US-China Tech Rivalry Creating ‘Splinternet’
Last year, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned of “a bifurcation into a Chinese-led internet and...
foreign IT companies
Activists Ask Google: What’s Changed Since 2010?
A backlash has mounted in recent weeks following leaked news that Google has been preparing search...
Anger Grows over Google’s China Plans
Following a leak that revealed plans by Google to reenter China with a censored search engine,...
China’s Tech Firms Flip “Copycat” Image
The conventional view of China’s tech industry has long been that local companies mimic...
State Media Outlets Are Crushing It on Facebook
Since Hu Jintao’s push to promote external propaganda in the late 2000s, Chinese leaders...
Twitter Users Concerned over New China Position
Both Badiucao and Rebel Pepper reflect Chinese Twitter users’ concerns over the...
Google DNS Poisoning Follows Brief Unblocking
Percy Alpha, an independent Internet freedom researcher and co-founder of GreatFire.org, observes...
Mark Zuckerberg Goes to Beijing
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Beijing this weekend, where he enjoyed a...
Facebook Suspends Exiled Writer Liao Yiwu’s Account
The Wall Street Journal reports that exiled Chinese writer Liao Yiwu’s Facebook account has...
Netizens Reflect After China Blocks Gmail
Landed in Beijing to find pollution isn't too bad today but Gmail can't download on phone...
Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With Censorship
While in Hong Kong for the annual Wikimania conference, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales told the Wall Street Journal that he will not censor his site in order to enter China: Since early June, in the lead-up to the anniversary...
Will Facebook Enter China?
As Facebook is set the launch the most-anticipated IPO in years, observers are wondering if and when the company will attempt to enter the China market. From BBC: Analysts say the longer Facebook takes to enter China, the harder...
More Than Just Great Firewall Awaits Facebook in China
Reuters analyses Facebook’s chances for success if the company does decide to pursue the China market and concludes that they are slim: Facebook said last week it was contemplating re-entering China, the world’s...
China's Apple Fans Lament Cult Figure Jobs' Resignation
Yesterday’s announcement by Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple, that he was retiring effective immediately had a ripple effect that went far beyond Cupertino. Apple products have gained a wide following in China in...
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...
Donald Clarke: Who Owns the Chinese Internet?
In an article in Caixin, George Washington University Law Professor Donald Clarke looks at the contractual role of foreign IT companies operating in China: An article recently published in Xuexi Shibao (Study Times), an organ of...
Clashing Values Could Trip Facebook as it Tiptoes Toward China
The San Jose Mercury News looks at the many hurdles facing Facebook as it approaches the China market, including competition from local companies which were willing to gather to sing revolutionary songs to commemorate the...
China’s Social Network RenRen is no Facebook
An article in Forbes compares Facebook, which is set to launch in China, to Renren, the Chinese equivalent: For starters, Goldman Sachs estimates Facebook is worth $50 billion worldwide. RenRen, which is hoping to beat Facebook...
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