所有的惊人的事情发生在中国给我，我在我的手机的SMS消息是其中之一。

当我第一次到上海3年前我还年轻，我的心是充满野心。 急于为自己的名称，在当地企业界，我对我的名片递出宽松所有这些微笑当地人pullulated在社交活动中，积极地自我介绍，并提供他们的卡片，在可爱的亚洲两手时尚。

我花了几个星期，以了解事情在上海工作，然后由我的卡已经成为在IDS市场的商品，分类标题下的权利有：第一类外籍吸盘。

这个方法的缺点是，自那时以来收到的短信，我的一个很好的75％是广告。 好的一面是，这些广告是我所见过的最不寻常的，给人一种良好的洞察力上海黑社会的机智和创造力。 点击继续»

回顾上周我写我知道，我努力保持冷静的头脑和分析的事件，我忘了说一件很重要的事情：我很尊重谷歌。 我从未有过的非业务性质，其决定有任何疑问，尽管在我们调查的结果 ，我相信它是基于对个人，公司的领导人的道德和政治信念。

我不喜欢的方式，它已经完成，但它肯定需要一些胆量的CEO无视世界秩序，无论该公司的首次公开招股说 。 我自己的网站已经审查的受害者 ，我很快指责谷歌时，他们帮助审查像“08宪章”的倡议，所以它是唯一公平的，我赞美他们现在。 操纵搜索引擎（ SEM ）是最坏的一种审查，因为它会导致用户认为，在搜索结果中包含的信息是公平的世界的看法样本。 这是非常困难，为谷歌辩护行为，它是一个好消息是它的一部分，他们停止。 布拉沃。

然而，为什么谷歌已经把与中国的制度，为4年的重要原因，据我可以看到，所有这些原因，今天仍然存在。 心血来潮就离开中国，谷歌发送的消息，所有的工作是一个很大的错误。 更糟的是，谷歌砰门上的出路，为自己创造麻烦，为中国网民，为全球互联网界。

以任何标准来衡量，谷歌上周的声明是一场灾难。 它拥有所有的罪，公司公告，不仅从公关的角度，也从普通的常识。 这是侮辱自以为是，它不能提供一个明确的决定的原因，它不提供任何指控的证据。 更糟的是，它发出最后通牒，要求中国政府，揭示了政治权力的渴求，在一个公司是非常令人不安的。

厚颜无耻​​的动画片“中国日报”（华尔街日报）

原色在谷歌的标志和简单的口号“不恶”表明世界童话故事善恶有明确的规定，可以住之后，谷歌路径，理直气壮地指出他们在给他人错了。 不幸的是更复杂的生命，只有很简单的人，可以相信，上帝总是站在他们 一边 。

谷歌的意图和性质

我很喜欢昨天的文章丽贝卡麦金农，因为它拒绝愚蠢的辩论有关Google的领导人的动机的纯洁性。 另一方面，我发现它有点过于乐观，对谷歌和全球互联网社区今天的作用。

谷歌是没有多于或少于大多数企业的邪恶。 所不同的是它有发达的一种独特的商业模式，需要大量的信任和善意，以及推动它到现在为止已经做了了不起的工作。 到，在网上社区，它已经设法扭转的经典角色，变成首席执行官环保人士的激进hacktivists点。 点击继续»

我知道，在世界上有其他新闻，我可能不会对他们给予足够的重视。 但我不能帮助它，我一直在试图了解谷歌的决定在过去48小时超频，我读每一篇文章在互联网上出现了自。 我仍然不明白这一点。

我想这是一个协作页，我将保持在上面，我明白我可能会错过的线索和POVs意见。 我们的目标是要拿出合理的假设，然后划掉错误的。 我也将增加信息下面的有趣的位，因为他们出来：

假设：为什么谷歌站起来向中共？ （更新如下）

商业：我们已经看到 ，在手的信息，决定不从纯商业角度感。 谁知道，你可能会说，也许在西方获得的商誉将结束对中国的损失补偿，也许很快就会来临民主。 是的，阙血清血清。 但是，这不是决定如何采取业务。 有利润和风险考虑，当增益是如此的不确定性和损失如此清晰，它不会使商业意义。 更多关于此以下。

道德：是的，“不作恶”，我知道。 您好，今天所有的企业有企业社会责任和道德守则，也是我的，即使它不是像谷歌凉爽。 但实际上，公司并不都是有感情的，它不应对般的爱情， 道德或观念。 只有人做到这一点。 ，并在谷歌，只页的情况下，布林和施密特有这种权力。 他们突然良心不安，决定按照自己的原则，不惜任何代价吗？ 有些人已经表明，这可能一直是个人的决定，由谢尔盖·布林的影响。 下面的个人假设。

国际象棋：谷歌对中国的工业间谍活动，仍然是不公开会危及共产党，并可能推靠在墙上，一些世贸组织诉讼的证据，有一些信息。 受害人包括数十家西方公司，所有这些国家将被迫站起来向中共以及犯罪是如此离谱。 这可能是谷歌的一张王牌，它可以解释他们的博客文章风格。 这是唯一获奖的G.强值得考虑的前提下，对谷歌的3国领导人是非常聪明的家伙，假设。

法律：选择的消息和坏的时刻混乱的风格（我们应该说现在的Nexus One）让我觉得有可能已推谷歌这样做的一些紧迫问题。 就像我们说的，相同的商誉已得到根本uncensoring Google.cn，而无需编写中共公开指责。 这是移动来deslegitimate中国的制度，并避免即将到来的中国诉讼？ 一些激进分子扬言要起诉谷歌泄漏，或者是中国当局越来越危险？ 谷歌图书？ 在Google图片色情？

