Day 37 – Home
February 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment
My Blackberry Storm 2 from Verizon Wireless has been progressively crapping out on this trip. It is not a good device, and the longer I have it, the less impressed I am. In addition to the outrageous charges to receive calls – I practically had to hang up on a few clients to get them [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Battle Between U.S. and China Threatens Climate Conference
December 17, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
Fascinating article about the politicking going on in Copenhagen. Regardless of what the greens want, China and India won’t be going along. They have too many mouths to feed. And they especially won’t be going along after Climategate and the recent Russian bombshell.
2010 should be an interesting year.
Climategate and pollution in China
December 3, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
I’ve written about the ghastly pollution in China before (here, here, here, here and here). With the recent bomb of “Climategate“, much of the core data supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) has been called into question. I am not going to get into a debate about AGW, or whether a trace gas [...]
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, [...]
This is just too funny
November 13, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment
OK, so I’m feeling lazy today, but there really isn’t anything I can add to this (from Popular Science):
China’s Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm to Beijing
By Clay Dillow Posted 11.11.2009 at 6:08 pm
Forecast for Beijing: Cloudy The Chinese government employs the controversial practice of cloud seeding in an attempt to force precipitation in and around [...]
1500 new cars a day in Beijing
November 5, 2009 by aggc · Leave a Comment
Continuing the pollution in China thread, here’s a short opinion piece by Stephen Cass in Technology Review which claims that 1500 new cars are added to the streets of Beijing each day (the excellent photo from that article is below). I don’t know where he got that number, but I’m going to assume that he’s right. A [...]
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. 
