Pacific Equity Partners' Tim Sims discusses his expectations for 2013 and China's impact on the economy.

Pacific Equity Partners' Tim Sims discusses his expectations for 2013 and China's impact on the economy.

Prashant Kumar, chief executive for Asian markets excluding India, China, Japan and Australia at advertising agency Universal McCann, discusses how his dot-com failure helped him refine his digital strategy.

Prashant Kumar, chief executive for Asian markets excluding India, China, Japan and Australia at advertising agency Universal McCann, discusses how his dot-com failure helped him refine his digital strategy.

Arun Balakrishnan, chief executive of Berkshireinsurance.com, an online insurance distributor, talks about the business in India.

Arun Balakrishnan, chief executive of Berkshireinsurance.com, an online insurance distributor, talks about the business in India.

Stan Abrams says: You might remember the trouble Nike got into back in October when some consumers alleged that it maintained different product quality and pricing standards for Chinese customers than with consumers in other nations. This is by no…

With total filtering (i.e., block) of the OpenVPN protocol in recent weeks in places like China, many users are wondering if this is the end for OpenVPN. What started in late October 2012 with only filterings of certain ports of…

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Foreign Policy says: Over the past decade, roughly 400 Chinese companies have listed their shares on U.S. stock exchanges. A few are multi-billion dollar state-owned enterprises, such as China Life, China Telecom, and PetroChina. More than 100 were so-called backdoor-listed…

The WSJ reports:

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The Atlantic reports: For much of the past decade, General Electric’s storied Appliance Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, appeared less like a monument to American manufacturing prowess than a memorial to it. The very scale of the place seemed to underscore…

James Fallows writes: Near the end of this year’s second presidential debate, Candy Crowley of CNN pointed out that iPads, iPhones, and other globally sought-after Apple products are all made in China. What would it take, she asked both Mitt…

INSTEAD reports: In May, Guo Jie, a cont…

Chris Devonshire-Ellis writes: Recent media attention has focused on a slowdown in China. The actual state of play in China that should be watched, though, is rather different. While residents of first and second-tier cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and…

Stan Abrams writes: You probably think this is a pretty easy case. This “Haager-Dasz” trademark was obviously filed in bad faith, and this local company should not be allowed to use it. This is yet another one of those trademark…

Econ Grapher writes at Seeking Alpha: The Chinese economy has slowed its rate of growth recently, but the drivers of this slowdown are known and relatively benign. Monetary policy tightening in 2010-11, along with regulatory measures to curb property speculation…