政治：我们看到，以及政治 ​​，最有可能的结果是增加在中国的审查制度，谷歌与中国网民的员工净亏损，甚至可能上升的民族主义和保护主义政策 。 此举将帮助中国在短期内也没有办法。 即使有：它不是，它不能成为一家上市公司在与美国政府一方面积极从事政治手的作用。 需要我记得，美国政府今天邪恶中共的严重负责人吗？ 更多新闻在这里。

知识产权保护：谷歌可能已经决定，迫使中国的出路，因为它确实已经发现了一些知识产权盗窃严重，以至于它在整个业务的危险了。 这是很难相信，谷歌是无法隐藏自己的IP，从中国政府。 我们甚至无法拿出像样的过滤软件 ，去年同政府发言。 让我们只是说，这个选项是不太可能的更新。这一假说后，谣言的中共摩尔，看到下面的更新2。

conspirational：谷歌有隐藏的东西。 这是非常大，非常怪异的东西，像施密特是一个陌生的，或不可恢复的错误已被发现拉里的算法，或在美国的谷歌资料库已AlQaida举行......而这一切的噪音，只是分散我们的注意力。 这将是在谷歌博客的凌乱后快速一致的。

个人：拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林在宇宙中最崇拜的人，他 ​​们是互联网的神。 他们取得了在一个非常年轻的年龄，他们已经花了近十年坐在谷歌搜索摇钱树和自由聘请世界上最好的智能征服互联网，并得到更普遍比耶稣基督的爱。 他们的自尊心拍摄通过的Googolplex的屋顶，他们已经决定将带来民主，因为他们老总不知道如何行动。 女孩。

宏观经济：谷歌已获得内幕信息，对中国的一些银行和P和B超人大脑的财务状况来预测，中国的制度是明天即将崩溃的一个新的算法。 他们离开，而他们仍然在时间，收集奖金世界的善意和不畏不会是明年这个时候，反正一个CCP ...

各种/壮观：从每日野兽经BoingBoing网站 ：“他们知道这中国政府这些攻击背后的原因，因为谷歌给他们的关键”，“你的整个生活，作为谷歌的服务器上存储，可现在是服用有。 “和”谷歌正在试图建立一个分心“也从波斯纳在每日野兽 ：红色危险又回来了，，Google阻挠中国的计划，以控制军队黑客世界。

更新： 单位“已经收集了一些信息，谷歌在中国越来越低利润。 这将给予一定重量以上的商业选项。 但是，它仍然没有任何意义。 他们可以有Google.cn刚未经审查，送走了所有的公关喧闹，而不能跨越电子邮件黑客公众指责中共太多。 因为有在Google.com和所有的G服务将被封锁的方式，在谷歌迫使事情是绝对没有的商业利益。 中国可以做的，很容易与桂枝茯苓丸 。

更新2：。 的痣理论 ESWN转化匿名中国博客自称内幕信息：谷歌相信其员工并给他们所有的代码，突然发现员工之一是实际上1中共痣谁是被传递不仅约活动家的信息，但谷歌自己的IP（实际上，从最初的G的职位，也没有明确的两个问题提出谷歌）。

Rings true to me, and explains why all employees in China are being sent on holidays . And yet, this doesn't change much the situation. Wasn't it pretty obvious that Google had CCP spies all along? Every company here has members of the CCP working in it, mine as well. And it is difficult to believe G was so naive as to not take precautions against this.

Moreover, the kind of people that work in Google are the best of the best universities, a high percentage of those people are members of the party here. The surprising thing would have been that there was NO moles in Google China.

I don't think the big deal is the mole. Whether the hacks were done through moles or through other means is secondary, what is essential to the issue here is the Magnitude of the IP theft, and the Evidence G has, and possibly the other Companies involved. For the POLL, this theory is included in the IP Protection option above.

UPDATE 3 : ( h/t CDT ) Newsweek interview Eric Schmidt : Decision based on values, not business. Mentions monitoring of dissidents, not technology IP theft. Says Google's IPO specified Google would be different, maximizing profits was not the objective of Google Inc, so no responsibility to the shareholders.

But why why why? Why such a bad form? They could have done it more smoothly, and avert the risk of being completely banished from China. And why now, when the treatment of dissidents is known in China for years? Does it make any difference if hacks are done through a mole in Gmail or through Baidumail once Google is gone? And wouldn't the right thing be to fight, and encrypt the email better, and give those dissidents a much needed support to stay alive?

Feel free to suggest other hypothesis, or else just vote below:

(POLL IS CLOSED)

载入中...

There has been very little new information today and most of the media and the blogosphere is turning around the same ideas, many of them mentioned already in the previous 2 posts of the series.

