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Rich Kuslan is an attorney, writer, presenter, intereviewer. A mandarin speaker with native fluency (and a strong Taiwanese accent, by choice), he brings to AsiaBizBlog a deep-seated interest of 30 years and (he hopes) penetrating insight into Chinese life, ideas and history. Once fluent (now quite rusty) in Japanese, he once lived and worked in Tokyo and Osaka, in addition to tours of China and Taiwan, beginning in the early 1980s. A more extensive profile may be found here.-
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Category Archives: Scandals
US Federal Government Investigates Toyota
The U.S. Federal Government, heavily invested in General Motors, investigates not only its competition, but its competition’s suppliers, using its extraordinary powers: Warrants were carried out on the Michigan offices of Yazaki Corp. in Canton, Denso International America Inc., in … Continue reading
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Interview with a Chinese Cyberthief
From the NY Times: “Here’s a list of the people who’ve been infected with my Trojan horse,” he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. “They don’t even know what’s happened.” Worthwhile … Continue reading
Posted in China After the Meltdown, IP in Asia, Scandals
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MI5: PLA and PSB “Gifts” to Businessmen Bugged
Commercial espionage among nations should not come as a surprise to anyone involved competitive businesses. I am a proponent of the idea that American intelligence should practice it far more than we already do, which is either so brilliantly executed … Continue reading
Google Delays Phone Launch in China — Getting In Deeper…
Google has announced a delay in China of the launch of mobile phones using its Android software. One must question this move as simply more Google shadow boxing. Despite its threat to remove web filtering, Google does not appear to … Continue reading
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Google in China: A Brief Update
Sources not named by Reuters allege employee collusion: Google (GOOG.O) is investigating whether one or more employees may have helped facilitate a cyber-attack from China that the U.S search giant said it was a victim of in mid-December, two sources … Continue reading
How Not to Get Scammed by a Scam Email
While not precisely on the subject of China, I post for your amusement and edification the text of an article which was published in the Dec. 7 issued of the Connecticut Law Tribune. It’s also online, but requires a subscription … Continue reading
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More on the “Overseas Client Scams Law Firm” Scam: Suits Filed
Two American law firms, unable to reach the scammer, now basking in sunny climes foreign to this great land, have taken to suing the banks which — allegedly, I must say in self-protection — processed the checks. What I find … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Vivienne Bath on Stern Hu, Rio Tinto and China
[Editor's Note: Steel is a big deal in China. The World Steel Association has noted: China became the first country ever to produce more than 500 mmt in one year. China’s crude steel production in 2008 reached 502 mmt, an … Continue reading
More African Complaints About Chinese Business Practices
Following our 88 Queensway article comes this: At several Chinese-run projects in Windhoek, workers were not wearing safety helmets. The Namibian workers said they must pay for their own safety equipment — for example, $3.65 for a helmet, $1.20 for … Continue reading
Tianjin Falls to the Japanese — July 1937
In July 1937, Tianjin (???Tietsin) and Beijing (??? fell to the Japanese. More on the event here, here and, for videos, here. Videos are in Japanese with Chinese subtitles.
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