That’s a lot of cars sold last month and those Android numbers are huge (though misleading too). The air pollution has been pretty horribad this past week, had to stay indoors nearly everyday.
Thanks to James M for some links.
- In Search of the Real China from Foreign Affairs
- China: What is the situation regarding Bitcoin from the perspective of someone in China? by Joseph Wang (based on my conversations here his answers sound about right)
- Report: China has 270m Android users – that’s nearly 30% of global Android activations to date from The Next Web (but google doesnt see much profits from it due to being cut out of the loop, most phones do not have google services)
- Behind China’s Cyber Curtain from The New Republic (Aba County)
- Is Bloomberg Going After The Wife Of A Former China Reporter? from BuzzFeed (will be nearly impossible to tell if future stories are nerfed/censored)
- Lang Lang: Tiger Moms Need to Relax from The Wall Street Journal (statistically improbable due to how grading system works)
- China November auto sales up 16 percent from Associated Press (2 million vehicles sold last month)
- China Eyes Smoking Ban from The Wall Street Journal
- China to judge local governments by their debt: Xinhua from Reuters (will be a good time to be a spin doctor and/or someone who can make debt disappear)
- Is Beijing about to Boot the New York Times? from Foreign Policy (maybe not directly boot, just indirectly not renew any visas to management there)
- Will China Shut Out the Foreign Press? from ChinaFile
- China’s Rust Belt Cities Hit With New Air Pollution Fines from The Wall Street Journal (shanghai air has been so bad the past week, yet none of it is generated in the metro. all from other provinces. tragedy of the commons)
- China: Five Pounds of Facts from The New York Review of Books (very comprehensive)
- Inside China’s troubled far west from Aljazeera
- English teachers to study abroad from The Japan Times (locals going abroad, wonder how to measure the ROI)