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05.31.19
What Exactly Is the Story with China’s Rare Earths?
from ChinaFile
Deng Xiaoping reportedly said that while the Middle East has oil, China has rare earths. On May 29, Communist Party newspaper the People’s Daily warned of the United States’ “uncomfortable” dependence on Chinese rare earths: “Will rare earths become...
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05.10.18Take a Look around Huawei’s Headquarters in China
CNBC
It’s several minutes before noon on a Thursday afternoon at Huawei’s headquarters.
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02.06.18China Smartphone Sales down for First Time since 2009
Financial Times
Sales of smartphones in China — the world’s biggest market, responsible for roughly one in every three shipments — declined last year for the first time since 2009, slumping 4.9 per cent year on year according to preliminary data from research group...
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01.26.18China's Eight-Year-Long Smartphone Growth Comes to an End
BBC
The decline ends eight years' growth in the world's largest mobile phone market.
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11.28.17For China’s High-Flying Tycoons, a Precarious Balance
NPR
Flush with credit, LeEco expanded aggressively overseas. But the company overextended itself, its credit began to dry up — and by May, it had to lay off most of its workers in the U.S.
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11.21.17Skype Vanishes from App Stores in China, Including Apple’s
New York Times
For almost a month, Skype, the internet phone call and messaging service, has been unavailable on a number of sites where apps are downloaded in China, including Apple’s app store in the country.
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10.17.17The Communist App Store: China's Endless Apps for Tracking, Organizing, and Motivating Party Members
Quartz
China’s Communist Party is getting into app development big time, with dozens of apps to educate and promote social networking among party members hitting the country’s Apple and Android app stores.
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10.16.17China’s Huawei Could Overtake Apple This Year in Smartphones, Top Analyst Says
CNBC
In the second quarter of this year, Huawei held a 11.3 percent market share, shipping 38.5 million units, IDC data show. Apple meanwhile shipped 41 million iPhones and had a 12 percent market share in the same period.
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09.13.17The Rise and Rise of China's Xiaomi in India
Forbes
A couple of years ago in 2015, MIT Technology Review ranked Xiaomi number 2 on their list of 50 Smartest Companies -- a list that also had companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft who were rated far below the Chinese smartphone and smart home...
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07.12.17KFC—Yes That KFC—Is Selling Its Own Smartphones in China
CNBC
Kentucky Fried Chicken celebrated its 30th anniversary of operations in China by unveiling a limited edition smartphone it had collaborated on with Chinese smartphone maker Huawei.
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03.22.17Uber for Bikes: How ‘Dockless’ Cycles Flooded China—and Are Heading Overseas
Guardian
New cycle-share firms in China allow you to simply drop your bike wherever you want. They have caused colourful chaos – and world cities could be next
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02.01.17Apple Renaissance in China Key for iPhone 8 Success but It Faces a Tough Road Ahead
CNBC
Apple’s fiscal first quarter results showed a bit of stabilization in China and “record revenues” in India, according to CEO Tim Cook, but the U.S. technology giant still faces challenges in these emerging but increasingly “critical” markets.
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01.29.17Apple iPhone Toppled from No. 1 Spot in China for the First Time in 5 Years Making Firm ‘Vulnerable’: Research
CNBC
Apple’s iPhone has failed to clinch the title for the top selling smartphone in China for the first time since 2012, making the U.S. technology giant “vulnerable” in the world‘s second-largest economy
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12.29.16How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
New York Times
A hidden bounty of benefits for Foxconn’s plant in Zhengzhou, the world’s biggest iPhone factory, is central to the production of Apple’s most profitable product
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11.02.16A Toddler Dies as Her Mother Checks Her Phone, and China Wrings Its Hands
New York Times
The toddler’s death has led to an outpouring of anger on Chinese social media about the dangers of being obsessed with one’s phone
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09.27.16China’s Xiaomi Guns for Apple with Latest Premium Smartphone
Bloomberg
The Mi S5 is a luxury phone costing less than half the most expensive iPhone
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06.22.16A ‘Black and Smelly’ Job: The Search for China’s Most Polluted Rivers
Guardian
China gives anyone with a smartphone a chance to orchestrate a much needed clean-up....
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06.01.16China's Smartphone Billionaire Forges Alliance With Microsoft For Patent Portfolio
Forbes
Xiaomi is buying about 1,500 patents from Microsoft to support its international expansion.
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05.19.16
Backward Thinking about Orientalism and Chinese Characters
For those of us who teach and research the Chinese language, it is often difficult to describe how the Chinese characters function in conveying meaning and sound, and it’s always a particular challenge to explain how the writing system differs from...
Media
05.12.16
Chinese Is Not a Backward Language
Even in the age of China’s social media boom, and billion-dollar valuations for Beijing-based IT start-ups, prejudice against the Chinese language is alive and well. One would be forgiven for thinking that by 2016, the 20th century’s widespread...
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11.20.15China Aims to Build Its Own Secure Smartphones
Wall Street Journal
State-owned and private tech firms team up to cut cord to U.S. suppliers.
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08.24.15Apple Stock Recovers After Tim Cook Email Praises China Sale
New York Times
CEO Tim Cook emailed “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer to say the App Store in China had its best performance of the year in the last two weeks.
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06.23.15
The Brother Orange Saga
from Sinica Podcast
The story started when a Buzzfeed editor lost his iPhone in an East Village bar in February of last year and blossomed into the Sino-American romance of the century, and probably the most up-lifting and altogether unlikely China story that we can...
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04.14.15The Netflix of China Is Invading the US With Smartphones
Wired
LeTV launched its Internet video streaming service three years before Netflix (2004 versus 2007).
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03.27.15Apple is Hitler, says Chinese CEO
Verge
Chinese tech firm LeTV is rumored to be entering the smartphone market.
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02.09.15Alibaba To Pay $590 Mln For Stake In China’s Meizu As Smartphone Competition Intensifies
Forbes
All eyes are on low-price Chinese upstart Xiaomi.
Media
01.08.15
What Will Happen to Uber in China?
Ride-sharing app Uber has expanded around the world at a blistering pace, launching in a new city every one or two days. At first glance, China would appear the ideal fit for the Silicon Valley startup. Most urban residents in the world’s second-...
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09.10.14
iPhone 6: Designed in California, Leaked in China
China’s cyberspace is bursting with anticipation for the iPhone 6—never mind that it promises to cost more than most citizens make in a month. Apple, the U.S.-based company that designs and sells the iPhone, had scheduled a major announcement about...
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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
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04.28.14Apple, Be Afraid: China's Xiaomi Going Global
Forbes
Xiaomi’s Mi3 in China is cheaper than the iPhone 5c—1,999 yuan versus 4,488. No wonder Xiaomi outsells Apple, shipping 7.3 million phones in the fourth quarter of last year over Apple's 7 million.
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01.14.14Foxconn Reportedly Ships Nearly 1.5M iPhone 5s Units for China Mobile launch
Wall Street Journal
Apple sales slow in the face of competition from Samsung, Lenovo, Yulong and Huawei.
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09.19.13Cheap iPhone Not Cheap Enough in China
Wall Street Journal
Apple stands to gain sales in China more than any other market from the cheaper offering thanks to the country’s huge number of low- and middle-income smartphone users. But in China the new iPhone quite frankly won’t be all that cheap.
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06.27.12
Cash for China’s Homegrown Smartphone
Xiaomi Mobile Internet Co. has raised US$216 million, its CEO says, raising the total value of the upstart, homegrown Chinese smartphone maker to US$4 billion.If Lei Jun’s claim is accurate, his two-year-old company’s value is close to the market...