New Rules in China Upset Western Tech Companies By PAUL MOZUR JAN. 28, 2015 HONG KONG — The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to turn over secret source code, submit to invasive audits and build so-called back doors into hardware and software, according to […]…
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China Clamps Down Still Harder on Internet Access-New York Times
This article in the Times is one of two pieces of further evidence that the trends we documented at the OPC China Hands reunion are intensifying. By ANDREW JACOBS JAN. 29, 2015 BEIJING — Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the […]…
Colombia: The Next Phase of Exploitation, Or Is It Development?
See Rita’s great pictures at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/notasia/sets/72157650566162696/ CARTAGENA–One of the reasons I wanted to come to Cartagena is that I have never been to the continent of South America. I’ve been to the other five inhabited continents, but not this one. So on my personal bucket list, getting to all six inhabited continents accomplishes a life […]…
An Important New Book on China
I worked on this project for much of 2014 and am delighted that it has resulted in the sixth book that I have written or edited. It’s important because it captures one of those historic moments in which we in the West recognize that we may have fundamentally misjudged China’s direction. The book is now […]…
The Riddle of Backshoring
Everyone is preoccupied with terrorism at the moment, but this was a very important story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It seems that if we want American companies to bring home their manufacturing from China, we have to pay attention to the entire supply chain that they need to make their products on U.S. […]…
