Tag Archives: Politics

Good News! The Press is Out to Get You

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Will Moss

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk about PR in China to a journalism class at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In any student talk the Q&A is always the most fun, and this group was no exception. Among … Continue reading →

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Facebook + Instagram + China = Take a Deep Breath

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Will Moss

So, Facebook bought Instagram for a billion bucks. Awesome for those guys. I, alas, did not get rich in either of the Internet startups I participated in. But you can’t put a price on experience, right? Deep sigh. Anyway, Instagram … Continue reading →

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Facebook’s China playbook

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Will Moss

As you have undoubtedly heard by now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend* were spotted in Shanghai on Wednesday. This has lead to a completelypredictable round of speculation as to whether this signals some new development in Facebook + … Continue reading →

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Unsolicited advice for Xinhua’s new CNC TV news outfit

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Will Moss

To listen to people moan about the fact that China has sixty “Confucius Centers” in the US to America’s zilch-nada in China you’d think the Chinese were wrapping up hearts and minds around the planet while America gets relegated to … Continue reading →

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Free laptops for NPC delegates – it looked good on paper

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Will Moss

Let’s say you’re a company selling some kind of product. Let’s say your product is –let’s just pick something at random here– laptop computers. Globally, this is a heavily commoditized category jammed with companies selling look-alike products with similar feature … Continue reading →

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Google detonates the China corporate communications script

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Will Moss

Imagethief stumbled blearily to his computer this morning expecting a relaxed scan of the news but found the Chinese Twittersphere ablaze with the news of Google’s bombshell blog post, which went up in the middle of the night early this … Continue reading →

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Coke, Huiyuan and the audiences that matter

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Will Moss

Nothing as timely as the blogs, I tell you. As everyone on the planet now knows, the Coke-Huiyuan deal has fallen through. It retrospect, it wasn’t particularly surprising. It broke new ground in size, and public sentiment was never behind … Continue reading →

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What the “grass mud horse” means and doesn’t mean

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Will Moss

Warning: This post contains vulgarity in an academic context. Those with weak constitutions are advised to stop reading and visit this wholesome site instead. The New York Times has an interesting story about Chinese Internet users putting a stick in … Continue reading →

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5/12, 9/11 and three minutes on Monday afternoon

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Will Moss

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 →

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Tibet and the trouble with unassailable national myths

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Will Moss

Outside of Young Frankenstein there isn’t really any such thing as a “good time” for rioting, but this might be an especially bad time for China to have a bout of punishing ethnic unrest. It hasn’t really been a banner … Continue reading →

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