Translation: Remembering a Narrow Escape
Last month on her QQ Kuaibao account, writer Li Juan shared her memory of a tense experience...
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LatestApple Plans to Deepen China Mobile Alliance
The Wall Street Journal reports from Beijing, where Apple CEO Tim Cook and China Mobile chairman...
Xiaomi Plans to Expand Into Southeast Asia
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, whose sales in China this year have surpassed Apple’s,...
Apple, China Mobile Sign Deal to Offer iPhone [Updated]
The Wall Street Journal’s Lorraine Luk and Daisuke Wakabayashi report a long-anticipated...
How Has Xiaomi Leapfrogged Apple in China?
The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Mozur checks in with founder Lei Jun of smartphone maker...
No, China is NOT Unblocking Facebook in Shanghai
Discrediting the recent South China Morning Post news that Beijing plans to lift Facebook ban...
China to Lift Facebook Ban Within Shanghai Trade Zone
Following Sheryl Sandberg’s trip to China earlier this month, Beijing announced its decision to...
Solar-Panel Dispute Burns Hole in EU Strategy
At The Wall Street Journal, Matthew Dalton reports that the EU’s watering-down of plans for steep tariffs on Chinese solar-panels, which it claims are dumped in European markets due to illegal government subsidies, shows...
Li Keqiang Visits Berlin Amid Trade Tensions
On his first foreign tour as Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang is in Berlin today, where he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany, China’s largest European trading partner, will be the premier’s only stop in an...
China Threatens Retaliation for EU Telecom Probe
China stepped up its rhetoric against the European Union on Thursday, after Brussels threatened to open anti-dumping investigations into Chinese telecom equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE. From Paul Mozur and Wayne Ma of The...
Huawei Founder Breaks Silence
The elusive founder and chief executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, gave his first-ever press briefing on Thursday as he held court with local media in Wellington, New Zealand. From The Wall Street Journal:...
Netizens Defend Free Weixin Service
China’s three mobile telecom operators want to charge a fee to the more than 300 million users of Weixin, Tencent’s popular mobile chatting application, according to a government official. From Reuters: China’s...
In Barcelona, Huawei Tells its Story
Kevin O’Brien of The New York Times checks in from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Huawei executive Ryan Ding has offered the press something the telecom giant has often avoided – access to its decision...
Huawei Threat: Real or Overblown?
Writing for Foreign Policy, activist Trevor Timm argues that the U.S. government’s report accusing Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE of threatening U.S. national security interests “smacks of economic...
Is Apple’s Popularity Waning in China?
Reuters reported Friday that Apple’s share of China’s smartphone market almost halved in the second quarter: For the first time, smartphone shipments in China overtook feature phones in the second quarter, with local...
Who’s Afraid of Huawei?
Huawei (or “WAH-way” for those untrained in the ways of pinyin, according to a promotional video made by the company) is now the world’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment. The company,...
Apple’s Slowing Growth in China
The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson attributes Apple’s disappointing performance last quarter to economic slowdown in China and elsewhere in Asia: Apple future, to the extent that it can continue to be the world’s...
Russian and Chinese Companies 'Most Likely to Bribe'
Chinese businesses are seen as second only to Russia’s in their readiness to hand out bribes abroad, according to a new survey. Many of the industries in which China is particularly globally active, such as energy, mining...
