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Stop Calling It A Cold War

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Graham Webster

From Technology Review’s The US and China aren’t in a “cold war,” so stop calling it that, by Graham Webster:

Unlike the US and USSR, in which science and technology developed on largely independent tracks, the US and China are part of a globally intertwined ecosystem. As an example, ZTE, the Chinese maker of network equipment and smartphones, was…

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Fake news on Weibo stokes support for Trump in China

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Christina Xu

Update: This post has been expanded into a full article. Please see our follow-up: Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future.


Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt of Christina’s recent tweetstorm. Read the full thread (including the various replies).

This is the top story on Weibo rn, pushed…

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Tencent buys into Groupon’s secret sauce

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Jason Li

Tencent, the company known for its ubiquitous and domineering IM (or QQ) client in China, has partnered up with the American Groupon to launch its China branch. The resulting site is called GaoPeng 高朋 and takes on the Groupon look and feel:

As we reported back in 2006 (under our old moniker Virtual China), the internet…

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