china in comment and analysis
China's long road to copyright
Comment As western companies seek to capitalise on the huge and potentially lucrative Chinese market that is beginning to open up, they are finding concerns about copyright turning into frustrations over counterfeiting and the lack of protection afforded... [19 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition
Comment Today parts of China look like the UK of my early childhood. According to the latest estimates out of Duke University in the US, China is graduating around 350,000 engineers and technologists every year, which is well over twice the total number of... [19 Jul 2006]
China - the exception in tech
Comment China's efforts in nurturing its own standard for 3G - the inelegantly titled TD-SCDMA - seem to be paying off and are another reminder that it is a market that may well always prove the exception to many tech rules. [11 Sep 2003]
The big picture - China's tech scene
Comment In Japan it's for entertainment and in China it will be too. In 2000, $400m-worth of software was exported from China. But Kishore Suratkal, regional technology sector head of Macquarie Bank in Hong Kong, disagrees - he says mobile phones in China... [12 Jun 2006]
Vodafone: China in its hand?
Comment And now he's won China too. Overnight there were three candidates ready to take a stake in China Mobile. China Mobile already boasts 23.9 million subscribers, growing at a current rate of two and a half million a month. [04 Oct 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China, 23 years on
Comment Twenty-three years on, I am back in China again - and what a difference! I first came to China in 1983. In recent history China is the best practical exemplar I have seen. So is absolutely everything now positive in China and for the Chinese people... [17 Jul 2006]
China's internet revolution
Comment China is a booming internet society but how are its many constituent parts embracing the medium? If you look at media in China, the government controls it, so it's not always what the people believe. But in China some would argue that traditional... [21 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment So where is the big gain for Western companies outsourcing or moving operations to China? During the past few weeks I have travelled across China and seen evidence of the decline of the old state-run industries as well as the rapid growth of the... [18 Jul 2006]
Leader: China in their hands?
Leader Taken together with news today that there are soon likely to be official restrictions coming out of China on buying from overseas vendors and we have a big issue on our hands, one that arguably is about a lot more than the none-too-small matter of... [26 Nov 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment Before I departed for China I listened to and read the debates about the country's state of freedom of speech, communication and internet traffic voiced in the EU and US. But anything I couldn't access in China was easily fixed by emailing my PA in... [07 Aug 2006]
Leader: China bound
Leader Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of China. Just today Richard Branson said Virgin is willing to invest up to $300m to launch a mobile venture in China - and he still wants to launch a Virgin Megastore in the country despite the widespread music... [05 Dec 2005]
Opinion: China's IPR woes
Comment Are violations of intellectual property rights (IPR) a threat to China's future? For the past few consecutive years, Huawei has been the number one patent applicant in China. Photos of China's street pirates here. [14 Aug 2006]
How China's universities fuel tech growth
Comment China's universities churn out millions of graduates but integration with the tech economy isn't straightforward, Dan Ilett finds. Ten years ago Cheng Peng arrived in Beijing to start an engineering degree at Tsinghua University - one of China's... [20 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 1
Comment In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. It is the hive of culture and tradition in China, I've been told, but the tall buildings are... [08 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 2
Comment In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. Mr Zhang, the CNET driver, and Susan take me to Badaling this morning to see the Great Wall of... [08 Jun 2006]
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