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Download this podcast Length 17:29 Download audio file (20091115_bill_powell_pt1.mp3) Over the past 4 years of the China Business Podcast we’ve done many interviews with business people in China, typically leaders of companies or operations.  We’ve talked about the intricacies of doing business here, the opportunities and challenges, and specific strategies and tactics that have worked for them. Well, I would like to take a chance to back up a bit and view the China environment from a different perspective through an interview with someone who has been reporting on the action, not only in China but around the world.  Bill Powell is the senior writer for Time and Fortune magazines and is based in Shanghai.  We’ve known each other for a couple of years and he calls every now and then to bounce around some ideas and perspectives.  I have always appreciated his perspective and I thought he would make a great interview … and I was right. Here is part one of that interview …

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Download this podcast Length 6:43 Download audio file (20091106_safety_in_china.mp3) I was in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago for a conference.  I flew from Shanghai to LAX, landing there at about 11:00 in the morning.  By noon I was on the road in my rental car.  But it wasn’t until about 12:45, driving 70 mph on the 405, when I remembered that, in the U.S., the lines on the road are more than just mere suggestions … you are expected to stay between them and other drivers get upset when you drift aimlessly.  And some of those other drivers are armed and in a very bad mood too! My inability to cross traffic cultures aside, this raised in my mind an important point about safety in China … and frankly, things are still a bit loose here.  While it is better here in Shanghai than it used to be, cars don’t always stay between the lines, on their side of the street or even off the sidewalk.  If a driver doesn’t know where they are, they stop, wherever they happen to be, to consider their options.  They will stop in the middle of a street, an intersection or even the elevated highway.  They are not thinking about safety … they just don’t want to be lost.  While I admire their commitment to truth and knowledge, if they are not careful, they will soon know very well where they will end up … on a stainless steel table in the morgue! Pedestrians here will only stop at a crosswalk when there is a traffic cop to shame them into waiting the 12 seconds required for the light to turn.  And if you are on a bicycle, scooter or motorcycle, you can – and will – just go right through any intersection and any light.  Apparently, no traffic rules apply to you and cops, in general, won’t even try to stop you.  Its as if the presence of two wheels under you gives you superpowers of invisibility, Kevlar underwear and a get-out-of-jail-free card. So when I saw a New York Times article a couple of days ago titled “Salute All Cars, Kids. It’s a Rule in China”, I was intrigued.  In a nutshell, the article tells how Chinese education officials are encouraging children in the countryside to, literally, salute all cars on their walks to and from school … the purpose of which is to get these kids to pay attention to traffic and notice when cars are coming and to stay out of the way.  However, what I thought was going to be an article about improving traffic safety in China turned into a diatribe about the ridiculous edicts that come from the government here and the citizen outrage that often accompanies it.  The journalist cited numerous examples of silly government pronouncements – such as forcing people to purchase local cigarettes and liquor to inflate the state-owned enterprise sales figures – and the fact that ordinary Chinese are fighting back.  Fair enough … its good to see that voices are being raised against government silliness, something we’ve known how to do for a long time in the U.S. (however, we haven’t quite figured out how to actually END the government silliness). Unfortunately, what gets lost in article, buried at the very end, is that this edict, no matter how silly it may seem, actually seems to be reducing traffic accidents, at least in the mountainous village where the journalist did their interviews.  And that, I think, should be the point … in Shanghai where I live in MORTAL fear of hitting some kid that runs out into traffic, finding some way … ANY way … of teaching kids to respect traffic is OK in my book. Teaching civil behavior in China has been an issue ever since … well, ever since there was society here.  And China has one of the world’s oldest civilizations so you do the math … but its been awhile. Chinese leaders over the years, from Meng-zi to Mao, have been seen not only as political leaders, but social leaders as well. The big phrase in China over the past couple of years has been an encouragement from President Hu Jin-tao to work together to create a “he2 xie2 she4 hui4”, a “harmonious society.”  They started it leading up to the Olympics when they expected airplane loads of tourists to descend upon China and the leaders wanted to put on their best face … kind of like when you were a kid and were told to “go wash up, Aunt Marge will be here any minute” and you were dreading that dry, moth-bally kiss and the comments on how big you’d grown and isn’t it cute at how they grow up so fast, but really, can’t you do something about that acne and … well, no need to drag you into my adolescent nightmare.  Let’s just say that the Harmonious Society campaign has gone over about as well here. So maybe teaching kids to salute cars isn’t so silly after all.  And c’mon, admit it … isn’t EVERY country’s teaching of civil society a bit ridiculous?  Imagine you are sitting in the pitch meeting for the Woodsy the Owl campaign … “OK, J.R., here is how I see it … we don’t want people to throw garbage on the ground, right?  Makes the place look like a dump, right?  OK … so picture this … a grown man, dressed in a cheesy owl costume … and he says ‘Hoo … Hoo … Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute!’  Huh?  Huh? Is that great or what??”  Yea … I know I am guy of limited taste and erudition, but I don’t think I would have signed off on that one. I think that China is reaching a tipping point in matters of public safety and I really think that the government should – and CAN – step in and start to move public opinion and behavior.  Private cars are proliferating like bunnies in the dark here, but car seats for children are not and Junior is playing Red Rover between the front and the back seat.  Start putting some pictures at the car dealerships of what happens if Junior goes through the front windshield … guaranteed there will be a lock down pretty fast.  And maybe adults will actually start using their own seatbelts as well instead of just draping them across their laps whenever they drive by a policeman.  Seriously, taxi drivers do this all the time!  And people are still dumping garbage out their windows here.  Sure, there are tons of municipal workers running around with brooms to sweep the streets, but polluting for the sake of fuller employment doesn’t make sense to me. So I say, bring on the saluting if it helps teach kids to respect a ton of speeding death metal on the road.  Heck, get them to bow, curtsey and say “By your leave, m’lord”, I don’t care!  Just keep them from being human speed bumps!  And bring on the animals teaching moral lessons … in the U.S. we had our Woodsy, Smokey and G’ruff, China should have theirs.  Imagine the pitch meeting for that one, “OK … Wang … here’s how I see it.  We want to get people to stop throwing garbage on the ground … so let’s dress up some guy in a cheesy panda costume and have him say, ‘Polluters should be nearly extinct … like me!’  Huh?  Huh??  Is that great or what???” Yea … maybe I will just stick to Podcasting. Thanks again for listening … remember our motto: “In China, everything is possible but nothing is easy.”  We’ll see you next time on the China Business Podcast.

