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In fall 2024, the BIOSECURE Act, which blocked the United States (US)’s government’s use of goods and services from Chinese…
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We cover stories relating to the political economy of multinational corporations in and from East Asia; bring you leading experts on related topics; and highlight the work of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations
Season 2 Episode 3
Searching Deep for DeepSeek, part II; Stuck clock for TikTok; Tesla’s bumpy road in China; Apple plane finally lands and Apple AI in China; Mapping out Google Maps; and tech potpourri
March 17, 2025
This episode continues our coverage of DeepSeek; looks at the stuck and ticking clocks facing TikTok; discusses the Apple plane's successful landing in Indonesia; offers intelligence on Apple intelligence in China; charts out the Google maps Gulf of something imbroglio; and offers a mix of material on topics like Telegram, Australian content moderation, and Rumble's rumble with Brazil.
Season 2 Episode 2
Clock ticking on TikTok; Apple plane still circling Indonesia; searching deep about DeepSeek; Shein’s lost luster; and taxing tech and taxed by it
February 13, 2025
In this episode, we discuss the TikTok's ticking clock and the effort, by some, to rescue it; track the Apple plane waiting to unload iPhone 16s in Indonesia; dive deep into the growing control and regulation of DeepSeek; examine EU and US measures affecting fast-retailer Shein and also Temu; and cover the ongoing battle between governments and tech companies on multiple fronts.
Season 2 Episode 1
TikTok fun in Romania, Albania, and the US of A(nia); Google challenges in Japan, Korea, and Russia; Starlink Star Wars in India, Taiwan, and Italy; ABC on social media; and Moans about Meta drive mashing in Australia, the EU, and elsewhere
January 16, 2025
This episode, the first of 2025, delves into TikTok's challenges, above all in the US of A; Google's pressures chamber in East Asia countries like Japan and Korea and Russia; Australia's path breaking ban on social media usage for children; and Meta's challenges in Australia and the European Union (what's new?) and its fluctuating relationship with Russia.
Season 1 Episode 8
Volkswagen’s Xinjiang unraveling and loose threads for Uniqlo; China pressures Nvidia; Sweet Apples in China while Intel makes offerings and riding the Meta Llama is scorned; the long and short of the US TikTok ban and troubles for TikTok in Romania and
December 17, 2024
This episode examines Volkswagen's exit from Xinjiang and the loosening of Xinjiang threads for Uniqlo; Chinese pressures against Nvidia; Apple's continued courting of China, Intel's offerings to the Middle Kingdom, and the scorning of those riding Meta's Llama; the long and short of the US TikTok ban and troubles for TikTok in Romania and beyond; Indonesia vs. the smartphone companies; and Japan vs. the Amazons. Yet more awesome coverage is our gift to you for the holidays!
Season 1 Episode 7
Bombs on TikTok; the China challenge yet again; tech tensions in Korea and Vietnam; Indonesia drives a hard bargain; and the European Union sqeeze
November 19, 2024
Episode 7 scans the bombs raining on TikTok; surveys the challenges facing multinational corporations in China and those dumping on them for dealing with China; describes problems for tech companies in Korea and Vietnam; examines Indonesia's smarting policy towards smartphones; and reviews the European Unions rocky relations with tech companies.
Season 1 Episode 6
The Line on Line-Naver; Harley spills and 7 & I chills in Japan; X back in step with Brazil; Korea cracks Google and US cracks Korean chips; and the Travails of Telegram
October 27, 2024
In this episode, we update you on the LINE-Naver Saga; delve into Harley Davidson's bumpy ride in Japan and chills & spills regarding 7 & I; cover the challenges of Google and others in Korea and the challenges facing Korean chip companies; do a post about X and Brazil...and Australia...; and discuss the travails of Telegram.
Season 1 Episode 6
The Line on Line-Naver; Harley spills and 7 & I chills in Japan; X back in step with Brazil; Korea cracks Google and US cracks Korean chips; and the Travails of Telegram
October 27, 2024
In this episode, we update you on the LINE-Naver Saga; delve into Harley Davidson's bumpy ride in Japan and chills & spills regarding 7 & I; cover the challenges of Google and others in Korea and the challenges facing Korean chip companies; do a post about X and Brazil...and Australia...; and discuss the travails of Telegram.
Season 1 Episode 6
The Line on Line-Naver; Harley spills and 7 & I chills in Japan; X back in step with Brazil; Korea cracks Google and US cracks Korean chips; and the Travails of Telegram
October 27, 2024
In this episode, we update you on the LINE-Naver Saga; delve into Harley Davidson's bumpy ride in Japan and chills & spills regarding 7 & I; cover the challenges of Google and others in Korea and the challenges facing Korean chip companies; do a post about X and Brazil...and Australia...; and discuss the travails of Telegram.
Season 1 Episode 5
Bull in a China shop; Modulating Content Moderation; G X Y or T K O? X; and Rocking TikTok
September 12, 2024
This episode covers the recent travails of those doing business in or with China as well as the struggles of Chinese companies venturing abroad. It also addresses the ever present theme of content moderation. It supplies, too, juicy content about X and the EU, X and Venezuela, and, most of all, X and Brazil. Lastly, it examines some recent news pertaining to TikTok.
Season 1 Episode 4
Mashing Microsoft; Musk freed, flapped, and foiled; Australia acts Up and act up about Australia; and Europe energized before its summer slumber
July 27, 2024
Episode 4 of Season 1 looks at the softening of SOFTEE (aka Microsoft) around the world; the liberation, rerouting, and pummeling of Tesla; activist Australia and activists about Australian regulation; and the European Commission's latest burst of energy (at least until August) to regulate tech.
Season 1 Episode 3
Censorship and corporate compliance in China, censorship and content moderation elsewhere, big and small tech regulation, LINE-Naver shenanigans, and corporations caught in the US-China crossfire
June 21, 2024
This episode covers censorship and corporate compliance (capitulation?) in China, censorship and content moderation elsewhere, and the regulation of tech big and small, primarily in Europe. We also touch upon recent LINE-Naver shenanigans and corporations caught in the crossfire of the US-China tit-for tat.
Season 1 Episode 2
Apple looks elsewhere (and not); Tesla charged up in China; Japan searches for Google; Google Gags; Middle East Muddles and google; Content moderation conundrums
May 17, 2024
In this episode, we cover Apple's supply chain relocation; Tesla's charge up in China; Japan's search for Google (found it); Google gags (not the funny kind) in India; the Middle East muddle for google and others; and the complexities of content moderation for X in Australia and others elsewhere
Season 1 Episode 1
For MNCs, China churns; Korea chops; Japan maneuvers; and, well, EU regulates
April 18, 2024
This episode tracks stories appearing mostly during the 1st quarter of 2024 pertaining to MNCs and China; Korean regulatory endeavors; Japan's stiffening regulatory regime; and the ever wrathful European Union. Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft get "Face" time with a few mentions of Amazon and even AliExpress and Temu to boot!
