Twenty years ago China was already an export juggernaut but it was difficult to see it becoming a consumer powerhouse. It did not have credit cards, banks were backward in their technology, there was no credit rating system, and above all there was no delivery system for internet shopping – no UPS or FedEx. Well […]
Middle Kingdom
Shifting Back To The East …
That chart at the bottom is from a recent Economist article. It’s interesting how economic power has shifted first from East to West and now back to the East. In the early centuries China and India were the largest economies, then Europe became preeminent. America’s turn came in the 1900s and with the exception of […]