Robert's Photo Gallery
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| Top: Here I am outside of the Bird's Nest Staduim, rooting for both China and the U.S.!
Bottom Left: My daughter and I got to pose with the mascot of the Olympic Games. Bottom Right: I had the opportunity to meet water polo silver medalist Rick Merlo in Beijing. |
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| Top: Some exciting pre-entertainment at the Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.
Bottom Left: From inside the Bird's Nest Stadium, my kids and I watched the women's 1500 meter final race. Bottom Right: Here I am with my two children in front of a military vehicle near the Olympic Stadium. Security at the Olympics was great, and vehicles like these were there just in case anything happened -- but nothing did. |
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| Top: Our China Strategy research analyst, Dr. Fei He (shown at far right), visits the Beijing headquarters of our successful education company along with the rest of our China Investment Tour Group Bottom Left: Our tour group enjoyed touring the headquarters of our Chinese real estate services company. Bottom Right: While in Hong Kong, I got the opportunity to meet John Yen, the manager of the new QDII mutual fund for China Merchant Securities' Hong Kong branch. |
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| Top: The exterior of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange building. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is one of Mainland China's two major exchanges. Bottom Left: The skyline of Shenzhen, an important economic center for China and one of the greatest boomtowns in the history of mankind. Bottom Right: Our China Investing Tour Group took a tour of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Workers rolled out a red carpet for our arrival! |
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| Top Left: Me with Ms. Hsu, the accomplished CFO of China Strategy's successful medical device manufacturer. Top Right: Ms. Hsu was kind enough to pose for a picture with our China Investing Tour Group. Bottom Left: Monitoring a tough patient in the company's showroom. Bottom Right: Me in the showroom of our medical manufacturer with Lisa Li, the head of investment relations for the company. |
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| Left: Our China Investing Tour Group listens to a presentation given by John Ho, the research director of China Merchant Securities, which is one of the top stock brokerage firms in Mainland China. Right: The entire tour group enjoyed our visit to China Merchant Securities. |
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| Left: Me with my wife and children in Shanghai. Right: Frances, our consumer trends analyst for China Strategy, poses for a picture. |
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| Robert with a reporter from one of China's leading financial newspapers. She interviewed him during his recent trip to Shanghai. |
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| Left: The glass-enclosed kitchen of Robert's favorite Sichuan restaurant, South Beauty. Right: Robert enjoying his meal at South Beauty. His dinner that night included asparagus on a bed of ice served sashimi style, spicy mushrooms, prime beef on stone, pan seared Chinese foie gras, wintermelon soup, and hot banana caramel dessert. His table came with a nice view of the Bund. |
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| Left: Robert hard at work in his hotel room. Right: The view from Robert's hotel room in Beijing. As you can see, air pollution is a big problem there. |
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| Tourism is now a growth industry in China. The famous terra cotta warriors near Xian are a great example of the shift we're seeing. During my first visit there six years ago, the tourists were mostly from other countries. I took these pictures when I returned there this past October and found that the tourists were mostly Chinese. |
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| Robert visiting the Sands Casino in Macau. |
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| Left: The Sands lit up at night. Right: The Hsu family during the last holiday season. |
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| Halloween 2005 in Shanghai. |
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Left: Robert meets with Tom Sun, Motorola's Chief China Representative. Right: Online gaming is incredibly popular in China. This is a student cybercafe in Beijing at midnight...and it's full!
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