Posted at 1:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Shanghai Cooperation Organization Bill Belew June 20, 2006 China has formed a club of authoritarian-led countries and Iran wants to join. China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (whew! those are hard to spell) make up the group so far Pakistan and Mongolia as well as India have... Continue Reading Posted at 12:51 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun19	American Impressions of China (part 2) Bill Belew June 19, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is - How favorable is your impression of China. The results... Continue Reading Posted at 2:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Trade Surplus Hits New Record Bill Belew June 19, 2006 As if exporting $12 billion more than they imported wasn't enough. China decided to go for $13 billion. Last month China beat the record they established in October of last year. And october is still 4 months away. Last year... Continue Reading Posted at 1:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Diabetes in China and India Soars Bill Belew June 19, 2006 Well, here is something the US has been able to export without problem - diabetes. Okay, I know it's not solely the US' fault; it is the responsibility of the individual to determine what goes in their body. But..China now... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun18	American Impressions of China Bill Belew June 18, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is - How favorable is your impression of China. The results... Continue Reading Posted at 2:53 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Basketball Links Chinese from around the World Bill Belew June 18, 2006 Chinese are not all small and dainty. Think Yao Ming. My father-in-law sits glued to the TV watching the NBA playoffs and now the finals. And he has to stretch to make 5'2" tall. But basketball is loved in China.... Continue Reading Posted at 1:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Businesses are Encouraged to Invest Abroad Bill Belew June 18, 2006 According to the People's Daily the rules will change on how much renminbi Chinese business people can exchange for foreign currencies. China has more foreign exchange reserves (Over $1 billion) than any other country in the world. On July 1st, State... Continue Reading Posted at 12:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun16	Bio-services in China is Another Big Business Opportunity Bill Belew June 16, 2006 The more I write about China the more I realize there is NOTHING that isn't a big business opportunity in China. Add bio-services to the list. China has made the necessary gains in technology, expertise and business savvy. A couple... Continue Reading Posted at 3:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Nearly Killed in Taipei, Taiwan Bill Belew June 16, 2006 I wrote about how the smog in China's big cities has become so dense that at east one city's air is blamed for killing a marathon runner. It caused me to remember a time when I was nearly killed when... Continue Reading Posted at 2:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Opinions of China - 10 years later Bill Belew June 16, 2006 In 1994, Committee of 100 commissioned a Wirthlin study to find out what percentage of Americans had a favorable opinion of China. The results were less than half - 46% - of Americans had a favorable opinion. However - 10... Continue Reading Posted at 12:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun15	Opinion of America Drops Everywhere Except China and Pakistan Bill Belew June 15, 2006 The Washington Post Pew Research Center polled people in 15 different countries. Nearly all of them have worse opinions of the US now than they did a year ago....and they didn't like the US before. Spain's positive view of the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:47 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hong Kong Marathon Kills Runner Bill Belew June 15, 2006 China tops so many lists that I am not surprised to find it on the top of this list, too. China's cities rank as some of the worst for air quality. In fact, some are blaming the Hong Kong air... Continue Reading Posted at 3:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Mobile buys a stake in Phoenix Satellite of Hong Kong Bill Belew June 15, 2006 China Mobile is one of the world's largest cellular phone service providers and China's largest. That means it has money. It just spent $180 million to buy one/fifth (19.9%) of Phoenix Satellite Television of Hong Kong. Phoenix Television is China's... Continue Reading Posted at 12:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun14	Beijing 2008 Games Bill Belew June 14, 2006 Corruption, decadence, wrongdoing, mistresses.... These are the things the vice mayor in charge of overseeing the building of 31 venues for the 2008 games were accused of. His wrongdoing apparently was great enough that he was relieved of his duties.... Continue Reading Posted at 4:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Not About to Back-Down on Censoring the Net Bill Belew June 14, 2006 Sergei Brin of Google recently stated that he felt that Google had compromised its principles by agreeing to China's censorship laws. I think Google compromised their principles LONG before that when they started placing "paid advertisements" above their search results.... Continue Reading Posted at 2:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cathay Pacific Goes Shopping in China Bill Belew June 14, 2006 Cathay Pacific Airways reached a deal to buy out Hong Kong Dragon Airlines for $1.04 billion. If they offered me that much, I would sell them anything they want, too. Well, almost anything. Cathay now has much greater access to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Immigration - Positive Development or Serious Threat Bill Belew June 14, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - Americans were asked - Is the influx of Chinese immigrating to America a positive development or a serious threat? The... