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, […]
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 […]