China Tech Talk 17: China’s largest retailer with Josh Gartner

This week Matt and John talk with Josh Gartner, veteran China hand and VP for International Corporate Affairs at JD.com, about: How JD stacks up ag…

JD is using drones to help rural e-commerce take off

A drone glides through the air over fields of green carrying a red box—the iconic red of China's e-commerce giant JD.com—under the center of its body. …

Gadget recycling platforms go for gold with old smartphones

As the world’s largest smartphone market, China is set to retire around 400 million smartphones per year. The precious metals found in smartphones make…

This Is What China’s First Operational Drone Deliveries Look Like

Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has revealed the country's first operational pilot program for drone deliveries, as tech firms compete to reach the c…

The Coming Out of China’s Tech Companies (Part 1)

There is little excuse for the current level of misinformation, negative predisposition, or outright ignorance on the rapidly maturing Chinese tech ecosystem, especially from industry professionals who are community members of the largest congregation of smart people from all over the world, the Silicon Valley. Cliché criticisms around government intervention and media censorship, favoritism of the local companies, copycat start-ups, Facebook and Twitter’s blocking, Google’s very unfortunate exit, as well as eBay’s, Paypal’s, Amazon’s (and so on, the list is long) notorious failures to breakthrough in the China market in the past decade have all got considerable elements of truth in them but, left at that, they are no more than Aesopian “sour grape” type of aphorisms. They are only one side of the coin and thus dangerously misleading.