China Hearsay

on June 26, 2012

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I’ve been living and working in Beijing since 1999, mostly as a private lawyer with local and international law firms. As of February 2013, I moved in-house with Bentley Systems, an American software company, where I head up the Asia Legal team.

Bentley is in quite an interesting industry niche. Here is a quick window into my world, from our web page:

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Bentley’s mission is to empower its users to leverage information modeling through integrated projects for high-performing intelligent infrastructure. Its solutions encompass the MicroStation platform for infrastructure design and modeling, the ProjectWise platform for infrastructure project team collaboration and work sharing, and the AssetWise platform for infrastructure asset operations – all supporting a broad portfolio of interoperable applications and complemented by worldwide professional services.

If you followed that, you probably are in the infrastructure biz or related to it in some way (e.g., engineering, design, construction, owner/operator). If that was wholly incomprehensible, no worries (this wiki page may help).

In terms of my career in China thus far, I have covered most aspects of foreign direct investment, and my practice in recent years has been focused on technology regulatory and licensing work, intellectual property, media and entertainment, franchising and Internet-related issues.

It’s a broad area, but my private practice experience was still quite focused compared to having a general corporate practice. My current position is a mix and includes both a focus on licensing and commercial work but with broader issues, such as general corporate, HR, M&A/FDI — well, just about anything you can think of that would apply to a multinational in Asia.

I started the China Hearsay blog in 2006, and it had a great run. Some day I might bring it back, but for the time being, I’ll be sticking with social media.

The Censor at Hong Kong's South China Morning Post

By Hugo Restall on June 26, 2012

Five months ago when Wang Xiangwei was named editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's leading English-language daily, local journalists shook their heads in dismay. Mr. Wang, a former China Daily reporter and current member of Jilin province's Political Consultative Conference, had built a reputation as the newspaper's in-house censor since he became China editor in 2000. Under his leadership, they feared, the newspaper would be even more shy about breaking news unfavorable to the Chinese and Hong Kong governments.

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‘Pressure for Change is at the Grassroots

An Interview with Chen Guangcheng

By Ian Johnson on June 26, 2012

The Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States last month following top-level negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials. Several weeks earlier, Chen had dramatically escaped from house arrest in his village in northeast China by jumping over a wall at night and making his way via an underground network of relatives, friends, and supporters to the U.S. embassy in Beijing, hundreds of miles away. In May, an agreement was reached to allow the forty-one-year-old Chen to leave China with his wife and two children to study at New York University’s law school.

Isolated in Yunnan

Kachin Refugees from Burma in China’s Yunnan Province

on June 26, 2012

Since June 2011, an estimated 75,000 ethnic Kachin have hostilities between the Burmese army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Burma. Thousands of them have sought refuge in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, where the Chinese government has tolerated their stay. The report is based on more than one hundred interviews with refugees, displaced persons in Burma, victims of abuses, relief workers, and others. The interviews reveal the situation in Yunnan, where refugees lack shelter, food, sanitation, and basic health care. The report suggests that the Chinese government should provide temporary protection and allow the United Nations and humanitarian agencies to assist the refugees in Yunnan.

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Snapshots from a Rising China

By Jane Weizhen Pan, Martin Merz, Ling Wang on June 25, 2012

Mention China and people think of the Great Wall, tofu, kung fu, and of course, Confucius. They might also think of the skyscrapers in Beijing and Shanghai, and the unforgettable 2008 Olympics which heralded China’s rise as a great nation. People started to believe that China had farewelled forever the era of humiliation and tragedy, that China has truly become rich and powerful. And not just in terms of military might—China now has trillions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves and is destined to become the centre of the world.

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Sina Blog

on June 25, 2012

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We are an online media company serving China and the global Chinese communities. Our digital media network of SINA.com (portal), SINA.cn (mobile portal) and Weibo.com (social media), enable Internet users to access professional media and user generated content (“UGC”) in multi-media formats from the web and mobile devices and share their interests to friends and acquaintances.

SINA.com offers distinct and targeted professional content on each of its region specific websites and a range of complementary offerings. SINA.cn provides information and entertainment content from SINA portal customized for mobile (WAP) users. Based on an open platform architecture to host organically developed and third-party applications, Weibo.com is a form of social media, featuring microblogging services and social networking services that allow users to connect and share information anywhere, anytime and with anyone on our platform.

Through these properties and other product lines and businesses, we offer an array of online media and social networking services to our user to create a rich canvas for businesses and brand advertisers to connect and engage with their targeted audiences. We generate the majority of our revenues from online advertising, MVAS and fee-based services.

U.S.-China Public Perceptions Opinion Survey 2012

on June 25, 2012

The re-establishment of U.S.-China relations in 1971 marked a strategic step that ended China’s isolation and transformed the global balance of power. Since that historic milestone, the United States as an established superpower and China as an emerging global power stand at the crossroads of cooperation and competition. Washington and Beijing understand the high stakes and hard choices involved in finding common ground amid global market uncertainty, security risks, and domestic pressures.

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This American Life

on June 24, 2012

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This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners. It is produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcastin the country, with another 2.5 million people downloading each episode.

From 2006-2008, we produced a television version of This American Life on the Showtime network, which won three Emmys. We also co-created, with NPR News, the economics podcast and blog Planet Money. A half dozen stories from the radio show are being developed into films. In 2014, we launched our first spinoff show,Serial, a podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig.