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Tag Archives: Business
Sinica: The gutter oil podcast (and props from City Weekend!)
I was back on Sinica this week for a lively discussion of China’s serial and apparently unsolvable food quality problems as well as SARFT’s recent ban on Hunan TV’s smash hit performance competition show, “Super Girl.” As usual, the guests … Continue reading
Four lessons from the Burson-Facebook fiasco
I’m ridiculously late to this, as usual, but people keep asking me about the Burson-Facebook thing because of my years at Burson, so I thought I’d post the gist of the response I’ve been giving. If you’re not familiar with … Continue reading
Sinica: Osama, Saab goes Chinese, regulatory fun and May 4th
The latest Sinica is up, hosted by Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei with yours truly participating for the first time in a couple of months along with repeat offenders Gady Epstein, Charlie Custer and Jeremiah Jenne. Topics for the week included … Continue reading
Spamtastic use of Mao Zedong Thought
One of the fringe benefits of my job and of having my e-mail on the corporate website as a media contact has been a Cambrian explosion in the variety of spam e-mails I get. Notable among them is this machine-translated … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Resident Alien, Weird, Whatever
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Goodbye GMIC, hello CHINICT
It must be technology conference season in Beijing! Imagethief found himself at the Global Mobile Internet Conference last Wednesday as I was escorting one of our vice presidents who was participating in a panel on the future of mobile devices. … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Internet, Technology
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Capital M Trialogues: On “brand China” and soft power
On Sunday I had the pleasure of participating in an excellent discussion at the Capital-M Trialogue alongside my good friends David Wolf, of Wolf Group Asia, and Kaiser Kuo, of Baidu but probably better known to Imagethief readers as the … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, China in the News, Media, Politics, Pop Culture, Public Relations, Reputation, Soft Power, Trade, USA
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Further to the dairy industry and naughty PR in China
I’ve always wanted to use the words “naughty” and “dairy” in the same sentence. But more on that some other time. I put a link to Gady Epstein’s excellent post on the recent dairy industry PR meltdown in my own earlier … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Ethics, Journalism, Media, Public Relations, Reputation
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Congratulations! China milk industry assumes bogeyman status
Continuing the reputational implosion of the Chinese milk industry, I was interested to see this pithy remark in a People’s Daily (English) article about inaccurate school textbooks in Shanghai: Ye Kai, a writer, denounced that reading such textbooks is like … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Public Relations, Reputation
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And you thought the milk business was so wholesome…
The milk business in China just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. A couple of months ago baby formula maker Synutra found itself the victim of allegations that its product was linked to early puberty in girls. Its shares … Continue reading
Monetize this!
I hate the word “monetize.” I don’t mind the idea of “monetization”, in the sense of making money or making a business profitable. I like a paycheck and a profitable business as much as the next capitalist (within limits – … Continue reading
Tagged Business, Public Relations, Rants
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