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Has China Reached The Tipping Point On Software Piracy Yet? 2008-03-06 08:50:40 Software piracy is stifling innovation, claims a recent study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance. Having little confidence that their intellectual property rights are protected, software developers have been reluctant to develop new products from the China
market. ZDNet Asia, always a good source for technology news, also points out that reducing piracy can create [...] Read more:Software
Bad Molecule: Baxter Points Finger At China Supplier In Heparin Case 2008-03-05 14:34:54 The U.S. company whose blood thinner was responsible for as many deaths and injuries at home is now claiming that the problem originated with a China
supplier. Most companies that have taken a hit due to quality problems in China have been a bit more politic, and so have the traditional media outlets that report [...] Read more:Baxter
, Points
, Supplier
Japan Steps Up Quality Efforts in China Following Gyoza Scare 2008-03-03 15:42:16 Japan Tobacco is establishing a quality control center in China
, which will provide frequent checks of food suppliers there. Japan Tobacco imports about US$100 million worth of frozen product from China each year. For those who don’t know what this is about, a shipment of frozen gyoza from China to Japan was found to contain [...] Read more:Japan
, Quality
, Following
, Scare
China Mobile Wants iPhone 2008-03-03 09:36:21 China Mobile
’s CEO, Wang Jianzhou, has just publicly expressed interest in the iPhone
. Though formal talks have not yet been established, China Mobile has given the old winkity-wink to Apple through a leak to the press. Hey, but isn’t that what wire services are for?
“‘We have not yet officially begun talks [...] Read more:China
Heparin Case: China Says Responsibility For Quality Lies With Importing Nations 2008-03-02 10:00:29 While claiming that it attaches high importance to quality standards, China
has claimed it bears no responsibility in assuring quality for pharma products leaving its shores. As many as 400 illnesses and 21 deaths have been linked to tainted heparin produced in China. The FDA went to China only after the news of contamination broke, [...] Read more:Quality
, Responsibility
, Importing
, Nations
The 2,900 Club: 90% of China’s Billionaires Are Children Of Senior Cadres 2008-02-27 11:19:35 A report on China
’s “bureaucrat-capitalist class” explains that nearly 90% of the economy’s billionaires – or about 2,900 - are the children of senior cadres. Collectively, the group is said to have assets worth over CNY2 trillion.
These billionaires are predominantly in: finance, international trade, property development and equities.
Where are they? Here is the breakdown: Guangdong, [...] Read more:Children
The Spielberg Effect: China Agrees To Resume Human Rights Talks 2008-02-27 09:36:26 No one could be more proud than Steven Spielberg
. With only one letter to the organizers of the games, he managed to accomplished more than untold numbers of leaders have over decades.
Spielberg has expressed regret over his attempt to link politics to the games, but look how things turned out: China
has stepped up humanitarian [...] Read more:Resume
, Rights
Guangdong Manufacturers: “The Reports Of Our Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” 2008-02-26 03:16:01 Ten years ago, there was plenty of talk about how growth on the coastal cities was doomed. Everyone was looking to the second- and third-tier cities, and Sichuan Province was really where it was at, brother. Taking a page from American history, the Chinese government had urged everyone: “Go West!”
The latest buzz is a push [...] Read more:Manufacturers
Apple in China, Part 2: Could Apple Help Reduce DVD Piracy? 2008-02-24 09:00:02 As you may have guessed, I am an Apple
customer, which is another way of saying that I belong to a religious cult. It’s not as bad as it sounds. There are some benefits…
Recently, I started renting movies through iTunes (which is also available on virus-compatible PCs). It’s an amazing experience. You scroll through [...] Read more:China
Apple in China, Part 1: Apple Takes An Unfair Beating On iPhone 2008-02-20 10:30:49 China Mobile announced last month that it ended talks with Apple
on a deal involving the new iPhone
, and analysts came out in full force to say it was Apple’s problem. Some went as far as to accuse Steve Jobs of misfeasance and suggested that he brush up on his China deal-making skills. Didn’t he [...] Read more:China
Food Safety: China Goes Big, USA Goes Small - And The Imported Candies Now Contain Metal 2008-02-18 11:47:38 CLB.com raised an issue I’ve been meaning to cover with its recent post on food safety. For anyone who has not been following, last year Trader Joe’s announced it was phasing out single-food products sourced in China
.
The Chinese themselves are concerned about food safety, and interestingly enough they look to products made by larger companies [...] Read more:Safety
, Small
, Candies
, Contain
, Metal
Baxter Blood-Thinner Case: Who Didn’t Check What? 2008-02-17 14:42:04 A few newspapers have reported on the contaminated blood-thinner news by leading with the information that the facilities had not been inspected by the FDA. I’m going to leave alone the issue of facility inspections and instead reference an e-mail that I received from an old friend who happens to be in corporate finance [...] Read more:Baxter
, Blood
, Check
Google Report Claims 67% Of All “Drive-By Downloads” Originate In China 2008-02-17 14:26:10 Google has surveyed the Internet using its web crawlers, and they have reported 67% of all malicious websites are based in China
. These are websites where a visitor may find itself attacked by a “drive-by download”.
