by Daniel Garst | Jan 5, 2026 | Business Regulations, Chinese Business
As anyone who, as I did, spent years living in China knows, the country’s treasure trove of splendid monuments, like the Great Wall and Forbidden City, are juxtaposed against sea of things the Chinese call 假的 (Jiǎde), or “phony/fake.” The latter range from “Rolex”...
by Daniel Garst | Jan 5, 2026 | Chinese Business, Chinese Education
As anyone who, as I did, spent years living in China knows, the country’s treasure trove of splendid monuments, like the Great Wall and Forbidden City, are juxtaposed against sea of things the Chinese call 假的 (Jiǎde), or “phony/fake.” The latter range from “Rolex”...
by Daniel Garst | Nov 7, 2025 | Chinese Market
The string of recent largely disappointing economic data drops from China continued during the late summer, underscoring ongoing structural problems in the world’s second largest economy. While deflationary pressure eased a bit, factory gate prices continued their...
by Daniel Garst | Oct 3, 2025 | Chinese Education
From China Dream to Nightmare for College Educated Chinese Youth: Chinese children have long made the following compact while growing up. They bury their heads in their books and study like crazy from a very early age up through high school to get ahead in China’s...
by Daniel Garst | Sep 10, 2025 | Chinese Business
CHINA’S SUMMER OF ECONOMIC MISERY: “April is the cruelest month,” or so begins T. S. Eliot’s bleak modernist masterpiece poem, “The Wasteland.” After seeing China’s July 2025 economic data, Chinese Government officials would certainly beg to differ with Elliot. The...
