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Japan is studying building a back-up Tokyo http://ping.fm/KnU4w
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Another Brand Launch Killed by Chinglish http://post.ly/3KIMk
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One question I'm not hearing much in the Harbin Pharma pollution scandal: "where were the regulators all this time?"
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Boeing: China to buy $600b worth of jets over next 20 years | China Economic Review http://ping.fm/AT9XL
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Foreign flags apparently disappearing in Beijing, except for Embassies. New regulation, or new enforcement policy?
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In China, face and politics keep companies from apologizing in a crisis. In the US, it is attorneys and a fear of liability.
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First lesson of strategic communications: If you don't frame the narrative, THEY will. http://ping.fm/6EjgI
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At the PublicAffairsAsia Government Affairs Forum in Beijing.
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Today's Hutong debate: will Samsung buy $RIMM or $HPQ?
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Media in China will lack credibility until it establishes editorial independence from $$ & CCP. Scant chance of that anytime soon.
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Illegal online PR in CN has three culprits: companies who think their reputations aren't at risk; media who take $$; and agencies.
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China Closes 6600 Websites For Illegal Online PR Deals, Will Not Change Anything http://ping.fm/DzO61 [Amen] @niubi
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Arguably Li-Ning run like a family-and-friends enterprise too long. A comeback is still possible, but time running out 4 them in CN.
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Li-Ning created the domestic sportswear business, learned hard lessons about fighting Nike/Adidas that whole industry uses today.
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Seeing fewer and smaller bus ads in Beijing. Are advertisers growing skeptical about effectiveness?
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Baidu offloads its English search to BING. Smart. At some point, when MS is tired of playing with it, Baidu can buy it for a song.
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I don't condone the thinking, but I understand it. The cultural divide represented by the English Channel is huge.
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Other line overheard from a Europhobe: "France: an entire nation addicted to butter, wine, cigarettes, and hubris."
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Laugh of the day: Europe described as "several hundred million socialist surrender monkeys."
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Sitting in the lobby of the Baiduplex, waiting for @Kaiserkuo. This place is stunning without being θΏεγ