“Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi Over the past several decades, while the United States was busy with unnecessary wars and the European Union was hoping to… Read More ›

Communication
Australia snubbed China’s Huawei and completed its undersea cable project to bring high-speed internet to Pacific Islands
Australia has completed the laying of undersea cables for its high-speed internet project in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, a snub to Chinese tech giant Huawei, which had previously competed for the deal. Australia on Wednesday laid the… Read More ›
Facebook, Twitter accuse China of running disinformation campaign against Hong Kong protesters
Twitter and Facebook have suspended numerous accounts that they say are tied to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Twitter said Monday it suspended 936 accounts likely related to the activity. The company said the disinformation… Read More ›
World politics after the US ban on selling chips to ZTE
China would return to 2G telecom if there were a total ban of selling chips by the Western countries to this developing country, according to an analyst in Hong Kong, because China’s self-developed attainments in this sector still lag behind… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, January 29, 2018
It was a week of protests in both Hong Kong and South Korea. Neither side of any controversy rose above the fray. For the powers that be, it was PR gone bad. For the masses, it was spitting in the… Read More ›
‘Improving’ US mobile infrastructure may allow Chinese players to join US market
A Huawei executive revealed that it could now possibly collaborate with Tier One US carriers again after regulations on security concerns have eased and improved. However, it is more than and beyond the gradual alterations on the country’s mobile security… Read More ›
China to have world’s first unbreakable satellite quantum communication network
The following is based on a translation of a report in Chinese media: In its report titled “Creation-led industrial development serves national strategy on the 2015 national science and technology award ceremony, China ’s national official TV media CCTV gives… Read More ›
Apple disables news in China rather than censor service
Apple appears to be censoring content already downloaded to customers’ phones when those customers visit mainland China. Rather than complying with the country’s draconian censorship rules by censoring certain content, the company disables the app altogether when it detects that… Read More ›
China scores dead last in latest Internet freedom survey
China, the world’s most populous country, is used to superlative status. But a global study on Internet usage put the country in an unfamiliar position: last place. The Freedom on the Net 2015 report by American watchdog Freedom House found… Read More ›
US says China cyber attacks are ‘unacceptable’ and US will win online confrontation
US President Barack Obama has said that alleged Chinese cyber attacks are “not acceptable”, ahead of a visit from Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Several hacks on US institutions have been blamed on China, including one involving millions of government staff…. Read More ›
US readies cyber sanctions against China ahead of state visit
The White House is preparing a slate of sanctions it could bring against Chinese enterprises in response to cyberattacks against American businesses, a government official familiar with the process told CNN. The move is a show of force on the… Read More ›
Chinese army newspaper calls for military role in Internet culture war
An article published in the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China’s military—and reprinted in part by Qiushi, the official magazine of the Chinese Communist Party—calls the Internet “the ideological ‘main front’ and ‘the main battlefield’” upon which… Read More ›
China to invest $193 billion on Internet networks, but will tightening controls harm creativity and scare investors away?
China’s Internet is a place of often confusing extremes. On the one hand, this week the government announced an investment of nearly $200 billion to boost Internet connection speed with fast optical broadband in major cities and 4G networks in… Read More ›
This chart explains everything you need to know about Chinese Internet censorship
What goes through a Chinese web user’s head the moment before he or she hits the “publish” button? Pundits, scholars, and everyday netizens have spent years trying to parse the (ever-shifting) rules of the Chinese Internet. Although Chinese authorities have… Read More ›
Is China’s new ‘internet plus’ ambition all about new smartphones?
