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Best Blogs – Indonesia

December 30, 2016 By in Architecture, Art, Food, Indonesia, People, Photography, Tourism, Travel Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment
English: Indonesia provinces map (in Malgache)...

English: Indonesia provinces map (in Malgache) Français : Carte des provinces indonésiennes (en malgache) Deutsch: Karte der indonesischen Provinzen Malagasy: Saritanin’ny faritany indonezianina (amin’ny fiteny malagasy) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Location of Lombok in Indonesia.

English: Location of Lombok in Indonesia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Lombok Strait Bahasa Indonesia: Selat...

English: Lombok Strait Bahasa Indonesia: Selat Lombok Nederlands: Straat Lombok (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nederlands: Foto. Kantoorgebouw in art-déco st...

Nederlands: Foto. Kantoorgebouw in art-déco stijl van de Insulinde Oliefabriek. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: The iconic yet largely abandoned Swar...

English: The iconic yet largely abandoned Swarha building in downtown Bandung. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Here are some of our best blogs on Indonesia, ranked by number of hits (highest first): Tropical Art Deco Architecture and Active Volcanoes – Bandung, Java, Indonesia  Lovely Lombok Island Indonesi…

 

Chinese company buys nearly $4-billion stake in Western Digital – LA Times

October 1, 2015 By in Business Administration, Business Strategy, Growth, People Tags: , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment
Western Digital WD740GD Raptor - 10,000 rpm - ...

Western Digital WD740GD Raptor – 10,000 rpm – 74 GB (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

According to the LA Times, a unit of China’s Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. agreed to pay $3.78 billion for a 15% stake in Western Digital Corp., an Irvine-based maker of data-storage disk drives.

Source: Chinese company buys nearly $4-billion stake in Western Digital – LA Times

Along with news that China has beaten Japan to win a contract for Indonesia’s high-speed railway, the alarm bells should start ringing. There are still too many people in Western businesses who think China is heading for a hard landing, so there’s no strategic threat – end of problem – that’s an enormous mistake.

Thoughts?