Is China Dubai Times a Thousand? – China Business

Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of “When China Rules the World,” he examines why the West often puzzles over the growing power of the Chinese economy, and offers three building blocks for understanding what China is and will become.

Unlike earlier European colonialists in Africa, China doesn't pretend to be on a civilizing mission as it invests in the impoverished continent. But many African workers see the practices of Chinese firms as part of the same tradition of foreigners looting the riches of the "Dark Continent"

Entrepreneurship is a subject under intensive study at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, and a friend in the school's communications department recently sent me a summary of a research project about entrepreneurial learning. Reading through it got me thinking about the relationship between building a business and self-education, in particular as it relates to China.

Chinese innovation is evolving in diverse ways and at an uneven pace across a range of different industries. Presented here are ground-level views from three of them: automobiles, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals.