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Superficially, it is easy for an outsider to laugh at the idea that China can become a major center of technological innovation when industry after industry suffers billions of dollars in annual losses due to intellectual property rights violations.

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It comes as huge surprise to most observers that across the Pacific, far away from Greater China, a brutal media battle is underway with many of the world’s largest Chinese media brands.  LA’s Mandarin language …

Not like most Chinese care, though. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 80% of Chinese think the Internet should be managed or controlled, and 85% think the government should be responsible for doing …

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For anyone who has lived extensively in China, you will immediately recognize this scenario:
Hanging
out with friends at a bar/coffee shop/restaurant in
Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou and you meet a fellow Westerner.  After a
the usual polite chit chat about the …

A LIST OF RECENTLY FOUND LINKS ON CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT:
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WASIT PROVINCE, Iraq — When China’s biggest oil company signed the first post-invasion oil field development contract in Iraq last year, the deal was seen as a test of Iraq’s willingness to open an industry …

It’s an old and easy hobby to laugh at Americans and how provincial we are when it comes to understanding the world outside of our borders.  We’ve all seen the Jay Leno skits where he …