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Jack Ma’s American Journey
Image via Wikipedia In the Hutong And…We’re Back! 1151 hrs. Amidst all of the recent speculation about Alibaba, Jack Ma, and his intentions toward Yahoo!, the real story keeps slipping below the fold:...
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Stop Shunning Beijing’s Foreign Correspondents
Image via Wikipedia In the Hutong Good grief, Thursday already? 1317 hrs. In a recent profile of Michael Lewis, arguably the leading long-form journalist of our age, New York magazine’s Jessica...
View ArticleEight Questions the WSJ Could Have Asked KPMG China
Managing in Asia: KPMG Audit Chief Benny Liu Faces China Risks – WSJ.com. As a public relations professional myself, I want to congratulate the KPMG PR team on their coup in today’s Wall Street...
View ArticleDisinformation Wants to be Free
Hutong West Afternoon sunshine 1250 hrs. One of the book projects for which I have been gathering string for years is a book on disinformation, so I have been following the issue of corporate...
View ArticleThe New Public Affairs
Enroute HND – PEK Dodging thunderstorms 0811 hrs. A lot of the talk in the public relations industry relates to how much the media business is changing, and what that means to a craft that has...
View ArticleBig Pharma, Bad Medicine, and What GSK Can Teach MNCs in China
Hutong West Watching Louis Malle films 0813 hrs I’m a little late to the bar with my take on this, but here it is, in three parts. Experienced China hands – go straight to the third section below. When...
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Whom Can You Trust with your Social Media in China?
Hutong Forward Counting the helicopters outside my window 1629 hrs. local Note: Over the summer I taped a segment for Thoughtful China where I talked briefly about what agencies to use for social...
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Edelman, Rui Chenggang, and China PR
Hutong Forward In the Shadow of the Pentagon 1710 hrs As more details about ties between the China operations of Edelman Public Relations and erstwhile China Central Television (CCTV) anchor Rui...
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Beijing’s New Internet Buzzphrase
Hutong Forward Planespotting at Reagan National 1655 hrs In a ten minute speech last month in London at the 50th Meeting of ICANN, Lu Wei, the Minister of China’s Cyberspace Affairs Administration,...
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Shameless Plug Dept: New Paper on Strategic PR in China
Hutong West The cool before the heat 1855 hrs. Public relations people have a word fetish. We invest the aphorism “words have meaning” with an almost scriptural infallibility. Yet when it comes to...
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Responsa: The Influence of Business on Government
Hutong West Shivering in SoCal 1601 hrs. In response to my article “Standards of Influence,” an old friend and fellow China PR executive raised his hand to offer a gentle objection. While agreeing...
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Acronym of the Week: “HIPRA”
HIPRA, acronym, Huge International Public Relations Agency, a term that refers to a public relations firm with over 1,000 employees or fee billings in excess of US$250 million. These massive public...
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Mi Home
Back in the Hutong Thinking Geek 1427 hrs. Visiting Xiaomi’s Mi Home store near company headquarters in Beijing. At first glance, the store’s appearance bears a passing resemblance to the retail...
View ArticlePR World
Over the past four years I have discovered that there is an implicit belief among many US public relations (PR) practitioners – especially in the large global firms – that PR around the world will...
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Going E
PARIS (Reuters) – French fashion brand Louis Vuitton, part of luxury giant LVMH (LVMH.PA), said on Friday it had launched an e-commerce website in China to tap a booming online shopping market....
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Beating the Olympic Ambush
I am starting to get requests from clients to sit down and talk about communications and marketing strategies around the upcoming Olympiads in Tokyo and Beijing, and one, in particular, has asked me a...
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