The story about LEGO below is very interesting, I briefly mention them in my book but their growth has even surprised my optimism in that segment. The censorship posts about Weibo are very sobering too.
- Can Creativity Be Taught? Taiwan Course Is Trying from The Wall Street Journal (doubtful if it is taught in a traditional setting)
- Crossing Lines: Sina Punishes More Than 100,000 Weibo Accounts from The Wall Street Journal (will continue causing chilling effects and self-censorship, removing a lot of the value and utility microblogs had)
- How to Get Censored on China’s Twitter from ProPublica (many ways)
- Sina Weibo: we’re still seeing growth, now up to 60.2 million daily active users from Tech In Asia
- GM to move international office to Singapore from USA Today (how will this impact their market access in the long-run?)
- Plenum Insight: Conclave ‘Didn’t Change Status of SOEs’ from Caixin (no suprise. SOEs are on of the biggest special interest groups… 100k of them. no way to truly reform long-term without reforming them)
- State Companies Emerge as Winners Following Top China Meeting from The Wall Street Journal
- China’s State Companies Ain’t Going Nowhere from The Wall Street Journal
- The Year of the Lego from The New Yorker
- Jeremy Lin is better off without Linsanity and New York from USA Today (my college students in zhongshan were agog and so excited when he was playing)
- Locked in the Cabient from Politico (that was an economic A-team?)
- A Few Bad Men from that’s (more like a prince of d-bags, wonder how many other similar cases go unreported or are quashed)
- Sino-US stand-off threatens trade talks from Financial Times
- China NSA The NSA Leaks Have Been Crushing US Tech Sales In China from Business Insider
- Balancing Financial Reform and Risk in the New Zone from Caixin
- Shanghai Party Boss: We Complement Hong Kong from Caixin (long way to go to out-compete HK, strict capital controls for one thing)
- Han Zheng: How Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone Works from Caixin (years in the making, years more for it to germinate and mature)