This is a scream…
March 5, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
And I thought cottage industries were moms sitting around the kitchen table making buttons or painting toy soldiers…I’m speechless.
Have a great weekend.
Arrogant Americans need not apply, the decline (?) of the West and what if the Chinese stop buying US paper?
February 24, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
“The enemy always has problems of his own of which you are unaware.” – George C. Marshall
Not that China is necessarily our enemy, but they are certainly a competitor, and I don’t normally borrow money from my competitors. Some interesting articles covering all sides of the USA declining(?) debate and other silliness.
America On The [...]
Days 32-36 – Wrapping it up
February 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
Day 32 – After recovering from the party the night before, Adam Supernant and I pick up a couple of our clients for a shopping outing to Dongmen. It is actually quite brisk – south China this time of year can go from the 80s to the 50s in one day – and neither of [...]
Day 31 – 恭喜发财 – PassageMaker’s Chinese New Year party!
February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
恭喜发财, gōng xǐ fā cái, wishing you a prosperous new year!
More articles and weird stuff:
Toxic Linfen – regardless of Climategate, there is still room for commonsense pollution controls in developing nations
Think You Know China? Eight Things Foreigners Get Wrong
Interesting talk on Vested Outsourcing – not sure if I care for the new buzz word, but [...]
Days 27-30 – Plenty of hard work and plenty of visitors
February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
I’ve already returned to the States a few days ago, but the last couple weeks in China were so hectic, I am filing these posts late. Days 31-37 to come shortly.
Articles, articles, articles…
Chinese diplomat: Ties with US deteriorated recently – no, really?
More from Reuters
This is just wrong – Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world’s [...]
Days 15-26 – Pollution, street food, deadlines, Hong Kong and crossing the road in China
February 5, 2010 by whit · 2 Comments
Our founder, Mike Bellamy, who evidently doesn’t have enough WORK TO DO posted the Rick Roll the other day under my name. That was his hint that I should blog more often, so here goes. Sorry for the Rick Roll. Sorry for the absence. And sorry in advance for the length of this post.
More interesting [...]
Day 14
January 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
Day 14 – Tuesday – Some interesting China article links to kick things off:
Daring blogger tests the limits
Article with some interesting graphs on Chinese military spending
Article on Google
Power rationing in China
Why America and China Will Clash
Avatar banned in China
chinaSMACK – this is an awesome news aggregation site sent to me by Dave Learn – a [...]
Days 6-13 – Shanghai Hooters, Mao’s Revenge, and rotten cell phone companies
January 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
Day 6 – Woke to steady rain after a fitful sleep. The Chinese believe in sleeping on hard beds, as it is supposed to be good for you. And when I say hard, I mean sheet of plywood hard. And how having your hips so sore you can barely get out of the bed in [...]
Further thoughts on “Karl Who?”
December 1, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
Yesterday’s post discussed the possibility of the PRC as the world’s first mature fascist state. I received a number of comments, including this from Adam Supernant in our Shenzhen office:
I wouldn’t call China fascist (fascists were xenophobes; there’s not much of a racial superiority kick in China) but it’s also not Communist…I think the political [...]
China cutting capacity
November 16, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
Adam Supernant in our Shenzhen office sent me this article after reading yesterday’s post. Key paragraphs:
China, the world’s third-largest economy, said it plans new measures to close factories to curb overcapacity and pollution after this year rejecting requests to build industrial projects worth almost 200 billion yuan ($29 billion).The government will target the steel, aluminum, [...]
I was fed up with middlemen & poorly run factories distorting pricing, failing to control quality and allowing intellectual property (IP) to be knocked off, so I decided to do something about it. 
