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To have a crisis of reputation--you need a good reputation first

For those of us that follow the daily news about China we may think that China is the center of the world

The elections are coming, the elections are coming!

Good balanced article from Bloomberg today on the cost of pegging or floating the Chinese Yuan. The article discusses the pros and cons for both sides of the Pacific, something that you rarely see in the US press. The essence of the article is this (from the article):``After years

Welcome to China--where 11% growth is bad news!?

In terms of sheer numbers of new articles it was a banner day for China today. And the news highlighted the completely different animal that China is. It’s like nothing the world has ever seen before. Even growth is bad and old words mean new things in China. In

Waves of enforcement…or the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

IP owners of the world unit! The end of piracy in China as we know it is at hand. The numbers of article in the news yesterday about Beijing’s new efforts to confront (Olympic only) piracy was more than on just about any other topic outside of Hu Jintao’

Do as I say, not as I do

I am not a China apologist. I know first hand how uneven the playing field is here for foreign companies in many industries. I agree with many critics on issues from barriers to market entry to individual freedoms. I think that the artificial valuation of the RMB not only hurts

Great Firewall of China

Yup, the Great Firewall really does stop just about everything. I posted yesterday about a couple of books that are not available in China and visits to our website dropped by almost 90%!!So, now it's back the sanitary and safe.

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

My wife and I went to the National Museum of the First Communist Party Congress of China in Shanghai yesterday. On balance, quite a good museum. It was well put together and well lit with a lot of different period items. Bio’s of each of the participants in the

Heavenly Land? Hardly!

The new Suwarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok is so bad that… (insert your favorite punch line here). The name means heavenly land. But it's anything but heavenly! What strikes me as I read and talk about the new BKK airport with others is not that there are problems it’

Take me Seriously, Please!

The Chinese Government’s latest attempt at being seen as a world power shows just how far they’ve come and how big a gap of a gap there still is in their understanding of international political norms. The ability to shoot a satellite out of orbit puts China in

Chinese Word Games, Part II

While we’ve all had problems with various websites in China, you can put your conspiracy theories away. It’s now official. If you can’t access a specific website like BBC or Google or falungong or Tibetan sites it’s just a network or hardware problem, not a censorship