Friday, May 4, 2012

#China isn't a place devoid of innovation. Sure they rip things off from time to time,

Ash Vu

2:32 AM  -    -  Public
Well, that was disappointing.

China isn't a place devoid of innovation. Sure they rip things off from time to time, but sometimes they actually manage something interesting, or even downright incredible. Of course, that's the case for any culture, so I'd say we need to avoid generalizing here.

This case, though, left me wondering what the creators of this "virtual idol" were thinking. My daughter got...
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g. v. wilkes iv

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Via Michael Pettis of China Financial Markets, In 2006 I started making a number of predictions based on what I thought was the necessary and logical development of China’s growth model. Some of these predictions seemed fairly outlandish, especially to China analysts – Chinese and foreign – who had very little knowledge of economic history or other developing countries, but many of them so far have turned out quite well. As more and more analysts..
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