Here are a few interesting new points I have gathered that I think are worth commenting:

• 有一个由H.克林顿呼吁中国解释谷歌的黑客索赔。 和我们在同一个有趣的文章读埃里克·施密特上周在与她共进晚餐，讨论如何促进民主技术可用于参加。

• 谷歌现在已经开始采取措施 ，和所有的Gmail帐户已经被加密，据我知道在整个世界，你可以检查您的帐户，现在看到的地址栏以https开头。

• 然而，正如我5分钟前自己的测试，有没有证据，改变了在Google.cn搜索服务。 我有一个比较好点，因为我在去年类似搜索实验 。 你可以看一下像08宪章（政治文件“零八宪章”）的东西，你会看到操纵的结果，酷似去年调频消息和所有。

• 新华社对此发表的唯一的文章中，有一个由上海某大学教授郭报价：“谷歌事件是一个提醒政府网络监管可能较为温和，聪明”。 从来没有想过我会读新华社记者说。 （感谢尖端kaplanpop为）

• 谷歌的行动已经聚集了很多中国网民的支持 。 然而，这绝不能采取在面对中国民意调查的价值。 当然，中国的大部分甚至没有听到关于这一点，如果他们有，他们不知道为什么它是一个大问题，外国公司，谷歌可能离开中国。

• 股市仍未决定是否在西方获得的PR点是值得在中国失去了业务。 G股现在只有1.4％。 另一方面，投资者对百度谁是高达13.5％的小疑问。 我敢打赌，一些模仿的B办事处已经开始策划如何的网上BDocs，BMaps，BCalendar，Bmail，Bwave和甚至Bphone向中国提供...

继上一篇关于谷歌和中国，这里有我的思考，关于这一切都在可预见的后果。 首先，一个重要的澄清：我不认为对审查的战斗是坏。 在中国的检查是非常现实的，它是一个不仅活动家，但最诚实的中国人的耻辱，它只是共产党的自我保护的目的。

话虽如此，在以前的帖子，我批评谷歌这一决定 ，因为我觉得形式是错误的，并为这场斗争中所选择的方法是错误的，更重要的是：这场斗争的领导者不应该是一个公司，更不用说西方公司进入政治独奏。

另一方面，如果它是一个纯粹的商业计算，我认为这是错误的，在长期不使商业意识，不断增长的中国市场是有可能活得更长的时间比这所赚取的任何商誉。

更多我的消息看， 它看起来像一个错误，一个年轻的理想主义者Google员工，躲过了他的老板的监督。 这个博客没有什么权力真正为公司发言？该邮件是合法的，因为评论家已经证明以下。

在任何情况下，这里有一些我可以预见的后果，再次在快速的要点：

• 方式的消息已起草完毕，Google.cn的机会，以保持苗条。 谷歌加强这回，这将是非常困难的，整个科技世界去它的坚果 。 另一方面，它更是中国当局的困难：即使他们愿意接受谷歌的条件（它们不是），他们也绝不允许西方公司公开强制政策。 除非是一些一种recanting，Google.cn是注定要失败。

• 中国当局可以做更多比迫使Google.cn了。 如果去酸味的东西，他们也很可能桂枝茯苓丸块 *整个Google.com，在这种情况下，这种情况将在2006年甚至比前Google.cn更糟。 谷歌可能完全ðisappear来自中国和世界20％的互联网用户快速增长的告别。 这包括电话和任何其他Google产品。

• 我认为决定是生意不好，因为消费者有非常不好的回忆，和商誉在一天之内获得，但大规模的，不会长久。 多少企业去指责童工胸围吗？ 没有人会记住这一举动在几个月内，谷歌将发现自己20％的潜在市场与汇率无关。

• 百度要去甚至更多，以及其他一些西方的机会主义者。 百度的搜索服务比谷歌是明显恶化，中国的互联网用户将是一个贫穷的服务首当其冲的受害者。 已经注意到鸿沟中国和西方之间将进一步增加，这只能是中国人，人权坏，坏的世界坏。

• 至于更大的政治图景，这是不太可能在美国或中国的政策有任何影响，除非有很多更多的西方公司加入Google。 但是，没有其他公司加入十字军东征带来善意向Google，此举将刚刚离开浅表性疤痕在CCPS互联网的声誉，他们将能够在任何时间医治一些小剂量的民族唇膏。

• 关于股市，媒体指出，谷歌，同比下降1.77％，但这并不是在一天内显着时，整个纳斯达克指数下跌1.35％。 请注意，百度下跌3.51％后，我昨天的职位 ，并可能对谷歌的影响将会看到今天的市场开放。 我很高兴，我摆脱了我的旅馆昨天买一些气孔，今天我再次摆脱了GS取回的旅馆。 这是一个胜利者的举动！

*请注意：中国（google.com）以外的服务器得到GFW的封锁，在中国境内的服务器被欺负的保姆。 两个完全不同的过程用了类似的结果。 更多在这里 。

首先，请阅读本文谷歌官方博客上发布。 这是所有你需要阅读的时刻，因为那里没有更多的第一手资料。

It was published some 5 hours ago. What it says in a rather muddled way is essentially:

1. That Google has detected attacks resulting in the theft of intellectual property, in particular on Gmail accounts in China, not through Google servers but just hacking users computers.
2. That Google has evidence that similar attacks happened also to other major Western companies in various industries.
3. That the information targeted was related to advocates of human rights in China.
4. That because of all this, Google is not willing to continue censoring results on Google.cn and that “we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.”

This is very surprising news and it is quickly making the rounds of the World Media. Here are some preliminary midday break thoughts. Excuse the Bullet points but I am too excited to do real prose:

Regarding the message and intentions

• The message sounds inconsistent, because it is complaining against 2 completely different problems. 1- The email hacks affects many companies and it is not necessarily done by the Chinese authorities, neither it is directly related to Google. 2- The Google.cn Search Engine manipulation or SEM that we already saw here .

• By involving other Western companies Google is apparently sending a signal to them that either they support Google in its plight or else they will be mentioned by name and bear with the PR consequences of that (G is dreaming if it thinks they will follow, as if Chemical companies have much left to loose in this department already)

• Nowhere in the message it says there is evidence that Chinese authorities are responsible for the email hacks. While this might seem obvious, in Western culture there is a presumption of innocence to apply. The normal sequence is first to seek justice, and only when the authorities refuse justice then complain.

