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Have a read of this post from the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog on some of the communciation issues Coke is having around its attempted takeover of the Huiyuan juice company in China:More damaging may be the allegations that Coke is trying to silence critics of the deal in China, which were published in this Chinese language article ...

Via Boing Boing, Ethan Persoff's website of political and counterculture cartoons (and other interesting things) has an excellent gallery of 35 late '50s and early '60s Chinese political cartoons. Unfortunately the cartoons are not translated, but the images generally speak for themselves. If you're interested in Chinese propaganda art or Cold War ...

Two or three weeks ago the New Yorker carried a good article by Evan Osnos on the phenomenon of China's ''angry youth'' (fenqing). Much of the article was a profile of one young man in particular. In truth, he sounds more passionate than angry. It's worth reading the whole thing, but there was one section I found particularly interesting:When ...

Imagethief was interested to read in the New York Times today an article about the wrangling going on over the  United States Air Force's new monster procurement deal for aerial refueling tankers, one of the biggest defense programs ever. A little back story: There are two consortia bidding for the deal. One is led by perennial American ...

On Monday, May 12th, Imagethief was on the 27th floor of the Kerry Center for a meeting at 2:28PM. We all spent a couple of spooky minutes at the window watching Kerry and Fortune Plaza sway alarmingly, not knowing that it was just the faintest echo of a far-away unfolding catastrophe. As a San Franciscan who has been through countless little ...

Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they apparently discuss the business opportunities presented by the Great Firewall. I won't get ...

From a report on attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad. I remember this term being thrown about by the President earlier in the GWOT, but I hadn't seen it for a while:The violence is a continuation of hostilities between American and Iraqi troops and Shiite militants, labeled ''criminals'' and ''evildoers'' in U.S. military releases. ***  ...

The interesting top banner from Sina's page dedicated to the perfidy of western media:   Click on the image or the web page link above for the (large) full size version. The Chinese reads (as best I can translate it):Rise up! Angrily resist the demonization of the Tibet affair!Chinese netizens roast CNN and other western media! Note the ...

If I work for Company A and I tell you that Company A's new product is the best thing ever you will probably discount the credibility of my statement. That is, if you are not three years old or terminally gullible. You'll do this because you'll correctly assume I have a vested interest in persuading you of the coolness of my own product, and ...

CNN hasn't had a good go of things in China recently. Roundly pilloried for allegedly ''biased'' coverage of the riots in Tibet, they found themselves the subject of a popular website, ''Anti-CNN'', and featured in a critical video that went viral in China and on YouTube (and is now part of a running series). At a somewhat more sinister level, the ...