America starts making China great again on January 29, 2017 The Chinese New Year’s holiday, approaching this weekend, is traditionally a time of gift-giving and celebration in the Middle Kingdom. This year, no one is likely to be celebrating more than President Xi Jinping. On Monday, Xi’s U.S. counterpart signed an order withdrawing American support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The move fulfilled one of […]
Is Japan too scared to succeed? on November 7, 2016Of all of the scary economic data that routinely streams out of Japan, this statistic should terrify you: $800 million. That’s the total value of venture capital deals completed in Japan in 2015, according to accounting firm Ernst & Young. Compare that to $72 billion in the U.S. and $49 billion in China. Even tiny […]