• You may believe or not in the “non evilness” of Google, but for a company that is handling so much of our personal information, this is not completely disinterested. Non-evilness is Gold for the G, and the minute the World stops trusting Google, the whole expansion plan of of Google apps+phones goes down the drain.

• It is not impossible then that a calculation is involved: by standing up to China, Google can gain more credit points Worldwide than what it loses leaving China, where its operations are probably not very profitable today. With the new Google phone, the battle to rule the Tech World is at its peak, and goodwill is going to be an important weapon against Apple and Microsoft.

• Is Google essentially Non-evil, or is it Non-evil just because it suits its business? Is a lion evil because it eats a gazelle, is an oil company evil because it gives you products you want to buy? Such philosophical questions people will be asking today, but I think there is no point in going down that way. Google is a corporation, not a charity, and we should judge its actions first from that perspective.

• For a company to try to “change the World” on its own is completely out of scope, it is pointless, it leads to its ruin, and it amounts to pursuing political objectives for which it has no legitimacy. If Google doesn't want to have Google.cn censored, then they are right to force this, but coming up now with a sort of “retaliation” to the Chinese government for hacking activist emails is a different thing altogether.

• In conclusion, the message sounds inconsistent and improvised, it is difficult to believe that it comes from a careful calculation. I wonder who really writes that blog, but if this really comes from Google executives it is scary, especially from the shareholders POV. Regardless of the real intentions of Google, my first assessment is that the post is a BAD decision.

Some more thoughts on the consequences coming in my next post .

Wow. Baidu.com has been hacked this morning around 9:30 and is just back on at 3pm. More than 5:30 hours downtime.

Worst of all, they have no way to hide it was a hack, even the People's Daily published the picture . Perhaps the party media does not consider websites as part of China's glorious industry and it is not concerned with covering up. Not like they could have hidden it anyway, but I find it interesting that they didn't try:

This reminds me of yesterday's article on Caixin, coincidentally titled: Page Not Found . It explains the very unusual situation of a Chinese internet industry that is averse to innovation.

But in addition to the domestic environment's impact, rottenness inside the industry deserves some blame for the crisis. Whirlwind development led to stories of overnight riches, which in turn attracted a significant number of unqualified entrepreneurs with questionable motives. The industry now looks at innovation as risky, while copycats seek instant success with online games, cheap content and plagiarism. They exploit regulatory loopholes or do business in the economy's gray zone.

I don't want to read too much into a simple incident, but it is kind of a big deal in the first Chinese Nasdaq company, a website ranked N1 in China and N8 in the World . I can't help feeling that Baidu have been too long sitting on their cozy market share and government protection, selling search results or luring in users with copyrighted mp3 for download. Instead of innovating and improving their security.

To be sure, Baidu also brings out some new stuff once in a while, and I quite like the Baidupedia to look up Chinese things. But when you compare with Facebook, Twitter or Google, you see those companies are constantly taking risks to try out new ideas, while Chinese sites tend to sit around and copy. I mean, surely you can't run an internet company like you are running a steel mill?

Just a coincidence, probably, but the COO of Baidu stepped down yesterday “for personal reasons”.

H/T Danwei and CDT .

更新：这是晚上7点和baidu.com仍然是开启和关闭。 休息的服务，百舸，MP3，等工作正常，可以通过baidu.cn访问，但主要的页面是在这一刻。 停机关闭已经10个小时。

看看我今天在我的信箱中发现什么。 “露齿兔儿童情商训练营的广告！”

那些有足够的耐心，坚持这个博客你可能还记得去年我在中国的普及self-help/business书籍后 ，特别是那些与情绪智能（EQ）。 并不奇怪，我们说，在这个社会里的教育系统是无情的，替代的R.Goleman的情商的概念是千百万中国几乎宗教信仰欢迎。

但不知何故，我觉得他们都搞错了。

在营地的计划包括课程领导，控制情绪，增强竞争力，决心和其他可怕的项目之间的社交。 访问难民营的最低年龄是3岁，和小册子是不准确描述游戏，而是从一开始的铁杆情商培训。 它看起来非常成功，在中国已开放的10个中心，你可以看到下面的地图。

小女孩学习解除像胡锦涛的手

现在我不意味着要更加表露无疑比是严格必要在这个博客上，恐怕我可能会从一个很欧洲的角度看这。 我告诉记者，在美国以及在中国，人们相信这些东西，我尊重你，如果你这样做。

但家长们：请让孩子玩，结识新朋友，关于小弄堂形成带徘徊亡命徒 ，像坚果上海的士大院周围骑自行车，并用受伤的膝盖和一颗牙齿在口袋里，回家每隔一周。 这将会给他们EQ的负荷。 我作为一个孩子，看我现在，一手运行Chinayouren。

我只是不能等待获得一个“古怪的鼠标下的小册子， 移动你的奶酪为幼儿夏令营“

我昨晚摆弄一些统计数据，考虑到中国互联网心胸狭窄 ，我们一直在讨论最近的奇怪的想法。 表达本身就是奇怪，因为“互联网”和“与世隔绝”，形成一个矛盾，但你很难注意到这些东西，当你住在这里。 它是土地在社会主义市场经济的正常程序。

不管我们作出的短语，事实是，它每次，无论是讲语言 ， 传媒或政治 ，一切似乎都指向这个方向。 下面的图片是我尝试画一个互联网的世界地图来说明这个岛国，从网站上使用互联网世界统计数据。

