Absurdity, Allegory and China

Google just can’t seem to keep themselves out of the news. With the developing tales of Chinese hacking – possibly traced to Jiaotong Univertsity in Shangahi and a particular class taught by a Ukranian prof at Lanxiang Vocational School in Shandong province – and their warning to China that they would be, sometime in the [...]

[Read more →]

A provocative question was posed at DigiCha in the title of a blog post a few days back: Will Google, Facebook and Twitter Please Join as Sponsors of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010
What better message could the USA send to the world than to have the three standard bearers of 21st century [...]

[Read more →]

A post at ESWN (EastSouthWestNorth) entitled The Truth About The Google Affair claims to have information of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plants within Google’s Shanghai office. While this in itself would not be a surprise, that it took so little time for it to actually become public is. The post is “a translation of an [...]

[Read more →]

When Google made the decision to accept censorship constraints in order to enter the Chinese market, Google Inc.’s CEO Eric Schmidt stated, “We concluded that although we weren’t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all. We actually did an ‘evil’ scale and decided ‘not to [...]

[Read more →]

There is not much that I can add to Google’s A new approach to China. What does all this mean? In the words of Zhou Enlai, “It’s too soon to tell.” A quick scan of the Xinhua home page turns up China seeks clarity on Google’s intentions buried in the Sci/Tech section. It has been [...]

[Read more →]

At approximately 16:57 this afternoon (June 2, 2009) in Tianjin Flickr flickered off. Actually there was no flicker about it. Someone here in China threw the switch and that was that. Twitter too has flown the coop. In the moments leading up to the June 4th Tiananmen Square 20th anniversary China has decided that too [...]

[Read more →]