Comments on: Guest Blogger – China Confidential

By: Ellen Weber

Ellen Weber — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:16:04 +0000

… interesting …

it’s true — communication is so the key and yet when we get it right the results can be so rewarding! Thanks for getting it right so often Bill!

By: panasianbiz

panasianbiz — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:28:23 +0000

Communication is key. If we are not communicating by whatever, any means, we are not going to understand one another.

By: Ellen Weber

Ellen Weber — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:03:35 +0000

recently I taught an MBA course on ethics in China, and business leaders taking that class showed me another angle.

After each chapter of our text I asked MBA students (who were also successful business leaders in many cases) to ask and answer ethical questions that impact China.

Questions and responses blew my thinking out of the water.

It left me with the realization that we'd be better off if we created roundtables (much like fireside chats) across cultures where we learn from as much as we teach others who lead.

What do you think of that possibility to create a better way across the pond?

By: Know More Media

Know More Media — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:04:49 +0000

We were privileged to hear from another solid group of new voices on Thursday. They were: David Schappell: ‘How to Encourage Blogging by Customer-Facing Employees?’ on KnowMoreMedia. Ruth Schaffer: ‘Potential Market for Novel Al…

By: PanAsianBiz

PanAsianBiz — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:39:42 +0000

My guest blogger, Confidential Reporter got me to thinking when he wrote his Blogger’s Editorial Wish-list. And I still don’t know the answer…so forgive me for thinking out loud. I read a report by Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post which…

By: PanAsianBiz

PanAsianBiz — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:23:38 +0000

My guest blogger, Chinese Confidential has started an excellent discussion and I hope others will weigh in with their contribution. In short China Confidential says China is still not to be fully trusted. I don’t know the answer. From where I…

By: panasianbiz

panasianbiz — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:03:21 +0000

But, can't collaboration (Yahoo and Google)be a stepping stone? Don't we need to have some interaction before we can have full interaction? Isn't there a need to do something to establish trust? Share technology?

Or do you think this is a sign of acquiesing to the Chinese? Should political change come first or will it come as a result of cooperation?

I guess I have more questions than answers now.

By: China Confidential

China Confidential — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:57:52 +0000

Thank you. Please check out our posting this week on the Internet cops searching fcr signs of subversive activity on the Left (a matter of snooping rather than blocking). As for specific suggestions, given the fawning attitude of giant US companies supplying the filtering technology (Cisco and Microsoft) and collaborating in the censorship and snooping (Yahoo and Google), I’m afraid real change requires political reform, which China’s rulers are resisting.

By: panasianbiz

panasianbiz — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:50:14 +0000

Those are great points.

I have a blog planned for today or tomorrow about China's 'Web Cops'.

So, what do you think can be done - I know there is no easy answer - to alleviate the distrust that still exists.

Discussion in places like this can be helpful.

Do you have any other practical ideas?

By: China Confidential

China Confidential — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:30:33 +0000

The “paranoia” is evident in many ways, from efforts to control the Internet to the missile buildup against Taiwan–nearly 800 missiles with 40-50 added each year– and the law authorizing military force if the breakaway island moves toward formal independence or simply if reunification efforts ultimately fail.

Under the present authoritarian system, where you can be arrested for worshiping in the wrong church or handing out leftwing leaflets, where over 30,000 cybercops scan the Internet daily in search of suspicious sites and surfing, it is inconceivable that the mass demos and violent protests were not heavily manipulated and influenced by the government. Reporters on the scene confirmed suspicions of manipulation and outright control.