China’s ‘internet plus’ strategy, announced in early March, promised to integrate mobile Internet, cloud computing and big data for manufacturing and promote the development of e-commerce, industrial networks and internet banking. But how would this ambitious plan to transform the… Read More ›
China threatens to shut down Sina news website unless it ‘improves censorship’
China’s government has threatened to shut down Sina, one of the country’s most popular news websites unless it “improves censorship”, state media reported, in a rare public glimpse into controls over the press. The online portal “distorted news facts, violated morality and… Read More ›
China wants to recruit 10 million students to “civilise” the Internet, but won’t pay them for their time
China wants to recruit 10 million young people, mostly university students belonging to the Communist Party’s youth wing, to “spread positive energy” on the Internet — in other words, to use social media to praise and defend the government. Web users… Read More ›
China Ban Hits Google’s Search Ad Share; Baidu Gains
Google’s search-ad revenues are eroding on a global scale in large part because China, one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for information services, has banned the U.S. company’s offerings. Meanwhile, Baidu, which is based in China, is reaping the benefits,… Read More ›
How the New York Times is eluding censors in China
The New York Times’ English and Chinese-language websites have been blocked since an October 2012 article about the wealthy family of prime minister Wen Jiabao. But according to employees in the company, outside observers, and mainland Chinese readers, the Times is quietly pursuing… Read More ›
China expanding its GPS to cover entire world with top accuracy
The following is based on translations from Chinese media: China’s GPS system, the Beidou Navigation System (Beidou), now covers only China and its neighbouring areas. Its special characteristic is the capability of message communication between users of the system. Now… Read More ›
China connects Spratly Islands to TV and mobile phone networks, so troops will no longer feel lonely
The following is based on translations from Chinese media: China’s qianzhan.com reports that in early March, the islands and reefs occupied by China in the Spratly Islands will covered by China’s mobile phone and TV networks. That is quite a… Read More ›
Why China won’t eliminate foreign technology by 2020
Late last week, an interesting piece ran in Bloomberg about China’s plans to eliminate foreign technology from government agencies and key industries by 2020, mostly for security reasons. China has already begun pushing in this direction – Windows 8 is… Read More ›
Yin Xiangfeng, Chief Editor of China Radio International, reveals his plans for Poland
The following interview by Piotr Chodak highlights the growing importance of the relationship between Poland and China: Piotr Chodak: In recent times, we have seen more and more bold moves by the editor of China Radio International in Pland. Frequent… Read More ›
China’s “world-fastest” supercomputers sit idle and serve no useful purpose
Having endeavoured to become a major technological power and reduce its dependence on the West, China has built the second largest collection of supercomputers after the U.S., including the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-2. But it seems a lot of… Read More ›
China Daily Mail makes a mark in the international media
China Daily Mail features a mixture of reposted articles about China, as well as original feature articles and opinions from over sixty contributors. Most of the reposted articles are blocked in parts of China, or the whole country, and these… Read More ›
U.S. accuses China of cyber spying on American companies
A U.S. grand jury has indicted five Chinese military officers on charges of hacking into American companies for information on nuclear plant design, solar manufacturing and other secrets in the toughest action taken by Washington to address cyber spying. China… Read More ›
China’s campaign against foreign words
Twice in late April, People’s Daily railed against the incorporation of acronyms and English words in written Chinese. “How much have foreign languages damaged the purity and vitality of the Chinese language?” the Communist Party’s flagship publication asked as it complained of the “zero-translation… Read More ›
Man “confesses” in first public trial of China’s rumour crackdown
A popular internet microblogger confessed in court to spreading rumours about the Chinese government, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, in the first public trial since China began cracking down on online rumours last year. Rights advocates say… Read More ›
Chinese Internet traffic redirected to small Wyoming house
In one of the more bizarre twists in recent Internet memory, much of the Internet traffic in China was redirected to a small, 1,700-square-foot house in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Tuesday. A large portion of China’s 500 million Internet users were… Read More ›
China bans Battlefield 4 video game; declares it a “threat to national security”
Not content with banning a video game for hurting their feelings, China have banned any mention of the the game whatsoever, even to the extent of banning it in internet searches. There are different kinds of bans in the video… Read More ›
Fake expat website claims western countries see China in a very positive light
Fake expat website eChinacities, in a pathetic bid to sway the opinions of expats living in China, has published unsubstantiated figures provided by the CCP, which claim that the majority of citizens living in countries known to criticise China, in… Read More ›
China renews press cards for Bloomberg and New York Times reporters
The Chinese government has renewed the press accreditations for journalists from Bloomberg News and several New York Times reporters, a journalists’ group said on Thursday. Foreign journalists from the two media organisations had feared they may have to leave China… Read More ›
Pioneering digital marketing in China
The Chinese market is a key target for global luxury brands and export oriented companies focusing on high-end quality products and services. Setting up a marketing strategy could be the hard part of the job, even for brands and companies… Read More ›
China’s Xiaomi’s app market has double downloads of competitors; international success could follow
Xiaomi, the break-out smartphone star of the Greater China market, is receiving lots of attention thanks to the somewhat salacious tale of ex-Android VP Hugo Barra and his recent move to the Chinese company. Xiaomi is looking to sell around 20 million smartphones… Read More ›
Denial-of-service attack shuts down Chinese Internet on Sunday morning
The attack began at 2 a.m. Sunday morning and was followed by a more intense attack at 4 a.m., according to the China Internet Network Information Center, which apologized to affected users in its statement and said it is working to improve… Read More ›
Apple’s grip on China tablet market loosens
Apple’s grip on China’s tablet market has loosened as Asian tech companies increase sales with cheaper Android tablet computers, a market report showed Thursday. Dickie Chang, senior market analyst at research firm IDC, said Apple supplied 28 percent of tablet… Read More ›