I’ve been traveling to China for work on and off over the past six years — with a four-year pause during COVID. Anyone who regularly visits China (or even casually follows tech news) knows about the infamous Great Firewall — China’s government-controlled, highly advanced internet censorship system. It blocks a massive range of Western platforms, […]
Why am I writing this So, you are thinking of starting an online business. You want to sell products on either Amazon or Walmart.com—either your own products or as a third party seller—but you don’t know which platform you should start with. While there may not be a one-size-fits-all answer for every company, we have […]
From blogs, to social media, texting, DMs, etc…the digital revolution has had an undeniable effect on punctuation. Think about it: Exclamation points are now used with much greater frequency than they were ever meant to be. Does anyone remember the two-spaces after a period rule? And the symbol formerly known as the pound sign is called a […]
If you have been to China in the last couple of years, you have surely noticed that everyone pays for everything with their cell phones. China has effectively jumped from an all cash economy, past credit cards, directly to what is effectively an all electronic payments system using Tencent’s WeChat Pay, and Alibaba’s Alipay. If […]
Do I Need To Apply For A Visa In Advance To Go To China? Getting a visa to visit China is supposedly difficult, especially if you don’t have a particularly good reason to go there (at least from the government’s perspective). If you are trying to conduct business, you need an invitation letter from a […]