Another cornucopia of links, mostly China-related.  I wonder if encryption usage will become more prevalent by companies and individuals?  Maybe not though because it can be complex and cumbersome to use… although as David Veksler has mentioned, it is good “best practices” to prevent proprietary information from leaking at your company by utilizing encryption.  Perhaps services like Silent Circle will become more popular as time goes by?

• Is Beijing pleased Snowden fled to Hong Kong? by Bill Bishop (probably not in the long run. even if he talks, i doubt Snowden will tell them anything they don’t already know since they try to do the same thing with their agencies/telecom SOEs domestically — GFW is one of the biggest known dragnets pre-PRISM)
• Inside the NSA’s Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group from Foreign Policy
• NSA hacks China, leaker Snowden claims from CNN (doubt he’s working directly with PRC, otherwise he would have flown to Beijing or Shanghai, not HK… although it is curious as to why he didn’t go to iceland in the first place.  it’s no secret that the US was doing this from hawaii and other locales, heard that from several former military officers in asia mention this over beers in the past.)
• The end of the expat dream? Foreigners facing increasingly competitive Chinese job market from Shanghaiist (maybe not end, but slow decline with all of the “sea turtles” returning and creating competitive job market)
• Why it’s Still So Hard to Find Safe Baby Formula from The Economic Observer
• Reining in China’s Testosterone from The Economic Observer (both Ray Kurzweil and Michael Anissimov are cited)
• Audit Office Shines Light On Local Government Debt from The Wall Street Journal
• MakerBot’s Replicator 2 joins Amazon’s newly launched 3D printer store from Engadget (i wonder how much both companies will spend on fighting predatory lawsuits/patent trolls)
• Baidu Sues Qihoo 360 In China For Search Engine Sitemap Format Plagiarism from China Tech News (if you can’t beat them, sue them)
• No-one turns up to welcome China’s football team in Hefei from Danwei (in their defense, Hefei is a really crappy city.  been there 6-7 times, dislike it each time primarily because of environment.  still the team is horribad and i don’t think hiring beckham as an image ambassador will help it)
• 6 a minute in China told they have cancer from Sina (that’s a lot of medical costs)
• How much investment is optimal? by Michael Pettis
• EMC, JD.com Form Big Data Cloud Computing Strategic Cooperation In China from China Tech News
• Body Shop tells Cambridge girl she needs to speak Chinese from BBC (in the UK, company apologized)
• Politics Checks in for China Hotel Industry from The Wall Street Journal
• China’s new superhero! Stan Lee’s Universe from CNN (the college students i taught thought it would be weird to have an asian superhero, i don’t see why?)
• Chinese Telecom Equipment Makers Make African Inroads from China Tech News
• iOS 7 will play nice with both Tencent and Sina Weibo from Shanghaiist
• China’s Gome Gross Margin Declines While Closing 43 Stores In Q1 2013 from China Tech News
• Will Manny Ramirez ‘Hit-and-Run’ From Taiwan? from The Wall Street Journal
• Obama, Xi Make Deal on Greenhouse Gases from The Wall Street Journal
• Beijing tops happiness ranking for 5 yrs from China Daily (wow, seriously?)
• Lenovo Officially Opens U.S. PC Manufacturing Operations from China Tech News
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