这里是我：我与所有国家的统计，超过10万互联网用户，这使得在总共32从中国到摩洛哥的第一个想法。 然后我做了一个Excel图表，每个气泡的面积比例到该国的互联网用户，关键的是，我充满了矩阵码的​​气泡。 结果：世界地图的矩阵：

互联网矩阵的世界地图

在上面的地图中的一个有趣的事情是，亚洲已经是世界上最大的互联网领域。 惊人的，但不是真的，毕竟，它拥有迄今为止世界上人口最多。 这是没有什么比什么来：互联网与中国和印度的增长将是在未来几年亚洲联合。 没有他们，没有命中，将真正全球净。 到现在为止，在网络上的大多数人都从现在大多数发达国家，将来自发展中国家。 我们的社会之间的密切联系，将有在线和离线的重要后果。 也就是说，假如我们真的管理连接。

但是，当我们谈到互联网，它并不太大的意义来看待政治的界限。 有没有这样的边境控制线上，真正团结或分裂人民是文化的东西。 最重要的参数是一个特别的语言：不管你的国籍，作为一个用户定义你的语言你上网，这是为什么我的浏览习惯，更喜欢这个看起来Blogger的不是像有人在我的国家的原因： ESWN，我有完全不同的背景，但我们有共同的冲浪语言。

所以我抬起头来的统计，在互联网上最常用的语言，从英语到韩国10。 这一次，我彩色的气泡与标志，我把他们大约在他们的发言者的社会重心的中心。 结果是地图冲浪语言：

冲浪语言的世界地图

尽管如此，地图不是很大。 许多扬声器在庞大的英语泡沫实际上是印度人，西班牙应该是在美国和欧洲，和澳大利亚是完全出来的照片。 物理距离有没有净的意思，甚至比政治界限。 它变得清晰，地理是我的目的没有多大用处，所以我们不妨转储GMaps实现和坚持气泡。

我的新图看起来像这样，在所有主要的互联网社区的代表一起在云。 我们都是相互关联的，只有坚实的区别是语言。 两个人共享一个爱好，喜欢足球，但他们不走相同的网站，如果他们在不同的语言上网。 媒体和互联网上的资源大部分都没有翻译成其他语言，而是重新编写和重新诠释，由当地部落客/记者，社区之间的边界控制功能。

改进互联网的云世界地图：

我们在云中看到的事情之一是，所有的社区都互相接触。 但我恐怕这不是一个非常精确的图片。 通常俄罗斯不翻译日本的内容，也没有葡萄牙语翻译阿拉伯语。 英语有今天在互联网上的重要作用，因为在大多数情况下，它是通过英语，其余的语言沟通：大多数内容是英语翻译第一，并从那里向其他社区。 英语的泡沫，包括来自世界各地的用户，是互联网的中心。

云的另一个问题是，它显示了所有同样互联社区，这是不太现实的。 谁讲欧洲语言的用户更容易阅读英文。 西班牙社会，例如，包括许多美国人许多他们自己的语言上网的英文网站。 其实，大部分的语言泡沫的与英文泡沫像素的重要组成部分，所以我们可以代表作为一种维恩图的地图：

第二次迭代：维恩图地图

我们看到从上一个新的地图是非常不同的。 现在有一个共享的内容很多西方语言与英语，更多的语言，分享了一下，俄语和阿拉伯语，然后三种语言，形成了今日亚洲互联网的核心集群：中国，韩国和日本。 和你可能已经注意到，我得出中国在其余的距离。

由于种种原因，我们将看到，中国人不使用Facebook或Twitter的，或YouTube或MySpace，或eBay。 他们不读Boing Boing“ 赫芬顿邮报“ ，他们在自己的QQ聊天室聊天。 他们很少收到，我们收到的病毒邮件，反而得到一个和别人一样。 他们所有的事情，我们有一些，但他们建立了他们对互联网的独立包裹并行。

而基于以上的气泡的大小是由一个受人尊敬的收集定量数据源 ，位置才决定由半知情的感觉。 任何读者可能会说，中国不应该是迄今为止对。 有香港，华裔美国人，甚至中国大陆做英语冲浪。 ，我将被迫承认的维恩图是有缺陷的，因为它未能证明了这一点。

但是，在这样一个像互联网世界瞬息万变，位置真的没什么意思。 今天举行的明天可能会有所不同。 什么是真正重要的是动态的方向是中国，以及如何将在10年的上网查查？ 大家都同意，中国互联网社区发展非常迅速，这是自然的。 令人担忧的部分是，它也可能被移动从休息。

第三次迭代：动态地图

因为在西方国家的互联网普及率已经非常高，印度仍然处于滞后状态，在未来10年中国互联网将成为大几乎所有的休息起来。 如果继续偏离，它可能会成长为一个平行的网络，像月亮黑暗的一面，一个巨大的，自给自足的岛屿，政府可以随时切出，里面大多数人甚至没有注意到其中的差别。 这违背了整个构思的www。

不管问题的真实规模，这是大多数观察家认为是中国和互联网的其余部分之间的断开连接 ，并有强大的力量，拉他们远一点。 幸运的是，也有力量平衡，并在未来数年的结果将在很大程度上取决于这些因素如何发挥互相对抗。 这里是我的新的地图现在看起来如何：

互联网的力量

正如我们所看到的这个博客之前，一些主要因素，使从中国独立的世界有以下几种，在图表中红色所示：

• 语言 ，因为我们在此看到后 ，我们证明了中国的语言是美丽和独特的，在许多方面，但它使中国人与外国人连接，它很难。
• 文化 ，在广义上的字，这意味着社区有不同的看法和价值观，他们无法理解彼此。 这包括与媒体的问题。
• 政治 ，多种形式，包括保姆，中国长城防火墙（GFW），直接抓人，中共的蓄意行动，因为我们看到这里 。

