Beijings unique street life under constant siege on May 15, 2017You can’t get too attached to things in Beijing. Your favourite restaurant, cafe, bar, park bench, row of trees, basketball court could be there one day and obliterated the next. The current wave of destruction in the Chinese capital is working its way through the back streets where bars and restaurants are being ?-ed (Chai-ed […]
How worried is China by the prospect of Brexit? on July 3, 2016Business people here in China had broadly convinced themselves that they were ready for the result of the EU referendum, whichever way it went. But now that there has been a vote for Brexit, the reality is beginning to sink in. In Tianjin, at the annual gathering of influential figures from across Asia, there’s a […]