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Rule of Law: “Nice While It Lasted”
The US Congress has decided that Huawei is “a threat to US national security” by the US House Intelligence Committee. Huawei has issued a swift rebuttal. Apparently the US House Intelligence Committee...
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Book Review: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers
This book, by James McGregor, paints an interesting picture of what the failure to reform the Chinese political and economic systems has done to China by 2012. The title sums it up clearly: No Ancient...
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Chinese Companies Going Out, And The New Patent Wars
Patent filings by country in 2011 Source: The Economist For the past five years, the Chinese government has been encouraging Chinese companies to set up a foreign presence. In Chinese, this policy is...
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Officials in the Chinese government are well aware of the importance of IP (intellectual property), and they have reacted to this need in a typical top down fashion which marks the management style of...
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Why The Next Wave of China Startups Will Be Based Outside China
Apple’s newest store in BeijingSource: AppleInsider Ever since the Internet wave took off in the early 90s, the prevailing wisdom has been that to be successful in China, a company has to have a...
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China Says No To Most Westerners Working In China
Stop sign in Chinese In my previous article, I mentioned why the next wave of internet startups would be outside China. The flip side is how difficult Chinese government policy has made it for...
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
The book Tombstone, about the famine of 1958-1962 which occurred under the rule of Mao Zedong, has recently garnished considerable media attention. Here are some resources: BBC Radio Four has selected...
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Sina Weibo Makes Basketball Grannie Famous
Sina Weibo Logo One of the big differences between Sina Weibo and Twitter in the west is that in China, many people who have nothing to do with the internet have become well-known because of Sina...
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Book Review: China Fast Forward
When Tom Friedman is urging the Americans to follow China’s economic example, and the US mainstream media is all about how powerful China’s economy is, you know that it’s a good idea to take a closer...
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Book Review: China’s Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence – How CDB is...
Most of the prevailing wisdom about China declares that its economic success is due to a combination of government policy and foreign direct investment. This book, China’s Superbank:Debt Oil and...
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