Quality Fade: American or Chinese, Which is Worse?
Paul Midler is an experienced sourcing expert who has worked in China for many years, and publishes The China Game blog. I believe that he is the first person to coin the term “quality fade”. Quality...
View ArticleApple and China: The American Media Ignorance Continues
Over the past year, the tone of coverage of many China-related topics in the US has improved. For the most part, writers covering China have tried to look past the generally-accepted stereotypes, and...
View ArticleMySpace China Loses Out To Local Competition
The story of western social network sites losing out to local Chinese competitors continues; this time MySpace China joins the list as its CEO Luo Chuan makes it official that he is going to leave to...
View ArticleThe Brave New World of Deglobalization
In previous articles, I have voiced some of my criticisms and predictions re globalization here, here, here, and here. Unfortunately, it is becoming clearer by the day that globalization was largely a...
View ArticleCan We Just Take Globalization Out Back And Shoot It In The Back of the Head?
My apologies for not having written for so long. I have been “otherwise pre-occupied” and have also been watching the first weeks of the Obama presidency and the accelerating unwinding of the financial...
View ArticleChina: Last Man Standing?
On this blog, I have been a frequent critic of the view that China is a threat to the rest of the world as a rising superpower. Most of the time, these critics have a clear agenda to sell with regard...
View ArticleRule of Law: “Nice While It Lasted”
The US Congress has decided that Huawei is “a threat to US national security” by the US House Intelligence Committee. Huawei has issued a swift rebuttal. Apparently the US House Intelligence Committee...
View ArticleBook Review: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers
This book, by James McGregor, paints an interesting picture of what the failure to reform the Chinese political and economic systems has done to China by 2012. The title sums it up clearly: No Ancient...
View ArticleChina Says No To Most Westerners Working In China
Stop sign in Chinese In my previous article, I mentioned why the next wave of internet startups would be outside China. The flip side is how difficult Chinese government policy has made it for...
View ArticleBook Review: China Fast Forward
When Tom Friedman is urging the Americans to follow China’s economic example, and the US mainstream media is all about how powerful China’s economy is, you know that it’s a good idea to take a closer...
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