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Twitter Appoints Chief In China With Former Chinese Military Ties (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Sinosphere blog at the NYT reports that Twitter has appointed Kathy Chen as Chief for the Greater China Region. Ms. Chen served as an engineer in the Chinese military in the 1980s. After that, she was involved in a joint venture that was partly owned by the country's powerful domestic security ministry. She posted on Friday a message of cooperation to China Central Television, the state-run broadcaster. The language resembled President Xi Jinping's call to the Chinese media to "tell the China story well." Twitter has been and remains blocked in China by the "Great Firewall".Quartz has more details.
You can't succeed in China if you're ethical. Just to start a business, everyone in the local government chain's got to be paid, or you'll have inspections of your business premise daily up to your anus. If you're even moderately successful (like, breaking even) the local street thugs (that are often one and same as the government officials) wants in on that action too. If you're connected, they'll just take their cut. If you're not... well, you can kiss that business of yours goodbye; they'll seize your business, toss your butt in jail (until a ransom paid for your release.) But whatever your final disposition may be, what business you built will no longer be yours.