Amid an EU debt crisis and slow U.S. recovery, the attention of many Chinese suppliers increasingly is turning towards the emerging economies of Africa and Latin America. This is the main finding of the recent survey "China exporters focus on emerging markets amid EU debt crisis" covering a number of...
It’s never easy dealing with delivery delays in your China sourcing project, feeling like you’re stuck in a corner with a factory that insists there is nothing they can do. Dealing with a delay in production with shipping and delivery deadlines can be stressful, and the causes of these delays...
Investment casting, which is also known as “lost-wax casting” is one of the oldest manufacturing processes still in use today. Originally, beeswax was used to create the form around which a ceramic mold would be created, but today the technique has advanced far beyond as now “high-technology waxes, refractory materials,...
A few days after my attendance at the US-China Business Council luncheon in Washington, I traveled to Ireland where, on February 19, Prime Minister Enda Kenny (“Taoiseach” is his title in Ireland) hosted a dinner in Dublin Castle to honor the visit of Vice-President Xi Jinping. I was privileged to...
There is an interesting and very topical debate going on on the viability of China's system of "state capitalism". Intelligence Squared will be hosting a debate entitled, "China Does Capitalism Better Than America", where Orville Schell and Peter Schiff will be arguing "For" and Ian Bremmer and Minxin Pei will...
On February 15th, 2012, Mr. Michael De Clercq, Founder and CEO of China Performance Group, a U.S. and China based company specializing in China sourcing advisory services since 1978, was among the nearly 600 persons invited to the luncheon in honor of the soon to be President of the PRC,...
On January 1, the EU extended its ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) to the aviation sector. It requires all airlines transiting or operating from or to a European airport to buy pollution permits in accordance to their actual level of pollution. The ETS is a crucial tool for the EU to...
It was exciting for me to attend the luncheon in honor of Xi Jinping in Washington on Wednesday. It was an opportunity to meet impressive people and reconnect with old friends. Carolyn Brehm, for example, whom I had met in China in the late seventies as a trail-blazing China expert...
