3rd Plenum has ended but no specific reforms have been publicized yet. Par for the course. And Single’s Day (11-11) broke more e-commerce records.
- HK has no reason to cave in to Alibaba from China Daily
- Alibaba rivals redouble efforts on Single’s Day from Financial Times (51buy had some good deals)
- Pegatron Finds iPhone Is No Money-Spinner from The Wall Street Journal
- Western Media In China: Adjusting To The ‘Anaconda’ from NPR (one of the most thankless and most riskiest jobs by far is to operate as a journalist, either domestic or foreign)
- China Stocks, Bonds Fall After Beijing Disappoints from The Wall Street Journal (meetings like this are always vague, always nebulous about what changes will or will not take place)
- Foreign journalism under pressure from The Economist
- Half of all computer malware is written in Chinese, but the most dangerous is written in Russian from Quartz
- Long silent, China’s entrepreneurs push for change from Associated Press (i’ve heard several mention desires for reforms but i doubt it’ll happen anytime soon)
- A Peek inside Alibaba’s Nerve Center from Caixin
- Online Sales Records Toppled on PRC’s Biggest Shopping Day from Alizila ($5.7 billion turn-over in one day)
- Watch: China’s Urbanization Push Heads Underground from The Wall Street Journal (will be funded by taxpayers and will most likely be entirely unprofitable for anyone except SOEs and those with guanxi. no subway line in china is currently profitable)
- Sobering Up: China Cracks Down on Binge Drinking from The Wall Street Journal
- The girl with no identity: Being a second child in China from CNN (the stories i could tell you from frustrated women born into families that only adore males…)
- What we can learn from teaching English abroad from The Telegraph