I’m surprised that there have not been any overseas initiatives to work with local match-makers to help the 30-40 million single men in China of “marriage age” (and who will not be able to find a local bride due to a lack of available numbers)?  While that may have been a crazy idea just 10 years ago, in the age of Weixin and OK Cupid, it may just be a matter of time for laonei and laowai to become better acquainted.

Thanks to Peter J and Sinocism for a couple links.

• Glut of women at Shanghai’s marriage market from CNN (karma for 30 years of preferential gender culturalism?  there are roughly 1 million single women in Shanghai who could probably find a partner if they were in another country)
• Eric Schmidt praises Myanmar’s mobile efforts, but says North Korea hasn’t called back  from Engadget
• China to step up own security after new NSA allegations from Reuters (wonder what the score is for bilateral hacking… probably more skewed to NSA still due to its longer existence)
• Strained Finances, Strained Relationships from Caixin
• Legitimizing the ‘Civilized Internet’: China’s Seduction of U.S. Media from The Atlantic
• ‘China’s Spielberg’ Feng Xiaogang Says Censors Are Holding Back Industry (Q&A) from The Hollywood Reporter (very true)
• How ‘The Walking Dead’ Prepares China for the Zombie Apocalypse from Tea Leaf Nation (it is quite popular though in my own opinion the show is no bueno; a soap opera with zombie aesthetics)
• Exclusive: China securitization plan expanded to include foreign banks – sources from Reuters (i will believe it when i see it)
• New Broadband And 3G Users Push China Telecom To New Highs from China Tech News (wonder if it will ever be reformed and privatized)
• Suning, Hony Capital Jointly Invest In China’s PPTV from China Tech News (wonder if their legal department has seen what the various bilateral trade agreements will do with the IP, certainly will benefit special interest groups and rent-seeking)
• Zoomlion, Press Crackdowns and China’s Economy from The Wall Street Journal (being able to investigate and do due diligence is very hard in this climate, who knows what really happened in that case.)
• Road Extension Links China’s Last County with No Highway Access from CRI English
• China U. from The Nation (about Confucius Institute.  lots of money/resources/guanxi involved)
• China Construction Bank Goes Shopping in Brazil from The Wall Street Journal
• China’s billionaires ignore one child rule from South China Morning Post
• Bye Bye Vibrating Bras: China Limits Infomercials from The Wall Street Journal
• Chinese censorship’s dangerous subtlety from The Guardian (really makes it hard to break news or report it at all which plays into the hands of the large SOE media companies.)