Little Rice

I asked if Nokia’s management had an answer to the iPhone. He replied grimly, “They don’t even understand the question.”

there are only three universally personal items that someone will carry with them no matter where they live. The first two are money and keys; the third is the mobile phone, making it the first new invention added to that short list in three thousand years.

single greatest resource for understanding China’s day-to-day political and economic issues is Bill Bishop’s Sinocism (sinocism.com) newsletter, which appears at a rate of about three a week. Bishop

The change in the operation of the GFW represents a shift in Beijing’s main worry, from controlling information from the outside world to preventing synchronization of opinion and, even more threatening, coordination of physical assembly by citizens.