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Tag Archives: china
What does China *really* know about cutting-edge technology, anyway?
A couple of anecdotes to remember before accepting the conventional wisdom that all China is good for is mass-producing (or copying) non-Chinese tech products (i.e. iPhones): From Seymour Hersh’s recent New Yorker piece examining the hype of cyber-warfare: A few… Continue reading
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Who better understands freedom of the press? An Apple supplier, or Chinese state police?
A Reuters reporter tried to photograph, from the street, a Foxconn plant that was rumored to be manufacturing parts for Apple products. Foxconn guards chased him, stopped the taxi he tried to escape in, and tried to drag him into… Continue reading
Clinton in China, and “Internet Freedom”
“As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.” – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 21, 2010
China: Science, and “Avatar”
A couple of interrelated China articles on today’s NYT.com: The first is a discussion on its “Room for Debate” blog on whether China will become a leader in science. The first writer, Gordon G. Chang, is a harsh skeptic: China’s… Continue reading
Google publicly calls out China over hacking of human rights advocates’ accounts
On the Google Blog, Google’s chief legal counsel David Drummond reveals that a “highly sophisticated and targeted” attack on its corporate infrastructure was traced back to China. The objective, Google believes, was to compromise the GMail accounts of Chinese human-rights… Continue reading