While thumbing through the recent AT Kearney Report (review coming in a few days), I came across the above chart and knew it required its own post given all the chatter about China’s role in the recovery. The quadrant titles - Return of PAX Ame...

While I typically dedicate space for more socially focused pieces at Crossroads, this piece deserves special attention as quite often it is very easy to forget that many of those who built the...

1. Ge Honglin met IBM’s Great China President Zhou Weikun and his party IBM reintegrated the 9 provinces and 1 city in Southwest and Northwest regions, and put forward the “Grand West...

For those looking for good news on China’s property market, I am not sure if the recent JLL Property Market Monitor will be the document you were hoping for, but Steven McCrord’s Page 1 was...

While visiting Chengdu this week on some non-profit work, I took notice of the fact that the city of Chengdu has become a work zone. Reminding me of Beijing 8 years ago, the sky is absolutely...

Just a quick celebratory note to announce that after a nearly 18 months of planning, designing, funding, and pushing.. the first Hands On Chengdu Community Flower project has been delivered to site and installed. A lot of people to thank – Joyce,...

One of the things that fascinated me most about this city was its express delivery network, a service that I had used quite often to send letters/ packages across town, but paid little attention to as the people behind it seem quite decentralized and...

One of the most interesting things about living in China is the phenomenon where something in the expat community happens that lights off a series of emails and text messages meant to unite everyone to either do something … or to not do something. In...

When Walmart called 1000 CEOs to Beijing for a meeting last year, it was an event that many covered as being a turning point in sustainability. With China still working through the “Made in China” label, and the world entered the recession, Wal-Mart’s...

</p Riding the metro this morning to campus, I noticed something new. Line 2 had a new map... with 30 stops... Always cause for excitement, the ever expanding, ever evolving ,Shanghai metro system is perhaps the best EXPO driven infrastructure...