Interview with Author Rebecca Fannin, who has been covering China since 1992 and is the international editor of the Hong Kong weekly Asian Venture Capital Journal, says that's about to change. In her new book Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race, she argues that businesses like Baidu and Alibaba foreshadow another generation of Chinese startups--those with their own highly competitive and homegrown ideas.
Why China Will Win The Web
Andy Greenberg, 03.13.08, 6:00 PM ET
"Companies like eBay and Google know that Chinese tech firms are forces to be reckoned with. Both Web giants have tried to push into the Middle Kingdom's tech industry only to be shoved back by local competitors who were faster to market and better tuned to the tastes of the local audience."
From Yahoo News:
China outsurfs the US: research firm
Fri Mar 14, 12:14 PM ETBEIJING (AFP) - China's Internet population has overtaken the United States' to become the world's biggest with about 220 million web surfers, a research firm said Friday.
Q1. Do you think that Chinese e-commerce is purely derivative, depending on cheap (and possibly illegal) copies of western products?
Q2. Is there a parallel between Japan in the 60s and China now?
Q3. What is the economic impact of the Chinese government's censorship/control over the internet?
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