The Zhongguo Institute

The China tide has come and gone, and with it the Zhongguo Institute is receding into history.

After assessing four startup companies in China, the three problematic ones have either poor management or poor marketing practices, while the successful one seems to be free from these thorny issues and it also appears to understand business operation as well as the target audience better.

The digital era accelerated the speed and the change of format of economic development, forming a lifestyle as well as mentality of today's Chinese community, focusing on convenience, diversity, satisfaction and quality.

Knowledge, research capabilities, free-thinking and diversity, are the soft-powers of Australia that make us uniquely different from the rest of the world, and Government must de-commoditize Australian universities and develop them as pillars of our soft power in the world.

We need to align ourselves with other transparent independent democracies, so that the Australian way of life, our intellectual freedom and our multi-cultural lifestyles are safeguarded for future generations.

Whether the Chinese experience in combating COVID-19 and containing the disastrous spread of this pandemic in rural areaa is applicable to other countries remains to be seen.

By this time next year, China's economic statistics will probably be looking even more ridiculously unlikely. Maybe even the Western media will stop believing them.

Alibaba's Singles Day shopping bonanza has hijacked Remembrance Day for half the world.

Xi Jinping has called China's process of reform and opening "a great revolution in the history of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation," but mostly it represents a return to the pre-1949 normal.

China’s wealthiest 100 individuals have more wealth than the poorest two-fifths of the country’s population combined. The country also needs to offer equal social benefits and educational opportunities for all of its citizens.