“Filtered or not, a long-fragmented China now has a viable and rapidly expanding network. The power of that network – especially insofar as economic, social, and political change is concerned – is hard to predict. But connectivity adds a new dimension of cohesion to modern China. That can only accelerate the speed of its extraordinary development journey.”

Interesting look into some reasons that could keep you from doing internet business in China. Links to an original Article on China Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/8-things-to-know-investing-chinese-internet-companies-2011-10?op=1

Very interesting power struggle – but who are the strugglers?? The first interesting development in Chinese telecoms markets in years.

The China Quarterly recently made the ten most popular articles from the past decade available for free download on their website. The articles include:

* Reconsidering the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries by Yang Kuisong

* Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party’s Embrace of the Private Sector by Bruce J. Dickson

* The Changing Ecology of Foreign Policy-Making in China: The Ascension and Demise of the Theory of “Peaceful Rise” by Bonnie S Glaser and Evan S Medeiros

* Mao in Perspective by Jack Gray

* An Emerging Environmental Movement in China? by Phillip Stalley and Dongning Yang

* China’s Household Income and Its Distribution, 1995 and 2002 by Azizur Rahman Khan and Carl Riskin

* Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China’s One-Child Policy by Susan Greenhalgh

* Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China by Guobin Yang

* The Chinese Energy Security Debate by Erica S. Downs

* Belief in Control: Regulation of Religion in China by Pitman B. Potter

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialArticle?jid=CQY&bespokeId=3224

More Chinese Films Headed for the U.S. – China Real Time Report – WSJ.

I am not sure whether you really need a day and date simultaneous release of Chinese productions in the US, but good luck with this, you will need it…

Rumor: China Unicom to Launch WCDMA SIM Card Sticker | Marbridge Consulting – China Wireless News.

This is a product rumored about for a while, and seems to be sold under the counter at China Unicom already. I would love to hear whether anybody has tried it out yet, it seems like a sketchy solution, but you never know…

An editorial in today’s People’s Daily again deals with the issue of open government information (OGI), arguing that while OGI faces many challenges in China, it is the way forward for both the public and the Party

Sitting in China, one easily forgets about other area’s internet troubles, let’s take Turkey for example:

Turkey Backs off Tighter Internet Controls – Information Policy.

Chris Evdemon, GM of Incubation Programs at InnovationWorks, has updated his excellent presentation on China’s Early Stage Ecosystem about China’s trends, technologies, financing, and InnovationWorks itself.

The new brooms brush slowly: