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most forget to ask an important question concerning the dell-lenovo case, "how do they intercept the email?"

the original reporting comes from China Business News, a business daily based in shanghai. from what i know, their style don't allow them to trace such scandals overseas, and it seems the email is most likely provided by the client Chris contacted with, so why the client disclosed the issue to a small business daily based in shanghai he probably never knows before?

so i speculate that the email was intercepted by a third party and delivered to CBN.

as some commentators indicate in recent days, the so-called "email gate scandal" was a well designed and coordinated PR event by lenovo, which intercept the email and sent it to a place far away from where lenovo is based.

while this doesn't change the fact that dell's behavior violated business ethics, the possibility of such an organized PR event and the subsequent "political marketing" in the media just highlight how the chinese media is eroded by money.

unlike political control, the commercialization of media spread like wild fire without being noticed by many observers, and its power of destruction is stronger than anything else we know before.

via: wang jianshuo's blog

lao wang said:

The businessmen in Shanghai are very down to earth. They calculate everything, plan everything in a thorough way and execute it in a solid manner. They also willing to offer help to young people like me. This is the spirit of Shanghai. Although at the very begining, people may feel Shanghai people are too focused on small money, small things, on the other hand, it can be treated as solid ways of doing things.

bingfeng's friend said:

in shanghai, the people are not open and unreserved (通透), it's hard to build up trusting relationships and collaborations are hard to form and maintain

so, it's the two sides of the same coin.

for well structured big companys, shanghai is the place to find down-to-the-earth staff to make the company move forward, in designated path, for entrepreneurs who depend on partners to build up their business base, beijing is a better place for them to explore ...

via: ikaka, asiapundit

one question many chinese asked is, "why a country with western style democracy like india still fall behind china in terms of social and economic development levels while authoritative governments like hongkong and singapore made such great progress?" just to remind you that in their minds, such ideology serves only as a tool not as an end.