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Building Trust in China—an interview with Jared Ward of Luminous

I had the great pleasure to be invited to talk with Jared Ward of Luminous and the OPS Unfiltered podcast. Great conversation about China and doing business there and other places in ASEAN. Here's a link. Enjoy! David Dayton on the OPS Unfiltered Podcast. Or watch on Youtube.

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Is it now safe(r) to go to China?

TLDR: Yes, it's physically safe, but that's not what most people are worried about. This week the US State Dept. lowered the Travel Advisory from 3 (reconsider travel) to 2 (exercise increased caution). So of course this raises the question: Is China demonstrably safer this week

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SRI Shorts—learn to live with contradictions

China is where I learned that two things can be right at the same time. More importantly, it's where I realized that being able to mentally handle and professionally manage active contradictions was the best way to deal with rapid change and stark cultural differences present in China.

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SRI Shorts—China’s New Visa Rules

China is offering 30 days visa-free travel (for some)! This is great news, but does it change travel in China? Um… not really. But it’s a step in the right direction.

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Chinese Foreign Policy Primer

If you weren’t sure about how China conducts foreign policy, this week’s news could be a primer for you. In addition to bogus disease numbers (see below), monetary and political influence at WHO,  China also threatened an editor in Nepal, threatened to retaliate against Czech companies in China,

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The "New" China Threat

Here is the challenge, presented by Huawei to the world: If you think we're a company of (potential) spies and a security threat, then publicly prove it! Here is a not so polite, and rather hostile answer. But an answer that I factually don't disagree with.

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The CCP & US Policy on Chinese Immigration and Espionage, Part III--Epilogue.

This is an epilogue written in the months since the original article. Part I with the original article is here, Part II with the editor's comments is here.Increasingly, Chinese outside of China are expressing feelings of “uncomfortableness” about their perceived foreignness. The trade war is said to

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The CCP & US Policy on Chinese Immigration and Espionage, Part II--Editor's Discussion

UPDATE 10.12.18: From the article, Google's China Problem is America's China Problem: Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at Hoover, told me: “If you understand how China operates, it would be shocking to the point of disbelief if they were not in an organized fashion

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Update on Part 1 of CCP, US Immigration, Espionage, etc.

Since I posted on Wednesday the world has published a ton of articles all agreeing with my position. OK, they aren't responding to me, we just all happen to be writing about the same topic. But it’s nice to know that the opinion that I developed in

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The CCP and US Policy on Chinese Immigrants and Espionage. Part I

The following is an article that I was asked to submit to a journal, and the following posts will detail the subsequent review process that ultimately led to my withdrawal of the submission. I feel that the article was thoughtful but certainly needed some help and direction. You’ll see

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Adaptation vs Innovation? Maybe it’s the wrong question.

One of the critiques of China is that it doesn't have a creative, innovative domestic business environment. But two recent articles made me question whether that is really necessary, or even advisable, for China or other countries trying to play catch up to the US. (I don’t

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National Security and Chinese Businesses

National security fears.With two large Chinese projects being halted or terminate in the US this last month (ANT and Huawei), the specter of Chinese state sponsored corporate espionage was center stage. US and Chinese analysts are all pointing to a “trust gap” in the US with Chinese investors. Specifically,

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Questions about how do deal with a Global China (in Hong Kong)

I love to listen to the witty and very knowledgable banter of Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn over at the Sinica Podcast on SupChina. I’ve been listening to these guys for years now—long before they started SupChina when it was still hosted at Pop-up Chinese (and also

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Readings and other Conversations

Over the last month in Shenzhen not only have I been blessed to have a very cooperative and generous host company allow me to observe their daily work, but I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to interview another 15-20 individuals, foreign and Chinese, about their own personal experiences with

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What's the Difference Between a Duck? (AKA: Nonessentialized Chinenessness)

What’s the Difference Between a Duck?When I was a kid my dad used to always joke around and ask me this question. We’d be in the car or at dinner and he’d get serious and look me in the eyes and then say, without any hint

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5 Years Later...Back Home in Shenzhen.

After a few years in school, being back in Shenzhen, where I lived for almost a decade, has been an enjoyable readjustment. I moved back into our own home in Futian and now conduct PhD research in an office very close to where my own office was a few years

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Xi vs the Pope

President Xi and the Pope both arrived in the US this week. Landing on opposite sides of the country, their arrivals couldn’t have been more different. The Pope, great by President Obama with a bow and hand-kiss at the airport, was welcomed with all the pomp and circumstance

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Chinese Middle Class Values...anyone? Anyone?

This is an older post, from 2015, that I just found in a drafts folder today (2018) and thought I should post anyway. I wondered how much has changed in the ensuing 3 years? One of the things that continues to intrigue me about incredible rise of China is a

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Ah, the memories; The Made in China Diary

Wow. Wish that I'd thought of this! (h/t Wired Magazine) Kudos the to (Swiss) authors/photog's that did though. Great idea. Some really good shots of "what it's really like to manufacture in China;" everything from shops set up in the

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Is China a Threat? Part 20457948571-048571

Last month I was given a copy of an email from the local head of a national political party in the US with an all too common sentiment—China is a threat! We need to limit our international exposure via govt fiat ASAP. I won’t share the source or

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When 5%-10% more is a bargin

The background on this great idea comes from Wired Magazine. But more than the great idea, and a Utah company to boot, the look into their issues dealing with China are insightful. From the article: Davis has run billion-dollar divisions of global conglomerates with integrated supply chains and the

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The more things change...

...the more they stay the same.Shocker: Official and unofficial numbers for China 2012 economy are not the same!!! And, hold your breath…..the official numbers not only aren't accurate they've erred on the side of making last year's downturn less dramatic and the

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Creativity--It's not that they can't...

...They've just never been asked to do it before.Interesting article in the WSJ about the lack of creativity in Asian graduates. But I think that the article misses the point.The conclusion is that Asian grads aren't creative because they don't have he

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How to get off the negotiations carousel.

Great post by Dan over at CLB again today. Talking about the difficulty in getting your supplier/manufacturer to give you and then stick with a fixed price. Basically, it's not going to happen. But there are things that can be done about it to save both your

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Culture of Copy

The money quote from Bianca Bosker, the Author of Original Copies, in an interview with the WSJ China Real Times Reporter James T. Areddy: "In the West there is a sense that copy is very taboo. It’s a terrible thing. It’s a sign of a lack of