ChinaFile Recommends
08.22.14Chinese Gadgets Signal New Era of Innovation
Wall Street Journal
Baseball Bat Sensors, Smart Bathroom Scales.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.17.14China’s Carbon Plans: Secrecy and Oversupply Darken Outlook
Reuters
The world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases risks repeating mistakes made in carbon trading in Europe by flooding its pilot markets with free permits.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.17.14Features
08.14.14
Making It in China and the U.S.
Emily Parker is a creator of Green Electronics: A U.S.-China Maker Challenge. The Green Electronics Challenge was an unprecedented collaboration between the New America Foundation, Arizona State University, Slate Magazine, China’s Tsinghua...
Video
08.12.14
Chinese Dreamers
A dream, in the truest sense, is a solo act. It can’t be created by committee or replicated en masse. Try as you might, you can’t compel your neighbor to conjure up the reverie that you envision. And therein lies the latent, uncertain energy in the...
ChinaFile Recommends
08.07.14China Cracks Down on Messaging Apps
Wall Street Journal
China says rules aim to 'Help Build a Clean Cyberspace' and safeguard national security
ChinaFile Recommends
08.06.14China Regulator Probes Microsoft, Accenture Offices
Wall Street Journal
Inspection is latest move in country's antitrust investigation of U.S. tech companies.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.04.14Forget Samsung, Xiaomi is China’s New Smartphone King
CNN
The upstart Chinese smartphone maker has knocked Samsung off its throne in China, shipping more units than its South Korea-based rival for the first time in the second quarter.</p
ChinaFile Recommends
08.04.14Death Toll Rises to 75 in Chinese Factory Blast
Associated Press
The death toll in for an explosion at a Chinese auto parts factory has risen to 75 people, as investigators fault poor safety measures and news reports reveal that workers had long complained of dangerous levels of dust.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.04.14China Using Antimonopoly Law to Pressure Foreign Businesses
Wall Street Journal
Experts say Beijing seeking greater sway over prices paid by Chinese companies and consumers.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.04.14What Microsoft Has Done Right (And Wrong) In China With Xbox One
Forbes
Half a year after China lifted its console ban, allowing gaming consoles to be legally sold within the country for the first time in over a decade, China’s console gamers are yet to get their hands on anything.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.04.14The War of Words in China
New York Times
I didn't ask for a Wikipedia page, but a few months ago, alerted by a friend, I found that someone had created one, ostensibly devoted to my journalistic achievements, but accusing me of writing over 400 mostly negative articles on China.
ChinaFile Recommends
08.03.14What Microsoft Has Done Right (And Wrong) In China With Xbox One
Forbes
Now that we have some details about the Chinese Xbox One—a price, a release date, game pricing and lineup, etc.—it’s possible to assess Microsoft’s chances of making a bigger dent in the market than gray-market consoles have.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.31.14China Harasses U.S. Tech Companies
New York Times
China has opened what appear to be politically motivated antitrust investigations into American technology companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm. Foreign companies operating in the Communist country could be in for more intense harassment than ever...
ChinaFile Recommends
07.30.14Microsoft, the ‘Guardian Warriors’ and China’s Cybersecurity Fears
Wall Street Journal
Last year, a Chinese magazine with ties to the Communist party set its sights on eight big U.S. tech companies that have “seamlessly infiltrated China.”
ChinaFile Recommends
07.30.14Fall of Zhou Yongkang Lights Up China’s Internet
Wall Street Journal
China’s social media microblogs, the country’s de facto town square, have for more than a year seethed with oblique flecks at the fate of former security chief Zhou Yongkang.
Conversation
07.24.14
Alibaba: How Big a Deal Is It?
When Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public some time after Labor Day it is expected be one the largest initial public offerings in history. This week, a story in The New York Times shed light on ties between Alibaba and the sons and grandsons...
