And you thought the milk business was so wholesome…
The milk business in China just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. A couple of months ago baby formula maker Synutra found itself the victim of allegationsthat its product was linked to early puberty...
View ArticleDid the “Genocide Olympics” influence China?
Propaganda and censorship are two sides of the same coin. Both share the same goal: to enable an individual or organization to shape consensus in a group. They often work together. Censorship...
View ArticleChina’s food crisis PR strategy: Blame everyone else
A few weeks into China’s rippling food quality crisis a PR strategy is coming into view. It’s a classic one: blame everyone else. Unfortunately, it’s not likely to be all that effective because of two...
View ArticleChina problems create rewards (and disasters) for PR risk takers
Note: This was originally two posts, published within a few days of each other. Part 1: China problems create rewards for PR risk takers (July 30, 2007) All PR has an element of risk to it. That’s one...
View ArticleWhat to make of Edwin Maher?
Imagethief found the LA Times article on CCTV9′s western anchorman, Edwin Maher, quite interesting. I didn’t have time to comment on it when it first appeared, but in general I found the story balanced...
View ArticleMelamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that’s a crisis!
If you want to get people mad –I mean fired-up, torch-and-pitchfork enraged– screw with their pets or their babies. That’s what we’ve learned over the past year thanks to the unfortunate tendency of...
View ArticleIs Wal-Mart’s eco-consciousness in China more than PR?
Sunday is shopping day in the Imagethief household, so this morning Mrs. Imagethief, Zachary and I bundled ourselves up and headed out to Wal-Mart. Before you gasp in a fit of effete surprise, let me...
View ArticleFree laptops for NPC delegates – it looked good on paper
Let’s say you’re a company selling some kind of product. Let’s say your product is –let’s just pick something at random here– laptop computers. Globally, this is a heavily commoditized category jammed...
View ArticleApocalypse box part one: Thinking unthinkable thoughts
Note: This is part one. Part two is here. Apropos of today’s escalation of the Fukushima reactor disaster to “7″ (Chernobyl) on the international scale, there is something about the word “radiation”...
View ArticleCoverup? Huawei Should Send Its PR Bill to ZTE
I’ve never been much for conspiracy theories. Not that I don’t like a touch of the fantastic in my daily life (I live in China, after all). But when you think about the sheer logistics involved in most...
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