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- Why China Can't Create Brands [Newsweek] "China is famous as the factory to the world, but even its best companies enjoy little if any fame. That paradox has become a vexing problem for China's leaders. The nation is now too rich to continue growing at a double-digit pace by simply putting more peasants to work in factories, and then underselling its Western, Japanese, and South Korean competition. The job of making cheap clothes, toys, and electronics is moving on to even cheaper labor markets, like Vietnam. In a March report, Premier Wen Jiabao called for China to create companies that can innovate and churn out "brand-name export products"—meaning companies with reputations for quality, innovation, and service so strong that customers are willing to pay a premium for their products."
- Kazakh Uighurs hold mass protest [AP] " More than 5,000 ethnic Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city on Sunday to protest China's use of deadly force to quash Uighur protests this month. The show of solidarity was the largest in any of the former Soviet republics — home to a half-million Uighurs — since the July 5 violence in Xinjang that authorities say claimed almost 200 lives."
- Caution urged in bids for US Big Three [China Daily] "As the ongoing financial crisis pressures Western automakers to consider selling some of their assets, Chinese vehicle producers are seeing more opportunities to enter the global market through overseas acquisitions. However, unlike the positive responses to purchases such as China's Lenovo acquiring IBM's PC business in 2004, bidding for assets from ailing Big Three automakers has attracted more criticism."
- China: Rio Tinto's trouble - commerical bribery or espionage? [Global Voices Online] "More than a week ago, four employees of Rio Tinto were arrested on suspicion of ‘espionage, stealing state secrets and harming the nation’s economic interests and security.' Stern Hu, an Australian national who is in charge of iron ore trade in China for Rio Tinto is one of the four detained. More than ten people in different Chinese steel companies have also been detained for further investigation, including the executive assistant of China Shougang Group."
- China's Bookstore: Why the Chinese-reading world still flocks to Hong Kong [WSJ] "This former British colony, famous as a global financial hub, is best known in Chinese political circles as something else: a supplier of the Chinese-speaking world's most sensitive books. Even after returning to Chinese rule, Hong Kong retained its own laws, including generally wide-open rights to publish, other than some pornography restrictions. In China, by contrast, the government licenses publishing houses and has the power to censor or ban any book. So Hong Kong's bookstores attract large numbers of mainland Chinese travelers who use trips here to stock up on books they can't get back home, from virulent attacks on Mao Zedong to tomes on the three Ts of contemporary Chinese taboo: Tibet, Taiwan and Tiananmen."
- Hu Yong on the Yan Xiaoling Defamation Case [Cool Knowledge] "I’ve just finished a rough translation of an opinion piece by Hu Yong (胡泳)that appeared in this morning’s Southern Metropolis News in which he criticizes the use of criminal defamation charges to punish individuals who posted critical comments against local government officials’ handling of the Yan Xiaoling case... where [Yan] was [allegedly] "brutally gang-raped to death by eight people.” Police have given the reason as “suspected defamation."
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