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Danwei has republished an interesting article by author and businessman James McGregor. It's absolutely worth a read. McGregor is one of the most experienced and astute China analysts around. As a flack, there was one paragraph in particular that struck me:[After] 25 years of economic reforms and more than a decade of nearly 10% annual growth, ...

I spent most of Friday evening working on a company project with a colleague, a young American woman, who will be traveling to England soon. As we hacked our way through an awards submission (not my favorite way to spend my Friday evening) she confessed that she had a lot of anxiety about terrorism. She was worried about flying to England and had ...

I don't know who ''Gizmo'' is, but he or she has just started a blog and as just the third post put up a very interesting and relevant piece on the topic of economic nationalism. This is an issue of pressing concern for everyone who does PR or marketing work for multinationals in China. China's love-hate relationship (more here) with foreign ...

I have a lot of time for Rebecca MacKinnon. She has worthwhile things to say about China, and she's been an energetic and outspoken advocate for a more open media and Internet environment in China and a greater degree of accountability from the foreign companies that do business here. She has also just led the development of Human Rights Watch's ...

After a busy week (and a nasty Friday flu) I had a chance to catch up on news and blogs. Some interesting stories from today and the past couple of days. Most are China related, a couple are not. All are interesting.Niger Delta in flames  An awful place gets worse, just as both the US and China are seeing it as one of the keys to future ...

A friend of mine, who is one of the editors at ITJourno Asia, a trade publication for IT Journalists in Asia, wrote to me recently and asked me to comment on a speech given by Richard Edelman, CEO of the eponymous public relations firm at a PR awards ceremony. The speech apparently hailed the rise of PR in an era where exploding ...

In my job I am regularly exposed to Chinese press releases from various sources (often not my clients, I hasten to add). We sometimes send these releases for translation into English for our clients. As one of the few native English speakers in the office, I am often asked to edit the spotty results. A translated Chinese press release does ...

Having recently suggested that it was important for the founders of US Internet companies at the heart of the China/Censorship issue to address it themselves, I was interested to see that Segey Brin of Google has in fact done so. He didn't do it in direct discussion with media, but in response to a question posed by an analyst at the Google ...

Imagethief was interested to see in this morning's China Daily a report from a seminar held earlier this week by the Internet Society of China in Hainan. From the article, the annual meeting of the Internet Information Service Commission was a shining opportunity for local Internet companies to suck up to the government by publicly ...

It's been nearly two weeks since representatives of Cisco, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google testified before the House Subcommittee on Human Rights about their various entanglements with China. As expected, after blowing hot in the run-up to the testimony, coverage has cooled a great deal. Unless there is substantial progress with Rep. Chris ...