ChinaFile Recommends
07.23.14Chinese Blogger Jailed For ‘Rumor-Mongering’
Rakyat Post
A Chinese blogger known for criticizing the ruling Communist Party was sentenced on Wednesday to six-and-a-half years in jail, state media said, as authorities pursue a crackdown on online “rumors”.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.22.14Chinese Social Media Shrinks by 7% During Internet Crackdown
China Digital Times
According to China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Chinese Internet users logging on to social media websites declined by 7.4% percent in the first half of 2014 amid a year of slow Internet usage growth.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.21.14More Internet Companies Should Go Abroad
Xinhua
More Chinese Internet companies should compete internationally, as they now have the ability and can make the world’s cyber environment more balanced and just.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.18.14Alibaba Plans IPO for After Labor Day
Wall Street Journal
Chinese e-commerce giant plans robust 'roadshow' to pitch deal.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.17.14Undermining China, One Knockout at a Time
New York Times
While blustering essays stoking Chinese nationalism are nothing new, Zhou Xiaoping’s piece on the “real-life war” being waged on the Internet seems to have enjoyed unusually broad circulation.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.16.14China’s Censors Take Aim at Popular Internet TV Operators That Offer Foreign Shows
South China Morning Post
Seven companies told ‘unauthorized’ content will be taken down in seven days and they could see license revoked if breach is found.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.15.14Chinese Hackers Extending Reach to Smaller U.S. Agencies, Officials Say
New York Times
After years of cyberattacks on the networks of high-profile government targets like the Pentagon, Chinese hackers appear to have turned their attention to far more obscure federal agencies.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.14.14All Aboard: China’s Railway Dream
BBC
At Asia’s biggest rail cargo base in Chengdu in south-west China, the cranes are hard at work, swinging containers from trucks onto a freight train. The containers are filled with computers, clothes, even cars.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.14.1421st Century Fox to Sell Its Stake in China’s Bona Film Group
Hollywood Reporter
Investment group Fosun raises its stake as Bona CEO Yu Dong buys the Fox stake, saying the move would not affect ongoing co-productions, including "Bride Wars."
ChinaFile Recommends
07.13.14China Requires 30% of State Cars Use Alternative Energy
Bloomberg
China is mandating that electric cars make up at least 30 percent of government vehicle purchases by 2016, the latest measure to fight pollution and cut energy use after exempting the autos from a purchase tax.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.11.14How Will Cyber Spying Impact U.S., China Relations?
Bloomberg
Asia Society Senior Fellow Jamie Metzl discusses cyber spying and U.S., China relations and the re-militarization of Japan on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
ChinaFile Recommends
07.11.14Watchdog Alleges Child Labor at Samsung Supplier Plant
Wall Street Journal
A China Labor Watch reports alleges that one of Samsung's suppliers in China employs and underpays and undertrains children. Samsung says it is investigating the claims.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.11.14China Labels iPhone a Security Threat
Wall Street Journal
Report cites researchers who say tracking app could expose 'state secrets.'
ChinaFile Recommends
07.09.14Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers
New York Times
Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials.
Conversation
07.09.14
The U.S. and China Are At the Table: What’s At Stake?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew are in Beijing this week for the sixth session of the high level bilateral diplomatic exchange known as the Strategic and Economic Dialogue. We asked contributors what's likely...
ChinaFile Recommends
07.08.14The Untold Story of China’s Forgotten Underground Nuclear Reactor
Foreign Policy
How social media and a little sleuthing turned up a Mao-era nuclear program.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.08.14County-Level E-Commerce: Next Driver of China’s Online Shopping
Huxiu
From 2003 to 2013, the number of county-level e-commerce merchants grew from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and to millions.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.08.14Chinese Social Network For Moms Gets $20 Million
Tech in Asia
A Chinese social network for mothers has secured US$20 million in series B funding to help it grow. LMBang already has 20 million registered users, of whom 2.6 million are daily active users.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.07.14U.S. Pushes China to Give Ground on Technology Trade Deal
Reuters
The United States on Monday urged China to give ground on a deal to eliminate duties on billions of dollars of technology products and said it would use talks in Beijing later this week to push to restart negotiations.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.07.14From Mountains, Island, Secret Town, China’s Electronic Spy Shop Watches
Wall Street Journal
Using Chinese government websites, academic databases and foreign security expertise, The Wall Street Journal assembled an overview of some secret operations of China's global monitoring organization, the Third Department of the People's...
ChinaFile Recommends
07.07.14China Thinks It Can Defeat America in Battle
Week
China is wrong — and for one major reason. It apparently disregards the decisive power of America's nuclear-powered submarines.
ChinaFile Recommends
07.04.14An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum
New York Times
In recent months, Chinese microblogging service Weibo has been eclipsed by the Facebook-like WeChat, which allows instant messaging within self-selected circles of followers.
Culture
07.01.14
Inside the Mind of a Chinese Hacker
In May, the U.S. announced the indictment of five Chinese hackers for breaking into the computers of U.S. companies. The men went by code names like UglyGorilla and KandyGoo. A recent report revealed that the hackers, who worked for Unit 61398 of...
