Is China somehow limited by its culture and design?

Explaining the many nuances of China to an uninformed friend is always difficult. There are so many angles on everything China that the "uninformed" cannot begin to comprehend the "expert's" divergent seemingly disconnected explanations. You know that old concept of yin-yang, the one represnting "dark-light", "good-evil", "hard-soft" and a whole slew of other opposing yet intertwined forces in the universe? Originating in China, there is no other place it describes better than China. Even today, China is pulled by many "contradictory" forces, the majority being internal.

 

Read the below referenced article

to better understand what my yin-rang of an introduction is referring to. The article's author Tom Doctoroff, a well-respected expert on Chinese pysche and Chinese consummerism, does an excellent job hightlighting some of China's internal difficulties and what it may bode for China's future.

Read and learn,

 

Chris

 

Excerpt from Huffington Post artical A Chinese Century? Not Quite by Tom Doctoroff: "In the narrowest sense, a superpower has the military might to force the world to acquiesce to hegemonic resolve (for example, the Soviet Union). Then there are economic superpowers that influence capital flows and global growth rates. When they struggle, the world does too. Finally, there are soft superpowers, nations that "own" universal values .... "

 

© 2003-2011 China Sage Consultants.

China Sage Consultants, the best first step for SME's to start selling in China.