“It costs next-to-nothing to register a web domain in China and service providers are often slow to shut down malicious [...] Read more:Google
, Downloads
Mandarin Language Tools: The New Technology Wave 2008-02-17 10:47:09 The NY Times just published an article about Mandarin
training in the modern era. It’s a brave new world with all sorts of new gadgets. If you’re studying Chinese, you can now network with language speakers via webcam, or else you can download podcasts from the Internet. When I was studying Mandarin, the [...] Read more:Tools
, Technology
“The New Bugaboo, Low Prices”… Revisited 2008-03-11 06:45:44 Of all the posts that have gone up at this site, none has received more internet action than one titled, “The New Bugaboo, Low Prices
”. Because we believe in recycling just as much as the next guy - and because it would be fun - I’m posting it again. From TheChinaGame.com - Aug 22, 2007:
Consider [...] Read more:Revisited
Domain: TheChinaGames.com 2008-03-11 06:19:10 In addition to this website, we own TheChinaGames.com (that’s with an “s” at the end).
There was at one time some interest in developing the domain into a separate website focused on sporting events in China, and interest was perhaps not in vain. Sports is going to be a huge market for the economy, and the [...]
Approval Denied: Sexy “Lust, Caution” Star Banned From TV Commercials 2008-03-10 08:53:33 Chinese censors allowed “Lust, Caution
” to play in Chinese movie theaters at the end of 2007, but not before cutting over 13 minutes of sexy screen action. The actress that we saw in so many compromising positions, Tang Wei, was looking to star in commercials for Pond’s, the skin care brand owned by Uniliver. Those [...] Read more:Approval
, Banned
, Commercials
‘Quality Fade’ in South China Morning Post And… Counterfeiting 2008-03-10 06:35:47 An article titled “Quality
Fade Comes Into Play” ran over at SCMP this past weekend. Written by Jacqueline Tsang, the article details points from an article on quality fade that I wrote for Wharton. What made the piece fun anyway were a few quotes from Richard Zawtiz, the founder of Tangle - that plastic, twisty [...] Read more:South
, China
, Morning
China Has ‘Hurt Feelings’ Over Bjork - NY Times 2008-03-08 20:56:34 A headline in the New York Times
art section on Mar 8 read: “China
Hurt By Bjork
”. That’s an interesting one. Can a singer on the Z-list take a superpower down a notch with just a song? For those who didn’t catch thew news, during her recent Shanghai performance, the Icelandic singer incorporated a brief [...] Read more:Feelings
Tibet: What’s Coming Next? 2008-03-14 19:25:10 It seems that all hell is breaking loose in Tibet
. It’s been nearly 20 years since Lhasa has seen such violence and rioting, and Chinese political leaders must at this very moment be contemplating their next move. NPR’s Anthony Kuhn ran an interesting segment, pointing out one detail worth a mention:
“…when the last wave of [...] Read more:Coming Next
The 2008 China Games And The ‘Björk Cork’ 2008-03-13 21:46:31 Nice article in today’s International Herald Tribune by Howard French. While China
insists that the world not make politics out of the Games
, China in fact sees everything related as political.
“Foreigners who persist in touching upon what are quaintly known in China as sensitive issues, thereby putting the government on the spot, risk being treated [...]
Baseball In China 2008-03-16 23:09:45 It was MLB’s big debut in China
this weekend, with the San Diego Padres beating the LA Dodgers in an exhibition match. It had the feeling of history in the making, according to some. An article posted at MLB.com, which included player impressions of China, was an instant classic:
“On the bus back from the Great [...]
Makeover: Vanity Fair Article 2008-03-16 05:38:11 An article in Vanity
Fair makes for some very good reading. It’s written by William Langewiesche. Here’s a piece:
Cleaning up for the Olympics is a time-honored tradition. The Germans, for example, swept Berlin’s Gypsies into prison camps and temporarily took down the signs banning Jews from public places. They even loosened their restrictions on homosexuality, [...] Read more:Article
, Makeover
China Wants More 2008-03-15 21:48:39 China wants its foreign companies to do more, the Shanghai Daily has reported. About 3,000 people were surveyed, many of whom work for large multinational corporations. About 90% of those who responded felt that MNCs had made a contribution to China’s development, but only around 22% found that these same companies were doing enough [...] Read more:China
John Fraser on Tibet 2008-03-15 13:54:01 The Chinese: Portrait of a People was written by John Fraser
, a journalist with Canada’s Globe and Mail back in the 1970s. While it’s been some time since I looked through the book, when riots broke out in Lhasa, I thought of it. Some excerpts, in case they are of interest.
On how the [...] Read more:Tibet
Alibaba Stock Tumbles 2008-03-18 02:01:36 Alibaba shares have fallen to below their IPO price. It took a few months, but, as we suggested, it was inevitable. This IPO was the largest of its kind, and it was promoted heavily by the media. At the very height of the hype - when everyone was asking how Jack Ma did it - [...] Read more:Stock
China Leadership: Patient, Subtle and Sophisticated? 2008-03-21 12:48:18 In a recent blog post over at TheAtlantic.com, James Fallows described Chinese government leaders as (1) patient, (2) subtle and (3) sophisticated. TCG respectfully disapproves of this view, but how about you?
What adjectives do you think best describe leadership in China
today? Read more:Leadership
, Subtle
China Slams Western Media 2008-03-20 23:57:17 Western media is biased. It doesn’t understand the situation. But please keep out, if you don’t mind! From an editorial at People’s Daily:
Probably the whole world is on tiptoes, eager to find out what’s going on in Lhasa and other Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China
. While we highly appreciate the efforts of the global media [...] Read more:Western
Taiwan Elections 2008-03-20 15:10:56 Someone asked me recently who I thought would win the upcoming election in Taiwan
. I hadn’t been paying attention to it, really, but it struck me that we haven’t heard much news out of China. Since Beijing was so quiet on this one, their least favorite party - the DPP - was probably going to [...] Read more:Elections
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