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun13	Solar Power In China Bill Belew June 13, 2006 There are some 30-40 million families or 200 million people in China that now have solar water heaters in China. It's a kind of keep-up-with-the-Wangs kind of thing. Peer pressure exists in China, especially among the poor farmers. If Wang... Continue Reading Posted at 3:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Snoopy - a Real Hot Dog with China's Young Ladies Bill Belew June 13, 2006 I took a Chinese girlfriend of mine to a BASKIN & ROBBINS 31 Flavor ice cream store when the two of us were in Japan. 31 Flavors had a special going on - buy an ice cream and get a... Continue Reading Posted at 2:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Babies are Coming to America, too Bill Belew June 13, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders and the general public - Do you know someone, friend or family member, who has adopted a Chinese baby? This question intrigued... Continue Reading Posted at 12:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun12	India's Outsourcing domination is being challenged by China Bill Belew June 12, 2006 India is by far the largest outsourcing market with a predicted 169,000 offshore call center staff by 2010, nearly double the present number of 95,000. But call centers in Eastern Europe are expected to triple in that same amount of... Continue Reading Posted at 3:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Warms Up to Solar Industry Bill Belew June 12, 2006 Will the list never end of what China has the most of, does the most of, is growing the quickest at? The number of rooftop solar water heaters in China exceeds that of ALL the rest of the WORLD combined!... Continue Reading Posted at 2:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Should the US take a more active role in Cross Strait Relations? Bill Belew June 12, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of the American general public and American opinion leaders - Should the US take a more active role in Cross Strait relations? Interestingly enough... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun11	One President Bush, Two President Bush....Three Potatoe Bill Belew June 11, 2006 When I showed this to my wife last night, she said this would NEVER happen in China. Chinese politicians just would never allow themselves to be made the subject of laughter. But, don't we all need to be able to... Continue Reading Posted at 6:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Committee of 100 Bill Belew June 11, 2006 I have mentioned the Committee of 100 survey many times in this blog and will mention it again. It has presented numerous insights into American attitudes toward China and the Views on China and US-China Relations. Here are some facts... Continue Reading Posted at 4:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Takes on India on India's Home Turf Bill Belew June 11, 2006 According to this report China is making inroads into India's domestic market. Imagine that, China can produce textile raw material and export it to India CHEAPER than India can do it on its own. The increase in imports to India... Continue Reading Posted at 1:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	First Thing that Comes to Mind for "China" # 1- 4 Bill Belew June 11, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "China?" 4. Human/religious/civil rights - 16% (this is the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 9	Chinese Customers are Treasured Bill Belew June 9, 2006 The US Chamber of Commerce is on a tour of the US called China Business 2006 Initiative. The purpose of the tour is to encourage exchanges between the little guys. They want to pair up US business executives, legal experts,... Continue Reading Posted at 2:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Help Wanted - Chinese Accountants - PricewaterhouseCoopers Bill Belew June 9, 2006 My wife has a good friend who has been looking for a job. She is Chinese...my wife and the friend who is looking for a job. Her friend is a CPA and is looking for an accountant position. There is... Continue Reading Posted at 1:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	First Thing that Comes to Mind for "China" # 5 - 9 Bill Belew June 9, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "China?" 9. S.A.R.S was mentioned by 1% (where's... Continue Reading Posted at 12:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 8	"Universal Pen" Creator - Wang Jiang Bill Belew June 8, 2006 "Universal Pen" creator Wang Jiang is a product of Microsoft's Research Lab in Beijing. Wang was a reluctant convert to the MS lab. He had to give up his position as a professor of psychology at Zhejiang University. In the... Continue Reading Posted at 2:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	$650 Billion Tech-services Industry Must Rethink says Infosys CEO Nilekani Bill Belew June 8, 2006 I read that it used to cost about $70 on average for a computer geek to walk from cubicle to cubicle to install the needed software on individual PCs at different work stations. Now, IBM has 200 people in Toronto... Continue Reading Posted at 1:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Most Admirable Traits - # 1 - 4 Bill Belew June 8, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - Americans were asked - What are the most admirable traits of the Chinese and their culture? Here are numbers four... Continue Reading Posted at 12:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 7	China and the Catholic Church Bill Belew June 7, 2006 The Chinese government and the Catholic Church don't get along. Intrigue and suspicion are at the root of the distrust. I am speaking of the Catholic church. You never know what those guys are thinking or going to do next...again... