Category Archives: China

Google from behind the Great Firewall

I was wondering why Tinyletter would show this very useless screen, upon clicking the link in the email address confirmation message: During my last visit to China, internet access had been a challenge and this time, I got myself a … Continue reading

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Surviving low-bandwidth internet

This week, I’m working in China. At the moment, I’ve got a room in a fancy hotel in a peripheral neighborhood of Shanghai, where my company is holding its sales conference. Bad internet is not a stranger to high-end hotels … Continue reading

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The bookends of our period of development

As I have noted at greater length elsewhere, I had come to fear that China may be where the 200-odd-year-old carbon-fuelled capital-driven model of economic development runs into an ecological wall. Britain, where it started, and China may be bookends … Continue reading

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