I was fortunate enough to watch live last evening the informative roundtable discussion hosted by the New America Foundation Authority, Meet Technology: Will China’s Great Firewall Hold? as I mentioned yesterday here. For those interested in internet freedom on the eve of Secretary of State Clinton’s speech on the subject, I’ve embedded the YouTube link [...]
Mark this one on your calendar: Authority, Meet Technology, “…a Slate/New America Foundation event about China, Google, and Internet freedom.”
How will the China-Google skirmish shake out? What lessons or cautionary tales does China’s experience offer repressive governments and their tech-savvy opponents in places like Iran and Cuba? What, if anything, should the Obama administration do [...]
A provocative question was posed at DigiCha in the title of a blog post a few days back: Will Google, Facebook and Twitter Please Join as Sponsors of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010
What better message could the USA send to the world than to have the three standard bearers of 21st century [...]
A post at ESWN (EastSouthWestNorth) entitled The Truth About The Google Affair claims to have information of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plants within Google’s Shanghai office. While this in itself would not be a surprise, that it took so little time for it to actually become public is. The post is “a translation of an [...]
Here’s one just because I like it. And it reminds me of my favorite, still-under-construction Chinese television station project. For the rest of this very cool new font, called Priori Acute, from Jonathan Barnbrook’s font family for digital type foundry Emigre, go here. (h/t Core77)
Priori Acute is the latest addition to the Priori family. [...]
When Google made the decision to accept censorship constraints in order to enter the Chinese market, Google Inc.’s CEO Eric Schmidt stated, “We concluded that although we weren’t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all. We actually did an ‘evil’ scale and decided ‘not to [...]
In the new era of the Capitalist Roader, we have no room for dead weight. That’s why we decided to sell all 100 of our shares of China Vanke (000002) stock this week at a price of RMB10.10 (US$1.48). While making a bet on China’s property market might seem like [...]
Capitalist Roader Fund
As the Capitalist Roader Fund enters a new year, the time has come to bid farewell to the old system which, while staid and resolute, was fundamentally flawed. Picking stocks by following positive macroeconomic trends helped us only to a meager 12% gain in 2009 even as the [...]
A year is a long time and it includes moments of joy, sorrow and, yes, indignation. We admit that bad things happen all the time, but when terrible things happen that should not have happened it can send one into a fit of fury justifiable fury. So reads the [...]
China is now the world’s number one merchandise exporter, shipping US$957 billion of goods in the first 10 months of 2009 compared to second-placed Germany’s US$917 billion, according to Global Trade Information Services.
The news is hardly surprising. Fast-developing China has been playing closing in on more mature Germany for some [...]