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Zhang Ya-Qin - China's Multimedia Whiz Child Prodigy Bill Belew June 7, 2006 Zhang entered one of China's top universities before he was 13 years old. Let's see when I was 13 I was still waiting to go through puberty. Zhang replaced Lee Kai-fu, (I have written quite a few blogs about Lee)... Continue Reading Posted at 2:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Microsoft Research Asia Sets the Standard Bill Belew June 7, 2006 The first high-level research center opened by Microsoft was in Cambridge, England. The second was in Beijing. The research and development center that was established in Beijing has served as a model center for the company as it expands to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Chinese Most Admirable Traits # 5 - 9 Bill Belew June 7, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - Americans were asked - What are the most admirable traits of the Chinese and their culture? 9. One in 25... Continue Reading Posted at 12:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 6	So What About ZhongHuaRising Bill Belew June 6, 2006 Think business in Asia and the first thing that comes to mind is China. I was first tasked to write about business in all of Asia. In the end I wrote about China, China and China. Everyone wants to know about... Continue Reading Posted at 8:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Author Introduction - Bill Belew Bill Belew June 6, 2006 I came in on the tail end of the baby boom behind two older brothers and two older sisters, 3 of which were WWII babies. Meaning, I am old enough to have been around the block a few times, but... Continue Reading Posted at 8:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Jun30	China's Preferred Choice of Express Delivery - FEDEX Bill Belew June 30, 2006 Know More: All about China 2.0, All about China Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and services from cell phones to business hotels to airlines. How well do you think you know China? Fifth category - What is China's preferred choice of Express Delivery? 3. DHL (15%) 2. China Post EMS (19%) and 1. FEDEX (44%) I usually send things by attachment to an email. As for big things, I reckon I don't trust anyone to get it there. Which express delivery service do you use? go to 老毕看中国 Posted at 3:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun30	China is a Friend and Ally Bill Belew June 30, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe China is a dependable ally or friend... Continue Reading Posted at 1:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Human Rights Record connected to Business? Bill Belew June 30, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Should Access to US Markets be linked to China's Human... Continue Reading Posted at 12:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun29	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 5 Prada Bill Belew June 29, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 3:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Domestic Airlines - Air China Bill Belew June 29, 2006 Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and services... Continue Reading Posted at 2:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Potential Areas of Concern with China (part 5) Bill Belew June 29, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun28	Naked Protest at Chinese Factory in Shenyang Bill Belew June 28, 2006 The Chinese Daily reported today about this woman launching a nude protest in order to get her money back from her factory employer. The 26 year old woman was a migrant worker. She came. She worked. And she lefft without... Continue Reading Posted at 7:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 6 Gucci Bill Belew June 28, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 3:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Digital Cameras - Canon Bill Belew June 28, 2006 Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and services... Continue Reading Posted at 2:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Potential Areas of Concern With China (part 4) Bill Belew June 28, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun27	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 7 - Hermes Bill Belew June 27, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 2:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Desktop Personal Computers - Lenovo Bill Belew June 27, 2006 Chief Executive China Magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of products and... Continue Reading Posted at 2:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Potential Areas of Concern (part 3) Bill Belew June 27, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun26	China's Top Ten Knock-Offs # 8-10 Bill Belew June 26, 2006 A knock-off, of course, is a fake version of the real thing. And, I am guilty, too. I once bought a couple of pirated DVDs (not quite the same) in hopes of having something to watch on a 16 hour... Continue Reading Posted at 3:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Preferred Choice of Cell Phones - Nokia Bill Belew June 26, 2006 CEC Online Chief Executive China magazine did a survey in May and June of this year asking execs for their picks of Executive brands in China. Nearly 2,500 execs responded to the survey and weighed in on 19 categories of... Continue Reading Posted at 1:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	America's Potential Areas of Concern with China (part 2) Bill Belew June 26, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun25	Home Depot Has Bad Feng Shui Bill Belew June 25, 2006 Chinese shoppers like to, make that love to, handle the merchandise before buying it. I am embarrassed by it, but my wife does it ALL the time. I usually head for the book department to read something while she does... Continue Reading Posted at 3:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	$95.2 million for a