Download this podcast Length 16:50 Download audio file (20091106_kim_woodard_pt3.mp3) OK we are on to Part 3 of our interview with the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team, Kim Woodard.  In this section, we get down into the nitty-gritty of doing deals in China.  Enjoy!

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Download this podcast Length 17:54 Download audio file (20091102_kim_woodard_pt2.mp3) We are in the middle of a Podcast interview with Dr. Kim Woodard, the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team here in Shanghai.  Kim’s background includes setting up A.T. Kearney in the early days of China business and running his own boutique M&A consulting firm.  We brought Kim into Technomic to fill out our ability to provide end-to-end services for our clients doing deals in China.  While we saw a bit slow-down in 2009 for M&A in China (and, in fact, around the world), we see that things are really going to pick up in 2010 as companies are looking for aggressive growth opportunities. In this Podcast, I talk with Kim about the practical do’s and don’ts of doing deals in China …

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Download this podcast Length 17:03 Download audio file (20091028_kim_woodard_pt1.mp3) Unless you have been living in a hole or the dark side of the moon for the past year, your life has somehow been impacted by the global economic slowdown. You, a friend or a family member have lost a job; your municipal budgets are being cut; heck, your OWN budget is being slashed. It has not been a fun year, even here in China where things are still moving along at a pretty good clip. Though there are signs that things are getting better, I am not convinced we are totally out of the woods yet. But just because we have no guarantee of where things might be going, that doesn’t mean we can crawl back into our hole or retreat to the backside of the moon … no, we need to keep moving forward. And at Technomic Asia, that is exactly what we are doing. For many years, our consulting practice has been involved with foreign companies doing all kinds of alliances in China: from joint ventures to licensing to distribution to acquisitions, we have helped our clients put their alliance strategy together and then execute it. Up until about a year ago, we had been seeing a real upturn in acquisitions in China: the government rules for acquiring companies were loosening up and foreign companies were looking to China for new growth opportunities. Then the bottom fell out of the economy and companies put all that activity on hold. However, as things settle around the globe, multinational companies are looking for ways to grow and China seems a very good place to look for that growth. And one of the methods they are returning to is growth through acquisition. To capture this wave, we have brought in a new team member to Technomic Asia: Dr. Kim Woodard. Kim has had over 30 years of experience in China, first coming here in the 70s in the earliest stages of China’s opening to the West following Nixon’s “Ping Pong Diplomacy”. Armed with a Ph.D. from Stanford, Kim was soon a respected leader of foreign companies’ earliest advances into China. Kim helped establish A.T. Kearney’s China practice and then went on to help big names such as John Deere and AMP establish their China operations. Most recently, Kim had his own firm, Javelin Investments, to assist Western multinationals with acquisitions in China. We wanted to bring Kim in to Technomic Asia to give us the ability to provide a complete M Attached is the first in a series that we will roll out in the coming weeks. I hope you enjoy it!

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