China Currents 2011 Issue Volume 10 Number 2
An Interview with Scott Ellyson, East West Manufacturing, Inc. Ten years ago, Scott Ellyson and Jeff Sweeney co-founded East West Manufacturing (www.ewmfg.com) in Atlanta to bring U.S.-based companies both the cost-savings and speed-to-market offered by Asian manufacturing, along with the…
The first three articles in this issue of China Currents each point out some of the unusual, and perhaps unexpected, characteristics of China's stunning economic development, and the following two pieces discuss ways to profit from them – for a…
Introduction The soft landings program developed originally by the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA 2011) was designed to help a company from one country land softly into the market of another country through a local incubator. [1. Acknowledgement: The paper…
The agreement between China and Vietnam on the process to guide the settlement of maritime issues signed in October 2011 may be a first step in easing tensions over the contentious issue of who controls the islands in potentially oil-rich…
Introduction One of the most controversial macroeconomic issues of this decade is the question of how China has run such massive trade surpluses and has accumulated so much in foreign reserves over the past 20 years. Generally, developing countries tend…
In the waning days of their colonial existence, Hong Kong and Macau were like mismatched cousins. Hong Kong was a roaring entrepôt of commerce while Macau was a sleepy backwater sustained mainly by gambling. Fourteen years after Hong Kong was…