China Economic ReviewReading the newspapers this morning on China is a real nostalgia trip. It warms the cockles of my Democracy Wall-era journalistic heart to see all these stories about human rights and censorship and dissidents. The only China stories in the New York Times, the FT and the WSJ today are on non-business stories, harkening back […]
China certainly control information in ways that Western countries do not. But it is also sometimes the victim of overly negative or inaccurate perceptions. I have the sense, for instance, that many people believe Skype has been blocked in China. It has not. It works. I am also reading Travels of a T-Shirt, one of […]
The discussion over control of information in China’s media has developed surprisingly fast, both internationally and domestically. The Gang of Four US tech companies – Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco – are under pressure in the US for filtering information to meet Chinese government requirements, and senior retired Chinese officials are publicly criticizing the government […]
The Shanghai property market is probably the most liquid and long-term safe investment that can be made in mainland China, as long as you choose the right place, of course. Short-term, it is always hard to say. But the feel of the market seems to be changing. Over the past year it has been down […]
Mr Liu Zhengrong, the man at the State Council responsible for the Great Firewall of China, filtering the Internet for the masses, says that the controls on content are fundamentally the same as those implemented by other countries. I don’t know, but when I am in China, my downloading of emails is regularly impeded by […]