From yesterday’s Business week: “U.S. search-engine outfits are jumping into the Middle Kingdom’s surging online marketplace, sometimes buying a piece of local rivals. The search wars raging in the U.S. are spilling over to the Middle Kingdom. On June 21, Yahoo! ( YHOO ) debuted a Chinese-language search service called Yisou. That follows hard on […]
Read MoreThe Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a new research report on strategies for success in China. It is a very optimistic report. “China today is entering a new era. For foreign investors, it is no longer simply a cheap production platform or an incipient market; it is a market coming of age, and one […]
Read MoreLi Yongyan writes about the Chinese government’s hypocritical censorship policies, which ban “harmful” information for the masses but allows access for the elite in Chinese society, including foreigners. While foreign TV broadcasts from BBC and CNN are banned for the general population, for example, they are freely available for anyone who can afford a room […]
Read MoreChina has Canadian (or CANDU ) reactors. China has French reactors. China will soon have Russian reactors. And, of course, China has Chinese reactors. Want to know more about the statues of Nuclear Industry in China? Here is the Energy Information Administration (EIA) website which Includes Chinese Nuclear Industry Timeline and a Interactive Map of […]
Read MoreAfter being inaccessible for about 48 hours, Wikipedia opened up to mainland Chinese users again on June 17. During the ban, Wikipedia’s founder, James Wales commented on the event to Chinatechnews with following words: “By policy, Wikipedia is not a political site in any way. We are a general reference encyclopedia with a strong neutrality […]
Read More“Chinese Internet users got their second major search engine Monday with the launch of Yahoo’s Yisou service, which will compete with Google’s Baidu searcher. Yahoo China, the Chinese unit of the U.S. internet portal, said the launch of Yisou, which means “No. 1 search” in English, is the latest move in its efforts to become […]
Read MoreThomas Friedman just wrote this piece on New York Yimes yesterday. He started with:”If anti-Americanism is on the rise around the world, no one told the kids in the student visa line at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The quest among Chinese students for visas to study in America, say U.S. Embassy officials, has become […]
Read MoreThis is from Reuters: “China promoted 15 military and paramilitary generals on Sunday, including the top bodyguard of military chief Jiang Zemin, in a move seen by some analysts as an indication the former Communist party chief would not step down. Analysts said the promotions of the 15 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and People’s Armed […]
Read MoreThe Global Village of Beijing, an environmental organization, is advocating for Chinese citizens to live a “simpler” life – including reverting to the traditional practice of bike riding instead of buying more cars – in order to slow down the rapid environmental degradation in the country. The article states that: “Nine out of ten of […]
Read MoreThis is from Xinhua’s report: “Internet pact stresses orderly development ” “Chinese websites, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other Internet-related organizations across the country are being invited to sign a self-discipline pact designed to protect online intellectual property rights as well asprevent cyber crime, the spread of harmful information and unhealthy competition. ”
Read MoreI have just mentioned Dr. Jiang Yanyong at Many2Many, and now received this email from an old friend, Alan Gleitsman. Alan said in his email: ” Dr. Jiang Yanyong, a 72 year-old Chinese military surgeon and never a dissident in any conventional sense, has been apprehended by the Chinese government and, his family fears, may […]
Read MoreIn reviewing China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy in Asia by James Lilley, James Borton writes: “James Lilley, a former ambassador to China and agent with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was a Cold War soldier. Written with remarkable clarity and conviction, his memoir, China Hands, is about the span of […]
Read More“Torn between Chinese dot-com IPOs with hot growth prospects and a too-hot economy, investors don’t know whether they’re coming or going For anybody who has followed the roller-coaster world of Chinese Internet IPOs this year, the pattern is already distressingly familiar. Last week, Tencent Holdings, an instant-messaging outfit based in the southern Chinese city of […]
Read MoreThe author of this essay is an American who works in China for CCTV. Ann Condi is a pen name. Princeton professor Perry Link’s words: it is “the most penetrating analysis I have seen on the psychology of the...
Read MoreCNN’s China analyst Willy Lam wrote yesterday: “China’s generals have stepped up efforts to seek approval from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership for more funds and “faster war preparation” in response to moves by Taipei to secure sophisticated weapons from the United States. ” Taiwan’s cabinet has approved a budget of $18.2 billion for […]
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