Derek Scruggs

Dave Winer has a post arguing “maybe there’s more to Google-China than meets the eye.”
My wife is from China and my brother-in-law is a member of the Chinese Communist Party who works for the finance ministry. (Seriously.) If you talk to him, he’ll tell you they’re scared shitless that American’s will stop buying their products […]

In re: my previous post about searching Google for Tianenmen, a couple people pointed out that in China they don’t use the English spelling of the word, and in fact don’t even use Western character sets. The simplified Chinese version of Tianenmen looks like this: 天安门
(Mainland China except Hong Kong uses the simplified character set.)
So […]

Here’s an interesting post about one of the ways China censors the Internet. I’m pretty sure it’s not the only way they do it. My understanding is that in some cases they do IP-level filtering, so it doesn’t matter what your DNS server is. The most common workaround is to find a proxy server. There […]

Most people in business have heard that piracy in China is huge. A visitor there quickly notices a) a lot of products featuring Disney, Snoopy, Ralph Lauren and every Hollywood movie ever made 2) that are incredibly cheap – too cheap – and 3) that are of low quality – like a Polo shirt made of […]

Brad Feld (actually, his uncle Charlie) says “we need another Sputnik” to spur the next great wave of innovation, which in turn will keep us competitive with China and India.
I predict it will be something around alternative energy. There is absolutely no way China, which wants all the trappings of the good life in the […]

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China Blog List recently launched, and it’s a great way to find out what’s really going on there. The reputation of China is that it censors everything. And though they definitely censor a lot of things, for the most part they seem to leave their hands off the English language blogs. I’ve learned a lot from […]

Whenever people ask me about China, I inevitably bring up Shanghai. It’s so incredibly huge and cosmopolitan. The only fair comparison in the US is New York. New York is more culturally diverse because so many ethnicities have established themselves there over the last 150 years, but Shanghai is more impressive physically because of all […]

A couple weeks ago Laurel Delaney at GlobeTrade.com, who has been very helpful to me in researching business opportunities in China, asked me to write an article for her newsletter. Laurel doesn’t archive her newsletter on the web, but she graciously allowed me to reprint the article here. If you’re not interested in China, you […]

US Says China Must Address its Intentions: How it’s Power Will Be Used Is Of Concern
I just got back from a month in China. My wife is Chinese, so we stayed in the homes of friends & family, not hotels and tourist areas. Though that hardly makes me an expert, I feel like I got […]