在绿色的主要因素，在向相反的方向去。 在这里，他们在细节上，乐观欢喜​​：

• 越来越多的桥梁， 博客和其他互联网使用，连接两个社区的工作。 这些措施包括不仅英语Chinablogs，但主要是中国人的翻译对中国互联网的外国媒体和其他内容。 从这个不起眼的博客，我也做了我对桂枝茯苓丸位 。
• 后的90年代和80年代的一代，已经占主导地位的中国互联网。 他们的个人品味艺术，音乐或电影可能会更加国际化，并推动他们与世界接轨。 这一点是辩论的对象，不过，一些西方人是非常怀疑的80后。
• 业务是连结中国走向世界的最重要因素之一。 由于欧盟的建设，这是没有任何秘密，电子商务可以实现世界和平的最雄心勃勃的目标，所以不管你的起飞是对那些经营头脑的中国人 ，他 ​​们很可能是主力仍保持连接中国的岛屿和控股万维网一起。

你觉得呢？ 你有什么想法？

你觉得我夸张？ 或者是问题甚至比这更糟的吗？ 任何因素，我错过了在互联网地图？ Internet friends: you are the pixels inside the coloured bubbles, you know all about this World because it is your home: comment and help me improve my Map!

There's been a lot of things coming up lately in the field of “demise of the media “. In particular in China we have seen the spectacular series of posts by James Fallows and others, casting some light on the results of Obama's visit to China. For the Old vs. New media debate this cannot count as a hit, because both sides in the discussion were newspaper people. But China has a way of making things more interesting, and here we see the whole thing from a different perspective.

Nobody really cares about the “demise of the media” in the country of People's Daily, instead the media debate here is framed in terms of pro-China vs. anti-China. Obama's visit is a great case for analysis , because this time the controversy is too obscure to excite the masses, and we can look at it without the polarizing effects of the West-nut and Fenqing friends.

In all the discussions about the bias of Western Media, I have always stood in an uncomfortable middle ground: I do not agree that there is a World conspiracy to damage China's image, but I see there is some serious bias in many of the news items, and I try to understand the reasons for this. This is my attempt to offer an explanation: it has to do with the three main powers that, in different proportions, influence all mass media: The States, Business and the Readers.

• Media predominantly controlled by The State. This includes some of the main Western players like BBC or NPR, together with the bulk of the Chinese media. The key for them to work is the existence of credible mechanisms to ensure their independence from the governing party, which is impossible in countries where party and State are not distinct. In some cases, like the BBC, they can produce quality results, but the system is not scalable: if ALL media was controlled by States, credibility would be seriously compromised.

• Media predominantly controlled by Business , whether it is the media corporations themselves or their major advertisers. This can include papers like the WSJ and News Corp, and also many local newspapers whose readership is ( was ) secured for geographical reasons, and whose main challenge was not really to get more readers (the population in their territory was limited) but to obtain the best advertising deals with the local business establishment.

• Media predominantly controlled by Readers is the one that strives to please as many readers as possible to increase its circulation. Examples include the British tabloids and a large part of the Internet Media. The fight to obtain more Readers has always been important from the times of Pulitzer , but with the new technologies and the crisis of the newspapers, it has become vital. On the internet, nobody cares for Corporate opinions, or even for the laws of a State. The only valid parameter is clicks-per-month, and as long as you deliver, advertisers don't ask questions.

All these three powers affect all media in different degrees, and none of them is conductive to unbiased reporting. But little is written about this, because most of us have come to terms with the harsh reality: whether good or bad, these influences are inevitable. Therefore, the debate is not about how to obtain a completely impartial newspaper, but rather how to preserve the many imperfect ones that already exist, whose bias go in different directions and impose “checks and balances” on each other, allowing the critical reader to draw some conclusions.

This diversity is essential, and what we are seeing nowadays in the West is a growing uniformity that comes from the eagerness to please readers. Ironically, by freeing itself from the first two powers, the media is falling prisoner of the third one. The internet has turned information into a perfect competition market where the consumer is king, but as we saw here , the invisible hand is not all that good at objective reporting.

When readers demand independence of the press, they rarely mean independence from themselves. But in fact they can be the most damaging influence: not only they are apt to delude themselves in droves, but also they lack a counterbalancing view to put the information in perspective. When the Media tells the readers what they want to hear, it closes a feedback loop of partisanship and preconceived ideas that it is difficult to escape, and the investigation of an outside truth becomes secondary. This is one of the main dangers of the media today, old and new alike.

Conclusion Seen from China

I don't know to what extent this Reader factor is responsible for the bad quality of the Media, but I am convinced it plays a main role in the perceived anti-China bias. As we saw in Xinjiang , many Western journalists were there to witness The Cruelties of the Chinese system, just like Washington journalists followed Obama to witness The Censorship and Emerging Power of China. In both cases the stories were pre-written by the expectations of Western readers, and most media Old and New followed the script obediently.

I am convinced Reader bias is at the root of the problem because I simply can't find any other explanation. It cannot be the interests of Big Business, when most corporations have big stakes in China, and a rise of nationalism or trade wars can only bring them losses. It cannot be the interests of governments like the US, which would have nothing to gain from a rise in Chinese nationalism and militarization. It has to be that Media bias is just a reflection of the image of China in Western societies, and that both Image and Reflection are constantly feeding each other.