Picasso!??! Bill Belew June 25, 2006 I have been wrong before. Once I thought I was wrong when I was really right. I am about to be wrong again. why would anyone pay $95 million for an art piece? I read once that there was a... Continue Reading Posted at 2:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Potential Areas of Concern with China Bill Belew June 25, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Please list the areas you consider the most signifcant problems... Continue Reading Posted at 12:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun23	China's Online Ads Continue to Soar Bill Belew June 23, 2006 Motorola knows it. Tiffany & Co. knows it. Proctor & Gamble knows it. Hugo Boss knows it. China has well over 100 million Internet users. And if you take out the one-third or more that are chain smoking young men... Continue Reading Posted at 3:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China is a Military Threat Bill Belew June 23, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is How do you view China's emergence as a military power... Continue Reading Posted at 1:21 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Human Rights Record - Improving or Declining? Bill Belew June 23, 2006 our groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Has Human Rights Situation in China improved over the previous... Continue Reading Posted at 12:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun22	Investing in China Netcom Bill Belew June 22, 2006 China Netcom Group is home based in Hong Kong. And, China Netcom is the top provider of fixed lines phones in 10 Chinese provinces. Like anywhere, there is a growing demand for broadband DSL high speed internet. Dial-up is out,... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The World Has More Millionaires Bill Belew June 22, 2006 Last year the number of millionaires in the world grew by more than 500,000. I wasn't one of them. But, I think my neighbors were in the group. Presently there are about 8.7 millionaires in the world and many of... Continue Reading Posted at 2:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Impressions of China (part 5) Bill Belew June 22, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe that CURRENTLY the relationship between US and... Continue Reading Posted at 12:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun21	China Aims for the Moon Bill Belew June 21, 2006 China is aiming for the moon. Really the moon...moon. China announced that it plans to put a man on the surface of the moon by 2024. Gee, I'll be ...dead...probably, unless I can live to be a hundred and... China... Continue Reading Posted at 3:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Impressions of China (part 4) Bill Belew June 21, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe that CURRENTLY the relationship between US and... Continue Reading Posted at 1:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Real Estate Market Bill Belew June 21, 2006 Unruly throngs outside of luxury housing. Flying elbows and chaos. Pent-up deman, rising incomes and scarce affordable housing have driven up prices. It sounds like Silicon Valley to me. But, it's not. It's China. And NOT just the big cities.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun20	American Impressions of China (part 3) Bill Belew June 20, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is Do you believe that the relationship between US and China... Continue Reading Posted at 1:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Another Number One for China - Legal Music Downloads Bill Belew June 20, 2006 It is predicted that China will become a major market for legal music downloads with annual revenues of $222million by 2008. But for this to become a reality China will have to get tough on copyright, patent and trademark laws.... Continue Reading Posted at 1:55 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Shanghai Cooperation Organization Bill Belew June 20, 2006 China has formed a club of authoritarian-led countries and Iran wants to join. China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (whew! those are hard to spell) make up the group so far Pakistan and Mongolia as well as India have... Continue Reading Posted at 12:51 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun19	American Impressions of China (part 2) Bill Belew June 19, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is - How favorable is your impression of China. The results... Continue Reading Posted at 2:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China's Trade Surplus Hits New Record Bill Belew June 19, 2006 As if exporting $12 billion more than they imported wasn't enough. China decided to go for $13 billion. Last month China beat the record they established in October of last year. And october is still 4 months away. Last year... Continue Reading Posted at 1:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Diabetes in China and India Soars Bill Belew June 19, 2006 Well, here is something the US has been able to export without problem - diabetes. Okay, I know it's not solely the US' fault; it is the responsibility of the individual to determine what goes in their body. But..China now... Continue Reading Posted at 12:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun18	American Impressions of China Bill Belew June 18, 2006 Four groups in America were polled about their impressions of China - 1. General Public 2. Opinion Leaders 3. Congressional Staff 4. Business Leaders One question they were asked is - How favorable is your impression of China. The results... Continue Reading Posted at 2:53 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Basketball Links Chinese from around the World Bill Belew June 18, 2006 Chinese are not all small and dainty. Think Yao Ming. My father-in-law sits glued to the TV watching the NBA playoffs and now the finals. And he has to stretch to make 5'2" tall. But basketball is loved in