All Roads Lead to China:

There is no hiding the fact that the Olympics has a large commercial element to it.  Media companies pay billions for exclusive broadcast rights, McDonald’s makes sure they have the only restaurants on the green, and athletes are all fully kitted up with the logo of the highest bidder. It is fair to say that [...]

Just a quick update that is being provided by Shanghai Daily and FT on Beijing’s plans to clear the air. According to the article: If the air quality for the next 48 hours is still unacceptable because of “extremely unfavorable weather conditions,” cars whose number plate’s last digit matches the last number of the date [...]

When the visa problems all began 6 months ago, the primary target seemed to be teachers, students, long term working tourist, tax evaders, and others who were enjoying the lax enforcement of visa policies. There were, and continue to be, a lot of legit business men and women who have also been caught up in [...]

Picture provides perspective, and given the density of the smog I would expect factories to be asked to take the next week off. Full Story here. UPDATE:  guardian has just loaded the article Beijing may expand pollution-cutting scheme where the reporters state: Beijing had not experienced a “blue sky day”, when the air pollution index [...]

For those of you who were alseep last year, there was an issue related to quality control and product safety that rocked US consumers and gave everyone at CNN something to talk about. My position at the time was that it was firms like Mattel and FTS tire Import who were to blame for not [...]