The World needs well grounded, reasoned critiques of the CPP policies, and particularly of its disastrous records in Human Rights. But sadly, by focusing on wrong targets and wrong timing (for example, when hundreds of Chinese were being murdered in Urumqi) the Western media only manages to alienate itself from its Chinese followers, and create even more misunderstandings between China and the West. By doing this, they are are unwittingly providing the nationalist fuel that the CPP needs to survive, and further delaying the freedom that most of us honestly wish for the Chinese.

Supposing the Media really cared about fair reporting, they could try to get more PRC journalists and readers, and listen to their opinions to introduce a counterbalance in their closed loop with Western Readers. Supposing the CCP really cared about the image of China, they could go a long way to improve it without necessarily giving up their authoritarian power.

But let's not dream too much, neither the CCP's nor the mainstream media have such priorities. They are old structures coming from a different World, and they share a single common objective: to survive in times of fast change.

I have realized lately that, due to a certain unbalance in my training methods , my Chinese reading skills might be running ahead of my speech, and I have been forced to take severe corrective measures. At the risk of turning this into an SM blog, I am going to speak today of the terrible penance I imposed on myself to make up for that error. Brace yourself: I watched a whole 22+ hours communist TV serial on CCTV, all in a single week and pausing to understand every word and chengyu.

It is the latest super production of the “Red Army against Capitalists” kind, called 冷箭 , or “Stab in the back”. The first chapter was launched the day of the 60th Anniversary, on CCTV 1 prime time, proving that it was born to be big. Even if it didn't live up to expectations (it was switched later to CCTV 8 nights), I am guessing that more people have watched this than the “Foundation of the Republic” film that so excited Western minds. Admittedly, there is little buzz on the internet about 冷箭, but that is just because the target audience is a different (and much larger) group than the internet community. My own investigations with taxi drivers indicate that it had a very strong following, at least in the first weeks.

对于那些抱怨政治宣传“共和国基金会”（或在独立日，为此事），这些都只是业余的努力下这个“背后捅刀子”。 因为刺是不关心，歪曲事实，但有启发性和提供了一个完整的人的道德体系。 和最喜欢这些受到广泛关注的中国电视连续剧，它仍沿用第一说教了由20世纪30年代在陕西游击队组织的精神，在忠实。

一点点批判

艺术性方面，我将只简单地说，虽然这看起来像最高的预算“红军”系列之一，迄今为止，在提高质量不遵循。 主要问题是可见其生产者和演员几乎无一例外的无能。 知道中国有很好的能够做好电影时，给他们一定的自由，我只能假设这是死官僚选择由央视木乃伊的干部培养想象力的结果。

在这种情况下，主要的故事是关于-惊喜的对西方的长征 ，船长发现有一个资本主义的敌人间谍渗透的团队。 事实上，并非只有一个，而是两个，三个，多被发现在每一个章节，直到串行年底由大队大的部分其实是卧底。 这使贫困边缘黄丁志忠无数次的队长起到戏剧性的偏执，显然是一个主要的卖点，配合运行。 人们不禁要问，为什么所有这些间谍不只是得到一起杀死他们的滑稽的队长，他们大队与国民党明星命名，并得到他们的反革命业务。

I don't know if you have experienced this before when watching a film, but it is one of those instances when deplorable script and performance manage to kill the suspension of disbelief right from the first sequence. Then, suddenly, you find yourself watching a bunch of adult people walking around in funny clothes and uttering pointless nonsense. The result is embarrassing.

I have never been much of a TV watcher, but I do understand that TV films are substandard anywhere in the World, and nonsensical plots or braindead dialogs are by no means exclusive of China. Even the fixation with the deeds of the Red Army marching West is not necessarily more ridiculous than, say, the fixation with illiterate cow herders during the golden age of Westerns. But there is something in these Chinese serials that makes them unique beyond the obvious propaganda and quality issues, and that is the complete set of values that they embody for the edification of the masses.

Edifying the Masses: A Communist Catechism

This is the first time, (and most surely the last) that I watch a complete Chinese propaganda serial, but I believe that the effort is not wasted. Because only getting inside these long works one can appreciate that deeper level that flows underneath, the construction of a public moral system that is very much akin to Religious Instruction .

Here are a few of the points I noted while watching the Stab, for the benefit of those who want to understand these works without throwing 22+ hours of their life down the drain:

• Love: The scenes of love are tacky to nauseate an armored brigade, with perhaps the best example in this scene in minute 40 chapter 4, when the captain “falls in love”. In general, love among the communists is virtuous and innocent, and always secondary to the interests of the organization. There is not the slightest romantic indulgence, no concessions to passion other than for the party. When the communist lover is told that her beloved is a Capitalist spy, she abandons him on the spot, and volunteers to kill him if necessary.

• Sex: Of course, this puritanism does not stop the young lieutenant from having proper sex (under the sheets) starting chapter 25, in a clear effort by the authors to attract more audience. “乱搞男女关系!” (disorderly do man-woman relations!!) chastely exclaims the captain when he gets the news through a disgustingly virtuous informer. But worry not, the ethical purity is safeguarded. These two sinners have betrayed the higher cause, and they receive their deserved punishment without further delay: death at the hands of some brigands.

• Violence: We have seen enough of the likes of Eastwood in Alcatraz to have some expectations about the frightful fate of new prison inmates (especially if they are male!). I don't know to what extent this violence is consistent with reality, but what I am pretty sure is that prison wardens do not tell off the inmates screaming “don't be naughty”, and major disputes in the common cells are not settled through pillow fights. This is exactly how things are done in 冷箭, making the whole experience for the high level KMT prisoners like a children's Summer Camp. This is one of the most puzzling parts of the communist ethics, and the most difficult to grasp in a movement that was imposed largely through violent revolution. It seems to come from a belief in molding mentalities through peaceful labour, but, as we will see below, it has little to do with the Christian notion of “turning your other cheek”.

