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Tag Archives: China in the News
General retreat!
Well, that didn’t take long. A couple of days ago foreign media reported on a book by PLA Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu calling for China to seek global military supremacy. Today, the China Daily carries a follow-up titled, “China’s military … Continue reading
Tagged China, China Daily, China in the News, Military, Politics, Public Relations
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Communication drives America’s “China-scare” meme
There’s an interesting article in the Washington Post from former Beijing bureau chief (and author of the good book Chinese Lessons) John Pomfret and his colleague, Steven Mufson looking at the rising “red scare” meme in the US. The two … Continue reading
Tagged China, China in the News, Economy, Politics, Technology, Trade, USA
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General alarm!
Another day, another soldier shooting his mouth off (metaphorically). Or, more accurately, publishing a book calling for China to work toward military primacy. From Reuters: China should build the world’s strongest military and move swiftly to topple the United States … Continue reading
Tagged China, China in the News, Military, Nationalism, Politics, Public Relations, USA
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Clearing the fog around Google China reports
Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here. A quick pointer to an excellent post at the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog, which busts several myths concerning Google in China that have … Continue reading
Tagged Business, Censorship, China in the News, Google, Internet
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Paul Midler’s “Poorly Made in China”: Mischief, mayhem, soap
Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here. As a general rule, Imagethief dislikes business books, especially instructional ones. I find them tedious and most of them age faster than caviar on a car … Continue reading
Tagged Books, Business, China, China in the News
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Consultants say hardened Chinese death-nerds are coming for your daughters
Yes, it’s true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They’re in your bank account. They’re in the Pentagon. They’re sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they’re completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least that’s the terrifying … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, China in the News, Internet, Media, Politics, Propaganda, Technology
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Chinese cyberspies? Sheer lies and heinous fabrications!
Alright, I confess I made up the “heinous fabrications” bit. But the “sheer lies” sound bite comes straight from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has clearly worked hard to make sure that its representatives around the world are working … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, China in the News, Internet, Nationalism, Propaganda, Public Relations, Technology
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5/12, 9/11 and three minutes on Monday afternoon
On Monday, May 12th, Imagethief was on the 27th floor of the Kerry Center for a meeting at 2:28PM. We all spent a couple of spooky minutes at the window watching Kerry and Fortune Plaza sway alarmingly, not knowing that … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, China in the News, Nationalism, Politics
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Was the China corruption website collapse story “newsiness”?
The greatest contribution that comedian Stephen Colbert has made to modern society is the concept of “truthiness”. Reading from the Wikipedia definition, truthiness is: …a satirical term to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or “from the … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, China in the News, Journalism, Media, Politics, Propaganda
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Why the Yilishen ant-farming scandal was the perfect China story
Imagethief recently found himself huddled in a wintry hutong courtyard in conversation with two longtime Beijing-based foreign correspondents. During this discussion we came to the conclusion that the recent Yilishen ant-farming scandal is more or less the perfect China story. … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, China in the News, Media, Politics, Weird
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