Image via Wikipedia Chinese companies have displayed 25 different models of UAV, unmanned airplanes, at the Zhuhai air show, stressing it technological development, writes defense expert Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Three Chinese companies – ASN Technology Group, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. (CASIC), and China Aerospace Science andRead More →

via CrunchBase Google has been complaining that censorship in increasing their cost as a foreign player, but Kaiser Kuo, international communication director of its domestic competitor Baidu says in the New York Times that censorship is not giving Baidu a competitive advantage. Kaiser Kuo, the director of international communications forRead More →

Howard French by Fantake via Flickr China has changed profoundly, since its first high-profile internet case, the police killing Sun Zhigang in 2003, till today’s opinion blogger Han Han, writes former New York Times correspondent Howard French in the Columbia Journalism Review. But not only its over 400 million onlineRead More →

Wendell Minnick Defense specialist Wendell Minnick got a preview of the site of the 8th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Zhuhai Airshow), beginning today, showing off China’s military capabilities in the air. Seventy aircrafts from 35 countries joined 600 domestic exhibitors. There were several detailed artist renderings of anti-ship cruiseRead More →

William Bao Bean via Flickr William Bao Bean has joined Singtel Innov8, a US$ 150 million venture capitalist firm as managing director in Shanghai.  Singtel Innov8 has been established in September. Singtel Innov8 is focused on investing in and driving innovative services and technology from around the world, especially China,Read More →

Kaiser Kuo via Flickr Baidu’s Kaiser Kuo spoke recently in a debate in Hong Kong against the the argument that the internet was making us stupid. “What are we gaining by having all this near-instantaneous access to information?”, he asks in a transcript published in Adage.Kaiser Kuo: Fretting over theRead More →

Hurun by Fantake via Flickr Now real estate and the retail industry might be calling the shots, in ten years time entertainment will be leading in wealth creation, said Hurun or Rupert Hoogewerf at the presentation of the first Hurun rich list for the entertainment industry, according to the People’sRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr As the world’s economic forces prepare to gather for the G20 in Seoul, the debate is not focusing on what real issues, says Arthur Kroeber in The Guardian. Lack of trust and failing economic systems are key for both China and the US. “Appreciation wouldRead More →

Bill Fischer by Fantake via Flickr Getting more patents and PhD’s are not the ways to improve education, writes IMD professor Bill Fischer in Business Week. Getting faculty in with business experience is more important to improve the now lagging education in China. IMD’s 2010 World Competitiveness Yearbook reports that China’sRead More →

Image via Wikipedia China’s military leaders at the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) might belong to the most powerful, its Air Force might be rising, but is still lacking clout, learned Wendell Minnick at a conference last week in Taipei on the position of the PLA Air Force (PLAAF), he writesRead More →

Bill Fischer by  Fantake via Flickr The chances of foreign managers to get hired in China, even for Chinese firms, increases, but on the condition they speak Chinese, says IMD-professor Bill Fischer in an interview with CNN. Bill Fischer, a professor at Switzerland’s IMD Business School who has studied China’sRead More →

Wendell Minnickvia Flickr Two high-profile arrests in Taiwan show that China has thoroughly infiltrated Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB), writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Col. Lo Chi-cheng of the MIB and Taiwanese businessman Lo Pin are accused of supplying Beijing with the identities of MIB agents working in China.Read More →