China.... Continue Reading Posted at 1:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Businesses are Encouraged to Invest Abroad Bill Belew June 18, 2006 According to the People's Daily the rules will change on how much renminbi Chinese business people can exchange for foreign currencies. China has more foreign exchange reserves (Over $1 billion) than any other country in the world. On July 1st, State... Continue Reading Posted at 12:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun16	Bio-services in China is Another Big Business Opportunity Bill Belew June 16, 2006 The more I write about China the more I realize there is NOTHING that isn't a big business opportunity in China. Add bio-services to the list. China has made the necessary gains in technology, expertise and business savvy. A couple... Continue Reading Posted at 3:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Nearly Killed in Taipei, Taiwan Bill Belew June 16, 2006 I wrote about how the smog in China's big cities has become so dense that at east one city's air is blamed for killing a marathon runner. It caused me to remember a time when I was nearly killed when... Continue Reading Posted at 2:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Opinions of China - 10 years later Bill Belew June 16, 2006 In 1994, Committee of 100 commissioned a Wirthlin study to find out what percentage of Americans had a favorable opinion of China. The results were less than half - 46% - of Americans had a favorable opinion. However - 10... Continue Reading Posted at 12:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun15	Opinion of America Drops Everywhere Except China and Pakistan Bill Belew June 15, 2006 The Washington Post Pew Research Center polled people in 15 different countries. Nearly all of them have worse opinions of the US now than they did a year ago....and they didn't like the US before. Spain's positive view of the... Continue Reading Posted at 8:47 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Hong Kong Marathon Kills Runner Bill Belew June 15, 2006 China tops so many lists that I am not surprised to find it on the top of this list, too. China's cities rank as some of the worst for air quality. In fact, some are blaming the Hong Kong air... Continue Reading Posted at 3:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Mobile buys a stake in Phoenix Satellite of Hong Kong Bill Belew June 15, 2006 China Mobile is one of the world's largest cellular phone service providers and China's largest. That means it has money. It just spent $180 million to buy one/fifth (19.9%) of Phoenix Satellite Television of Hong Kong. Phoenix Television is China's... Continue Reading Posted at 12:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun14	Beijing 2008 Games Bill Belew June 14, 2006 Corruption, decadence, wrongdoing, mistresses.... These are the things the vice mayor in charge of overseeing the building of 31 venues for the 2008 games were accused of. His wrongdoing apparently was great enough that he was relieved of his duties.... Continue Reading Posted at 4:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Not About to Back-Down on Censoring the Net Bill Belew June 14, 2006 Sergei Brin of Google recently stated that he felt that Google had compromised its principles by agreeing to China's censorship laws. I think Google compromised their principles LONG before that when they started placing "paid advertisements" above their search results.... Continue Reading Posted at 2:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cathay Pacific Goes Shopping in China Bill Belew June 14, 2006 Cathay Pacific Airways reached a deal to buy out Hong Kong Dragon Airlines for $1.04 billion. If they offered me that much, I would sell them anything they want, too. Well, almost anything. Cathay now has much greater access to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Immigration - Positive Development or Serious Threat Bill Belew June 14, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - Americans were asked - Is the influx of Chinese immigrating to America a positive development or a serious threat? The... Continue Reading Posted at 12:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun13	Solar Power In China Bill Belew June 13, 2006 There are some 30-40 million families or 200 million people in China that now have solar water heaters in China. It's a kind of keep-up-with-the-Wangs kind of thing. Peer pressure exists in China, especially among the poor farmers. If Wang... Continue Reading Posted at 3:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Snoopy - a Real Hot Dog with China's Young Ladies Bill Belew June 13, 2006 I took a Chinese girlfriend of mine to a BASKIN & ROBBINS 31 Flavor ice cream store when the two of us were in Japan. 31 Flavors had a special going on - buy an ice cream and get a... Continue Reading Posted at 2:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Babies are Coming to America, too Bill Belew June 13, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders and the general public - Do you know someone, friend or family member, who has adopted a Chinese baby? This question intrigued... Continue Reading Posted at 12:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun12	India's Outsourcing domination is being challenged by China Bill Belew June 12, 2006 India is by far the largest outsourcing market with a predicted 169,000 offshore call center staff by 2010, nearly double the present number of 95,000. But call centers in Eastern Europe are expected to triple in that same amount of... Continue Reading Posted at 3:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Warms Up to Solar Industry Bill Belew June 12, 2006 Will the list never end of what China has the most of, does the most of, is growing the quickest at? The number of rooftop solar water heaters in China exceeds that of ALL the rest of the WORLD combined!... Continue Reading Posted at 2:06 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Should the US take a more active role in Cross Strait Relations? Bill Belew June 12, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of the American general public and American opinion leaders - Should the US take a more active role in Cross Strait relations? Interestingly enough... