US-China – a relationship going sour
Like partners in a bad relationship, the US and China can’t find much right with each other these days. I discuss with Monocle radio:
New Brand, Full Transparency – My Thoughts On Google in China
I published the following in the Nikkei Asian Review here The full text is below: Pity America’s poor internet giants, struggling to add big growth onto already bloated and maturing customer bases! Where must their gaze naturally fall but the promised land of China: so big, so enticing, yet so closed to them and so..
Trump’s Head-Spinning ZTE Tweet Is All About Getting The Win
Donald Trump tweets about China’s tech company ZTE and suddenly the door to corporate death-row is thrown open. What’s going on? And how does it fit with the looming Sino-US trade talks and the situation on the Korean peninsula? I discussed these issues with Monocle radio’s The Globalist program. The whole program is available here..
Now A Member Of The Consultants Collective
I’m really pleased to join the Consultants Collective, a consortium of very experienced former executives who can bring our individual strengths and experiences to clients’ problems in a concerted, logical, simple and organized fashion. Whether a client’s issue can be solved by one of us alone or together in a small group, we are determined..
FIX WHAT’S BROKEN
Here’s a blog post I wrote for Hubii, a company I’ve been working with. The original is here . FIX WHAT’S BROKEN By David Schlesinger Everything in media seems broken. Journalists feel they don’t get paid properly. Publishers see their business model crumbling around them. Advertisers pay for impact but don’t have much idea if..
Where is YOUR Red Line?
I wrote some thoughts on China, Apple…and your company that were published in the Nikkei Asian Review. The published version is here. And the text is below: Apple has to face question of its ‘red line’ in China Doing business requires consideration of which official demands to accept DAVID SCHLESINGER Launches of new iPhone models..
Japan Activities…
This June I’m part of a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists to Japan, where we will advocate for continued and expanded press freedoms and participate in public forums at Waseda and Sophia Universities. Full details are available here. In April, I spoke at Hitotsubashi University on “Journalists, Consultants and Charlatans: How We All..
Glass Full? Glass Empty? The Truth is…
…The truth is China punditry is always looking through a dark, distorted and murky glass. Here are two headlines from two good newspapers with excellent China staffs on the same day:
A Few Reflections On The Past
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong did a short interview with me reflecting on my career. The text can be found here.
Can China’s Best Newspaper Survive?
I’m part of a ChinaFile debate on the state of the South China Morning Post. The whole conversation is here. I make five urgent points I feel the newspaper needs to act on immediately: 1. Write and publish a strong code of ethics and standards making clear that news decisions are taken without regard to politics..