Huawei – Taking a Fall, Hoping for a Call
Pardon the soccer reference. But to my mind, that is the Huawei move. But Huawei has the support of the fans, at least in China, and they are vocal.Don Clarke, professor of law at George Washington University, has penned this response to the declaration of the Zhong Lun law firm …
What Chinese are talking about … fake news
You know that China is increasing pressure on every state it can bully. The bullying is easiest when the victim state has a substantial share of its GDP connected to China, whether as exports or as Chinese FDI coming in. Now come fake news stories published in China, quoting New …
A Note on the Middle Income Trap
In the last couple of years, a number of China political observers have commented on the dangers to China of the middle income trap. The fear is that the Chinese economy will fall into the trap. Since economic growth is the remaining claim to legitimacy for CCP, a substantial slowdown …
Huawei – Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas
You know the meme – when you work with bad guys, you should expect to be labeled a bad guy. I mean no disrespect to the thousands of Chinese companies doing business across the world that manage to be profitable without intimate Chinese government relations. But in our globalized, internet …
Idle Thought – last week in January, 2019
What if this past weekend were the beginning of the end for the orange haired baboon? And, in the process, the GOP were so damaged that even a Pence presidency couldn’t do much harm, and we gained a president in 2020 who was smart, thoughtful, respected intelligence and loyalty to …
Life in School – and Beyond
November, 2009 note: This was written more than ten years ago, when I began teaching full time in China. Some slight editing and updating. My students were all undergrads in business, marketing, civil engineering, or urban planning. These notes are early observations on student life at ZUST in Hangzhou. I can’t …
