About William Moss
Trans-Pacific spin doctor. Head of Global Media Relations at TSMC. Occasional writer of humor and PR analysis. This is a personal blog and opinions are my own. More information at “About Imagethief“.
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Tag Archives: China
Congress to grill US net firms on China
The US government has begun to take note of what American Internet firms are doing in China. A report in CNET’s News.com from technology policy journalist Declan McCullagh (also now picked up by Rebecca MacKinnon, Asiapundit, etc.) says that two … Continue reading
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Chinese restaurant calculation made easy
A couple of days ago, Imagethief had lunch with four members of his team at a Chinese restaurant downstairs from our office. Choosing dishes was easy –I’ll eat almost anything– but, predictably, there was much debate about exactly how many … Continue reading
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I am Beijing’s decadent man bitch
When I was back in the US recently I was often asked a deceptively simple question: “What is it like living Beijing?” This is a trap. It’s a trap because no-one living in the United States wants to hear in … Continue reading
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Harbin aftermath: Government vows to thoroughly scape all goats
Catastrophes are fun to watch, but not nearly so much fun as the aftermath of kicking, screaming and recriminations as blame is liberally heaped and fingers pointed. Katrina lasted only a day, after all, but the operatic fallout has reverberated … Continue reading
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Tagged China, China in the News, Crisis Management, Environment, Politics, Propaganda, Public Relations
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The Harbin water crisis
A couple of days ago, in response to a link I posted to his roundup of articles on the Harbin water crisis ESWN put this comment up on my site: As you are the PR expert, how would you have … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, China, China in the News, Crisis Management, Environment, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation
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American Internet firms in Chinese peril
I like talking with journalists because, naturally, they have a way of asking interesting questions. The same journalist who got me thinking about corruption in PR hit me with a poser while we were talking: “Name a successful American Internet … Continue reading
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Are PR and MNCs corrupting Chinese media?
The week before last I had lunch with a foreign correspondent who asked me if there was corruption in PR in China. Although I was only providing background, and not speaking to him on the record, I was, to put … Continue reading
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Imagethief and the spectral tiger: A Dongbei travelogue
It was the same conversation I’ve had a hundred times in China. “Where do you come from? How did you learn to speak Chinese? Do you like China?” But it was the first time I’d had it buck naked in … Continue reading
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How to survive a Chinese drinking party
Imagethief is in Shenzhen, supporting a Japanese client company at the Seventh Annual China High Technology Exposition, currently occupying a huge amount of space at one of Shenzhen’s two convention halls (our first taxi driver took us to the wrong … Continue reading
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The strange lunacy of translators in airliner cockpits
Singapore is now completely infatuated with China, and the average Straits Times has about seventy-six pages of news from China. I am really good friends with two of the ST correspondents in Beijing, so I will mention that much of … Continue reading
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