No big business stories (since nothing changed during the Plenum) but the one-child policy is officially being reformed and several foreign sites have been blocked (the Chinese version of Reuters and the Wall Street Journal). Only official criticism allowed…
- Volvo Discovers the Benefits of Being Chinese from The Wall Street Journal (huge revenue from gov’t purchases)
- Lenovo Vaults to Third in Smartphone Race from The Wall Street Journal
- Museum Aims to Capture Sights and Sounds of Old Beijing from The Wall Street Journal
- Cisco attributes part of lowered earnings to China’s anger toward NSA from ArsTechnica (believable, probably will be a long-term trend too)
- Nearly one in two Chinese mothers chose to give birth by caesarean from South China Morning Post (i have several colleagues who have done it this way for reasons not cited)
- ‘I am like a ghost now’, says censored outspoken scholar Zhang Lifan from South China Morning Post (believable, now think of what happens post-singularity like in Accelerando with huge revert/revision wars)
- Rare ‘Asian unicorn’ caught on camera from CNN (not a unicorn)
- China’s F1 hopeful Sun Zheng cuts his teeth at Macau Grand Prix from CNN
- China Eases One-Child Policy from The Wall Street Journal (perhaps too late, why didnt they abolish entire policy?)
- How a Former PBS Reporter Became “The Most Famous Woman in China” from Yahoo! Finance
- Gambia severs diplomatic ties with Taiwan from BBC (checkbook diplomacy?)
- Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Gay Erotic God in China from Foreign Policy
- Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ Chinese sites blocked in China from Tech In Asia (oddly enough TIA is also timing out for me, along with the chinese version of WSJ and Reuters, not a good sign)
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