• Class virtue: Virtue is presented as a characteristic of the proletarian class, and salvation must necessarily follow. Like the ancient Christians looking for consolation in the Bible before they were thrown to the lions, so the Chinese Laobaixing today seem to find solace in these serials, while they wait for the next corrupt CCP cadre to come and tear their homes to serve a rich developer. The notion of a Final Judgment that accompanies this kind of teaching is represented through the iconic verses of the Internationale, sung at several points in the serial, with the main theme conspicuously inspired in the melody of the first verse.

• Forgiveness and Revenge: There is an appalling scene of revenge (ch 31 38:00) when the main spies are apprehended, that completely shocked me after 20 hours of mellow bloodless harmony. The righteous blows of the officers are completely devoid of mercy, enjoying the raw pleasure of revenge. In my observation of the Chinese, this represents very well the paradox of their ethical system: Chinese are by nature far more tolerant than any Western people, but –perhaps as a necessary consequence – once a certain level of crime is attained, this sets off a mechanism of ruthless punishment where the object ceases to be seen as human. This is perhaps the most important difference with Christian influenced ethics, where our less tolerant natures were softened by the love doctrines of the New Testament. The whole discussion of d eath penalty in China vs. Europe is an interesting modern development of this difference in outlooks.

一些结论

There are many ideas here worth commenting further, perhaps one of the most interesting would be to see how this communist system of ethics is working (or failing) to keep the always delicate balance between 道德 (virtue) and Deng Xiaoping's 致富 (getting rich).

Clearly, Chinese are not the only ones to introduce ethics into their TV serials. Popular Western serials have long been educating us with teachings as varied as respect for minorities, tolerance of homosexuality, patriotism or democracy. But crucially, while the Western system of moral instruction has evolved with the times and deals with problems facing today's society, the Chinese system has remained stuck in the 1930s, with the characteristic rigidity of Religious ethics . As a consequence, there is a growing, insurmountable gap in China between the ideas preached and the real needs of the ordinary citizens. This may be having the catastrophic effect of eliminating all ethics from mainland Chinese life.

When we speak of problems like perceived racism, corruption, lack of respect for the public goods or environment, how much of these are related to a lack of a realistic, up-to-date moral support, or to the hijacking of ethics to serve the single interests of the CCP power elite?

I would like to say more about this, but unfortunately this post has got out of control already, and I know nobody reads past the first 1000 words. Write your ideas below about any particular point and if we get some interesting discussion going on we can try to expand the subject in a new post.

This business trip in Sichuan is really full of surprises. Today we went to visit the Project, a giant industrial complex which will be, upon completion, the largest factory in the World to produce X. A typically Chinese megaproject on the bank of the Yangtze.

But the surprise came when we went to town for lunch, and I found out that the river that flowed into the Yangtze at that point was called the Wu. I hadn't realized before, because the industrial park takes a different name, but sure enough, our client confirmed this point: we were in the riverside town of Fuling.

If you have read the classic China book “River Town”, you know why I was so thrilled. If you have not, then go and get it now . Since you are reading my blog, chances are you are one of those crazy Westerners that seek to understand the Chinese. This books explains them all for you, and in the process it gives you a rare glimpse into the life of inland China. It is fascinating, especially if you don't live in the country already.

The Book

I am taking this chance to do a little review of River Town, so I can start to catch up with my old plans of running a book reviews section. Considering this book is relatively old and already well known, I will just stick to the main points and try to keep this post reasonable.

The story is very simple, it tells the experiences and feelings of the author during his 2 year stay as Peace Corps in Fuling, a third tier town on the Yangtze. Nothing really happens, except that it is inland China in the 90s, and everything happens. The book is enjoyable from the beginning, almost every page right to the end.

Here are the key points as promised:

- Very enjoyable natural writing, with vivid descriptions of the places and the people. One of the best examples I know of literature meeting anthropology. Memorable is the description of the Fuling streets and their “stick-stick soldiers” in the initial chapters.

- The author is a fine observer, and he has the advantage of direct access to his students, who write down for him their opinions about a variety of subjects. One of the main highlights of the book is the contrast between the Fuling and the Western mentality, expressed on the background of the classics of English literature.

- For the sake of balance, some points I liked less: towards the end the book looses some strength (not surprising, after the great first half). The scientific detachment of the author can become a bit exasperating, and sometimes it feels like the anthropologist has taken over the writer. The last dramatic scene with the mob doesn't help to fix this, and I couldn't help feeling that it was an unnecessary addition. But then, that is only my opinion, and I was never in Fuling in the 90s.

The River Town

From what I have seen today, the town of Fuling is doing pretty well, changing so fast that it is almost impossible to recognize it in the descriptions of the book. For one thing, it took us less than an hour to get there from the center of Chongqing, which qualifies it as a close suburb. This is in great contrast with the backwater river town of the 90s.

Now the Fulingers are going to have some World class production facilities, and a good part of the population will be working there, with thousands more coming from all over China. It feels strange to realize suddenly that I have become myself one of the characters (although a very secondary one) in the story of the transformation of Fuling.

There seems to be only one thing eternal in China, and that is the masses of the working people, the “laobaixing”. Sure enough, the stick-stick soldiers are still there and in good shape, running up and down the stairs with massive loads hanging from their bamboo poles. For them, nothing has changed.