I wrote a guest post for GigaOm Pro on why it is so hard for most US Internet firms to succeed in China. GigaOm Pro is $79/yr, and after spending a couple of weeks using it I’d say it is well worth the very reasonable price. GigaOm excerpted my post on its free site, which [...]
Kaiser Kuo has launched Sinica, a new podcast series focused on China. The first installment discusses Google in China and features Kaiser, Jeremy Goldkorn from Danwei.org, and yours truly. You can listen to the podcast here. Popup Chinese provided the recording, editing and hosting of the podcast. If you are learning Chinese and have not [...]
Don’t bother trying to come into China directly. Your services are far too subversive to be approved in the current environment. Even if you were allowed into the country, you would be chewed apart by large, scrappy local competitors like Oak Pacific, Kaixin001, Sina and Tencent. And the ethical and public relations minefields would be [...]
Secrectary of State Hillary Clinton is delivering a speech in which, according to the Wall Street Journal, she will announce that “the U.S. plans to make unrestricted access to the Internet a top foreign-policy priority.” I think it is wonderful that the U.S. will push Internet freedom globally. But the timing could probably not be [...]
There is still much speculation and little true knowledge about what really drove Google’s ($GOOG) decision to publicly state that it is “no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn” and may consider shutting down their operations in China. We know Google was hacked, some of their intellectual property was stolen, and they now [...]
The China Media Project, based at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre, is probably the single best public, English-language resource for understanding the political and ideological drivers behind China’s media policies. Some recent posts include: Weighing in on Google’s Predicament in China Grabbing the Reins of “Online Political Participation” A Few [...]
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