James Kynge
Former FT Bejing Bureau Chief
An old friend from college used to be the BBC correspondent for China for over 10 years (she is now a newsreader on BBC News 24). I asked her last year for her opinions on China and she recommended that I check out 'one of her old buddies', James Kynge, who had been FT correspondent for China.
James has since moved on to editing a specialist newsletter 'China Confidential'.
His current profile can be found here:
http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/james-kynge
James Kynge is editor of China Confidential, a research service on China at the Financial Times.
James has spent 16 of the last 28 years living and working in China, first as a journalist for the Reuters news agency, then for the FT as China bureau chief from 1998-2005. After that he headed up the Pearson group of companies in the People’s Republic until 2008.
His award-winning book China Shakes the World, published in 2006, was an international bestseller translated into 19 languages.
James is a regular speaker on China, with recent keynote addresses to investor conferences held by Goldman Sachs, UBS, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, CLSA and Standard Bank. Email James Kynge - -
Financial frailties might slow China’s growth
The investor delight that has greeted Beijing’s decision to remove the renminbi’s peg to the US dollar obscures a series of more worrying auguries for the country’s financial future
Are fears of China’s overheating overdone?
Though it is too early to call time on Beijing’s battle to tame its hot economy this year and forestall overheating, several trends suggest that the outlook for the second quarter is one in which cooling forms the dominant direction
China-US ties face challenge
The recent upsurge in trade with south-east Asia, Brazil, Africa and India may be enough to offset lost exports for Beijing, writes James Kynge
As a background to understand China, still an excellent source is his book:
'China Shakes the World' October 2006
You can get a great summary of it on C-SPAN, where there is a video of his presentation for his book tour given in Washington.
It is well worth taking the hour or so to get a really perspective insight into what is really going on in China.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ChinaSh
James Kynge talked about his book China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future, and the Challenge for America, published by Houghton Mifflin. Mr. Kynge discussed how China's hunger for foreign jobs, raw materials, energy, and food will reshape world trade, capital flows, and politics. He argued that China's weaknesses such as environmental pollution, crisis in social trust, weak financial system, and faltering government institutions will have disruptive effects on the world. After his presentation he responded to audience members' questions.
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