China’s Golden Shield: Is Cisco Systems Complicit?
In a pair of posts at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, Beth Van...
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U.S. Presses China on Technology Rules
China’s pursuit of full-spectrum digital control over the past year has involved promotion...
Microsoft Antitrust Probe is “Business As Usual”
Following the confirmation this week of a Chinese antitrust probe into Microsoft, Xinhua assured...
U.S. Court Clears Cisco in China Human Rights Case
A U.S. federal court has dismissed a case against computer networking giant Cisco involving...
Is “Snowden Effect” Hurting U.S. Firms in China?
For Reuters, Matthew Miller reports that some U.S. technology firms may face headwinds in China as...
Chang Ping on Media Censorship and Its Future
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
Cisco Sued for Role in Chinese Crackdowns
The Sydney Morning Herald reports a lawsuit filed in June in the US, in which technology giant Cisco is accused of complicity in China’s suppression of political dissent. Daniel Ward, of US law firm Ward & Ward, has...
Foxconn to Build Army of Robots
Foxconn plans to address problems with increasingly expensive and sometimes suicidal workers by replacing many of them with robots, increasing the number it uses a hundredfold over the next three years. Xinhua reports: The...
New York Times: Enabling China
An editorial in the New York Times calls for legislation restricting the work of American technology companies in China: After Yahoo handed over data five years ago about a Chinese journalist who was condemned to 10 years in...
Cisco Camera Case Seen Through Political Lens
A Wall Street Journal article last week sparked criticism of Cisco and other American tech companies for their participation in Chongqing’s new surveillance network. Critics argue that the system could be used for...
Cisco, HP Poised to Help China Keep an Eye on Its Citizens
As Microsoft draws fire for agreeing to censor search results in its new collaboration with Baidu, The Wall Street Journal reveals the roles of technology firms including Cisco and HP in a new surveillance system in Chongqing....
Cisco Accused of Helping China Track Falun Gong Followers
Falun Gong members have filed a federal lawsuit against Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA charging that they worked with the Chinese government to track and monitor Falun Gong members. From Mercury News: Several followers of the...
Cisco Systems Denies Online Censorship Role in China
From AP: A Cisco Systems Inc. executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China’s goal to “combat” a religious group did not reflect the company’s views on...
Cisco Systems Document Cites China Censorship Goal
From AP: A Senate subcommittee on Tuesday is expected to question a Cisco Systems Inc. executive about an internal 2002 document that includes a reference to censoring “hostiles” in describing the Chinese...
Yahoo Isn’t The Only Villain – Peter Navarro
From Los Angeles Times: Which company has committed the greater evil? Yahoo Inc. helped send a reporter to prison by revealing his identity to the Chinese government. Cisco Systems Inc. helps send thousands of Chinese dissidents to prison by selling sophisticated Internet surveillance technology to China. If bad press is to be the judge, the […]
Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Vodaphone Display Some Cojones – Rebecca MacKinnon
From RConversation: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Cisco and others have been getting a lot of heat over the past year for colluding with human rights violations and state censorship in countries like China. Fortunately, three of those four companies have found the wherewithal to do more than just duck and cover. A couple of months ago […]
China Telecom chooses Cisco as primary supplier – Dow Jones Newswires
From Dow Jones Newswires, via MarketWatch: Cisco Systems (CSCO) said China Telecom selected it as the primary supplier as it expands its business network. The San Jose computer network company said China Telecom will install nearly 400 Cisco 12416 routers as part of the expansion. The network, called CN2, covers nearly 200 cities in mainland […]
Cisco to spend in China on back of robust growth – Xinhua
From Xinhuanet: Riding on its robust growth in China, global Internet networking giant Cisco Systems is set to invest more in the market with a large funding pool at its disposal, according to James Richardson, Cisco’s global senior vice-president in commercial business. “Cisco has around US$15 billion in cash, a very strong balance sheet it’s […]
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