Caixin Media
07.01.14
China Pulling the Plug on Foreign Mainframes
E-commerce companies and banks in China are scrapping hardware and uninstalling software for mainframe servers made by American suppliers in favor of homegrown brands said to be safe, advanced, and a lot less expensive.The movement has taken special...
ChinaFile Recommends
06.24.14China is Building Phoenix Towers, the World’s Tallest Twin Skyscrapers
News.com.au
Chinese builders have ambitious designs on erecting the world’s tallest skyscraper, soaring more than more 3,000 feet into the heavens.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.23.14China’s Henan Province Creating Jobs in US Hinterlands
Associated Press
Henan's Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant that will employ more than 300 in a county known less for job opportunities than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests rich with wild turkey and boar.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.20.14Zhang Lei has Lunch with the FT
Financial Times
The billionaire Chinese financier was among the first to see the potential in homegrown internet companies. He talks about a career that began when he rented out comics at the age of seven.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.13.14ISU Student Tried to Smuggle Technology to China
Iowa City Press Citizen
An Iowa State University graduate student has apparently been held in a New Mexico jail without bond since February, and a television station reported that he is suspected of trying to illegally transfer specialized equipment to China.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.11.14Alibaba Acquires UCWeb, Maker Of China’s Most Popular Mobile Browser
TechCrunch
Alibaba, already an investor in UCWeb, will buy all remaining shares of the web browser and search company. The two firms announced the merger, one of the most significant among Chinese Internet companies to date, earlier today.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.10.14The World Cup: Brought to You by One of China's Greenest Corporations
Global Post
Yingli's got solar panels, and Latin America's got sun. Hey, perfect match.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.05.14China Under-Reports Defence Spending, Says US
BBC
China has under-reported its 2014 defense spending by about 20%, according to an annual report put out by the US defense department.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.05.14Accel’s Breyer to Partner With Venture Capital Firm in China
New York Times
James Breyer, the venture capitalist who made a fortune with an early bet on Facebook, is putting some of his winnings to work in partnership with Beijing-based IDG Capital to invest in tech start-ups.
ChinaFile Recommends
06.05.14China Escalates Its War on American Tech Firms
Time
The Chinese government, angered by Washington's charge that Beijing engages in cyberspying, is looking for some payback.
ChinaFile Recommends
05.31.14American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
New York Times
Chinese officials are ramping up political and economic pressure on the United States following indictments against five members of the Chinese Army on charges of economic cyberespionage.
ChinaFile Recommends
05.28.14China Cleans Up the Internet by Squelching Dissent
Businessweek
A new government campaign aims to crack down on spreading “rumors” and harmful information through chat groups on instant messaging services such as Tencent’s WeChat.
ChinaFile Recommends
05.28.14Meet ‘Crazy Jack,’ China’s E-Commerce Titan
Foreign Policy
A former employee says Jack Ma sees himself as an artist, not a businessman.
Sinica Podcast
05.27.14
History of the Internet in China
from Sinica Podcast
The Internet has always been near and dear to our hearts here at Sinica. Four years ago, our very first show covered Google China and the fracas that followed their decision to pull out of China. And in the years since, we've frequently talked...
ChinaFile Recommends
05.27.14China Calls Out Cisco For Cyber Snooping
International Business Times
China Youth Daily claimed that Cisco, “carries on intimately with the U.S. government and military, exploiting its market advantage in the Chinese information networks."
ChinaFile Recommends
05.26.14Investigation Confirms U.S. Snooping Activities Against China: Report
Xinhua
A Chinese Internet information body said an investigation has confirmed "the existence of snooping activities directed against China" by the U.S., as exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
ChinaFile Recommends
05.22.14China Threatens Security Checks for Tech Firms After U.S. Indictments
New York Times
China will establish new procedures to assess potential security problems with Internet technology and services used by sectors “related to national security and the public interest.”
ChinaFile Recommends
05.21.14China Accuses U.S. of Hypocrisy Amid Charges of Economic Espionage
Al Jazeera
Unresolved allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on a Chinese telecoms giant Huawei have resurfaced amid growing anger from Chinese officials over accusations that the PLA hacked American databases.
Conversation
05.19.14
Is This the Best Response to China’s Cyber-Attacks?
On Monday, the United States Attorney General Eric Holder accused China of hacking American industrial giants such as U.S. Steel and Westinghouse Electric, making unprecedented criminal charges of cyper-espionage against Chinese...
ChinaFile Recommends
05.12.14China’s Coal Dependency Threatens Efforts to Curb Warming
New York Times
China's coal consumption contributes one-fifth of the world’s total emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, which, if it continues, will make it change “almost impossible."