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Stir Fried China
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Seriously spicy, oily and salty China technology, political, and lifestyle news analysis.
Recent Posts
Was This China’s Decade?
Over the last few weeks, some people have been saying that 2000-2009 was China’s decade, including Fareed Zakaria. China’s acendency was also named the most read news story of the decade. Having spent the majority of this decade in Chin...
Expect China’s Citizenry to Embrace Obama
This is Part 2 of my pre-visit thoughts on President Obama’s visit to China next week. In Part 1 I focused on issues, but here I want to talk about why I think that Obama will get a very warm welcome in China next week (despite some Chinese Eng...
Obama in China, What to Expect – Part 1
President Barack Obama will make his first trip to China as president on November 16-18, first in Shanghai and then in Beijing. He is the first president to make the trip in his first year in office, and follows on the heels of earlier meetings this ...
China Mobile – Half a Billion Users and Counting
China Mobile announced their third quarter results yesterday, as well as one little, small tidbit of a milestone – they just passed half a billion subscribers. However, even with 508 million users and plans to have 3G networks set up in 238 cit...
China’s GAPP to foreign investors: You Don’t Have Game
China’s GAPP (General Administration of Press and Publication) announced yesterday that foreign investment in China’s online gaming industry won’t be allowed (I presume from this point on and not retroactive). In this case, foreign...
When will China’s Golden Weeks End?
Everyone goes back to work today in China after 7 days of forced vacation known as a Golden Week, this one for the October 1 National Day (the other two being the first week of May and Chinese New Year). To cut right to the quick, the Golden Weeks si...