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun11	One President Bush, Two President Bush....Three Potatoe Bill Belew June 11, 2006 When I showed this to my wife last night, she said this would NEVER happen in China. Chinese politicians just would never allow themselves to be made the subject of laughter. But, don't we all need to be able to... Continue Reading Posted at 6:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Committee of 100 Bill Belew June 11, 2006 I have mentioned the Committee of 100 survey many times in this blog and will mention it again. It has presented numerous insights into American attitudes toward China and the Views on China and US-China Relations. Here are some facts... Continue Reading Posted at 4:13 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Takes on India on India's Home Turf Bill Belew June 11, 2006 According to this report China is making inroads into India's domestic market. Imagine that, China can produce textile raw material and export it to India CHEAPER than India can do it on its own. The increase in imports to India... Continue Reading Posted at 1:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	First Thing that Comes to Mind for "China" # 1- 4 Bill Belew June 11, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "China?" 4. Human/religious/civil rights - 16% (this is the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 9	Chinese Customers are Treasured Bill Belew June 9, 2006 The US Chamber of Commerce is on a tour of the US called China Business 2006 Initiative. The purpose of the tour is to encourage exchanges between the little guys. They want to pair up US business executives, legal experts,... Continue Reading Posted at 2:44 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Help Wanted - Chinese Accountants - PricewaterhouseCoopers Bill Belew June 9, 2006 My wife has a good friend who has been looking for a job. She is Chinese...my wife and the friend who is looking for a job. Her friend is a CPA and is looking for an accountant position. There is... Continue Reading Posted at 1:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	First Thing that Comes to Mind for "China" # 5 - 9 Bill Belew June 9, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "China?" 9. S.A.R.S was mentioned by 1% (where's... Continue Reading Posted at 12:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 8	"Universal Pen" Creator - Wang Jiang Bill Belew June 8, 2006 "Universal Pen" creator Wang Jiang is a product of Microsoft's Research Lab in Beijing. Wang was a reluctant convert to the MS lab. He had to give up his position as a professor of psychology at Zhejiang University. In the... Continue Reading Posted at 2:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	$650 Billion Tech-services Industry Must Rethink says Infosys CEO Nilekani Bill Belew June 8, 2006 I read that it used to cost about $70 on average for a computer geek to walk from cubicle to cubicle to install the needed software on individual PCs at different work stations. Now, IBM has 200 people in Toronto... Continue Reading Posted at 1:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Chinese Most Admirable Traits - # 1 - 4 Bill Belew June 8, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - Americans were asked - What are the most admirable traits of the Chinese and their culture? Here are numbers four... Continue Reading Posted at 12:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 7	China and the Catholic Church Bill Belew June 7, 2006 The Chinese government and the Catholic Church don't get along. Intrigue and suspicion are at the root of the distrust. I am speaking of the Catholic church. You never know what those guys are thinking or going to do next...again... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Zhang Ya-Qin - China's Multimedia Whiz Child Prodigy Bill Belew June 7, 2006 Zhang entered one of China's top universities before he was 13 years old. Let's see when I was 13 I was still waiting to go through puberty. Zhang replaced Lee Kai-fu, (I have written quite a few blogs about Lee)... Continue Reading Posted at 2:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Microsoft Research Asia Sets the Standard Bill Belew June 7, 2006 The first high-level research center opened by Microsoft was in Cambridge, England. The second was in Beijing. The research and development center that was established in Beijing has served as a model center for the company as it expands to... Continue Reading Posted at 1:31 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Chinese Most Admirable Traits # 5 - 9 Bill Belew June 7, 2006 The Committee of 100 survey that I have mentioned here in the past asked the question of American opinion leaders - Americans were asked - What are the most admirable traits of the Chinese and their culture? 9. One in 25... Continue Reading Posted at 12:28 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Jun 6	So What About ZhongHuaRising Bill Belew June 6, 2006 Think business in Asia and the first thing that comes to mind is China. I was first tasked to write about business in all of Asia. In the end I wrote about China, China and China. Everyone wants to know about... Continue Reading Posted at 8:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Author Introduction - Bill Belew Bill Belew June 6, 2006 I came in on the tail end of the baby boom behind two older brothers and two older sisters, 3 of which were WWII babies. Meaning, I am old enough to have been around the block a few times, but... Continue Reading Posted at 8:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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