The Cheung Kong Sanya Forum will be held in Yalong Bay, Hainan on 9 January 2009 in cooperation with the Hainan Provincial Government. At last year's Sanya Forum an audience of over 800 Chinese entrepreneurs heard from Morgan Stanley Asia Chairman Stephen Roach, Nobuyuki Idei, former CEO of Sony, Charles Zhang representing Sohu.com and LG China CEO Nam-Kyun Woo, speaking on the topic of China's relation with East Asia.

Are foreign firms in China neglecting the risk of Chinese nationalism to their business? What should companies be doing, given the recent problems Carrefour and McDonalds have had? In this interview Associate Professor Teng Binsheng tells us that; the effects of nationalism' could be long-lasting, and he warns multinationals that if you 'see your China operation only as a subsidiary then you will not respond appropriately'. He also considers Chinese companies' strategy, and the likelihood of nationalism inhibiting the acquisition of Chinese companies by foreign firms. Read more here.

Nearly 40 Beijing-based HR directors from global corporations including Boeing, JP Morgan, Ericsson and Apple joined Cheung Kong GSB Professor Elizabeth Weldon at the Grand Hyatt Beijing for a discussion on "Making HR Strategic" on 27 June at the Grand Hyatt in Oriental Plaza, Beijing. Read more.

In general, it seems to be plausible that the weak can not defeat the strong. However, the Judo Strategy has disproved this by focusing on three elements: the balance principle, movement principle and the technique of leverage. Mengniu Dairy, one of the most powerful brands in China, created a second brand in Inner Mongolia through its advertising, thus applying the leverage principle, one of the elements of the Judo Strategy, successfully. Read more in Chinese.

Vietnam has traced a very similar economic development path to China. The communist country has adapted the successful experience of China in terms of economic reform since 1986, insuring that the Vietnamese economy has sustained the high-speed growth of about 7% per year thereby maintaining one of the most high-development economies in Asia and almost keeping up with China. However... Read more in Chinese.

Over the summer, Cheung Kong welcomes Accounting Professor Cheng Shijun from the University of Maryland, Yan Hong from the University of South Carolina, a researcher in asset pricing at Moore School of Business; Kevin Zhu, associate Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations at Rady School of Management of the University of California and Che Hai, Marketing Professor at the University of California at Berkeley among others to the Cheung Kong campuses in Beijing and Shanghai.

The Cheung Kong Open Lecture Series got hotter this summer with a lecture on Asian Economics by Bill Emmott on Wednesday 11 June. The first lecture of Mr Emmott's Beijing book tour, the Cheung Kong Breakfast Lecture saw the formerly global editor of The Economist discussing the economics behind the potential collisions and intersections between India, China and Japan which will shape the twenty-first century. Read more.

attracted vice presidents and leading country managers from firms including Coca-Cola, Siemens, BASF and Ecolab to discuss China in their companies' worldview. The evening reception took place in Shanghai on 30 June at The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai and enabled senior executives to reflect on alliances and the evolving strategic role of China as both a supply base and a consumer market.