While there is a plethora of bearish news there may be opportunities for real-estate agents in the US (and elsewhere) to sell homes to Chinese looking to invest or live abroad (two links below about that).  Figuring out the e-book market may have some opportunities still but that seem like a tough nut to crack (despite the big investments).  Also, if you have experience in M&A perhaps you can figure out how to get some of the low performing steel SOEs to merge…

Thanks to James and Sinocism for several links:

• More Chinese cities likely to curb auto sales: industry group from Reuters
• Fatal Misperception: How Unsafe Is Chinese Food? from Council on Foreign Relations (even if the food is not treated with pesticides, the water supply likely does contain similar substances — it’s nearly a no-win situation here)
• Chinese E-Books Platform Gets $110 Million in Funding From Goldman Sachs and Temasek from Tech in Asia  (mention them in Chapter 2)
• And the Newest Country to Court Rich Chinese Immigrants Is… from The Wall Street Journal (unsurprisingly it is greece)
• Advice for Small Fish in China’s Real Estate Market: Swim Fast from The Wall Street Journal
• Undetected river pollution sparks criticism from China Daily
• Liberal Peking University professor threatened with expulsion from South China Morning Post
• An inferno of unprofitability from The Economist (steel industry, mentioned in several chapters too)
• Foreign Capital Flows out of China on Expectations of End of QE from Caijing (will this lead to a drop in real estate prices?)
• Crucial Backing for ‘Bank’ of Alibaba from The Wall Street Journal
• In New Forecasts, Even China Bulls Slow to a Trot from The Wall Street Journal
• Air pollution cuts life expectancy by 5.5 years in China from CNN|Money (here is the actual study from PNAS)
• Chinese buyers flood U.S. housing market from CNN|Money (good deals for them, smart shoppers)
• China inflation picks up, limits room for policy easing from Reuters (looking at my grocery receipts it never seemed to stop…)
• Now on Taobao: Outsourced Care for Grandma from The Wall Street Journal (markets in everything)
• Car horns used 40 times more often in China than in Europe from South China Morning Post (very believable, my apmt is near a street and horns blare throughout the entire day)
• Why Nearly Half of Asiana Passengers Were Chinese from The Wall Street Journal (SOEs and heavy regulated flight routes)
• China’s Genetically Modified Food Fight from The Wall Street Journal (anti-sciencism run amok, if you don’t want to eat GMO, don’t eat it — but the burden of proof falls on those making the claim)