Could electric vehicles help recharge China’s sluggish car market? BYD hopes so as it announces Denza, the new marque for electric vehicles produced by its 50:50 JV with Germany’s Mercedes-Benz.
BYD is making a lot of noise about its electric vehicles and clearly hopes a prestigious western partner will win Chinese buyers over to EVs. (continue reading…)
China makes a lot of solar panels but most of them currently go for export causing western rivals to complain that Chinese over-production and price competition is destroying their once healthy markets.
But that situation could soon change, says Mark Pinto, corporate CTO at Applied Materials, the US maker of chip manufacturing equipment, in this WSJ article.
By GEOFF NAIRN
China is a land of opportunity for business, but it is also a land of counterfeiting and intellectual property theft
Few consumers get fooled by street markets selling luxury handbags at knock-down prices. But there are many cases where it is difficult for buyers to distinguish counterfeit goods from the real thing. As more manufacturing shifts to China, businesses in the west need to learn how to value their intellectual property and protect it [...]