A few notes of interest: if you have a bit of experience in the telecom industry firms like Huawei and ZTE may be interested in hiring you for new perspectives (and of course to help assuage security concerns). Chinese students are still flocking to Western universities, especially the US — perhaps you can help recruit them. And you probably may want to avoid making taxi apps for the big metros in China, yet another story about how independent developers are getting squashed by SOEs.
Thanks to Will and Sinocism for a couple links:
- ‘Ticking Time Bombs’: China’s Health Care System Faces Issues of Access, Quality and Cost from Knowledge@Wharton (lots of challenges and some opportunities, chapter 19 was probably the most in-depth of all on issues like this)
- Is Huawei Becoming Less Chinese? from The Wall Street Journal (now has at least three foreigners in high-level positions)
- China students shrug off US education woes from South China Morning Post (of the nearly 200k Chinese students in the US, 120k are studying in colleges and spent $4 billion for tuition and fees)
- Controversy over Li Na’s response to media lingers in China from Xinhua (understandable considering how many athletes are treated like throwaway commodities, see Ch 8)
- Chinese Brand Looks for Salvation in Dwayne Wade’s ‘Way’ from The Wall Street Journal (at this point it is probably harder to help reverse the fortunes of Li Ning than it would be to reverse the fortunes of any NBA team)
- How Would Accepting Gay Culture Change China? from China File
- Shanghai Cracks Down On Taxi Apps from China Tech News (more and more news to this never ending hurdle for non-SOE app makers)
- Chinese Stamp Collectors Push the Envelope from The Wall Street Journal
- China’s WeChat Racks Up 70 Million Users Abroad from The Wall Street Journal (i wonder what the demographic break down is for those, mostly Chinese students/expats overseas?)
- Too Big to Fail: Deposit Insurance and Chinese State Banks from Peterson Institute for International Economics
- China censors urge media to curb ‘cash crunch’ coverage from Financial Times
- Beijing needs 2.5m more parking lots from China Daily (one of the many reasons it is probably a bad investment to own a car out here)
- Qihoo a Winner in China Mobile Wars, Citigroup Says, Removes High Risk Tag from Barron’s
- ‘World’s largest building’ opens in China from CNN (in Chengdu, another white elephant like New South China Mall?)
- Shanghai’s free trade zone gets approved from People’s Daily (expansion and consolidation, will be gigantic. will it eventually become a quasi-Charter City?)