Eric Jou's discussions

Xenophobia is actually a big part of Chinese culture not just modern (Communist China) culture. The age old term for foreigners in China is 老外 or old outsider. The current fear now is that the government loses control of these protests. Read more

Xenophobia is actually a big part of Chinese culture not just modern (Communist China) culture. The age old term for foreigners in China is 老外 or old outsider. The current fear now is that the government loses control of these protests. Read more

I went with a slightly stronger term for it. But the gist was close to Brainless =[. And yeah you understoond! Read more

don't think the eu can help. Read more

Love the Shout out ;-; I think i might've actually had a mild heart attack! Read more

Dude...If you want to get technical lets do it this way. China - Peoples Republic of China - PRC China is different from Taiwan which as you pointed out is Republic of China. The PRC and ROC are two different regimes. Foxconn hails from the ROC. While the operate in China they are from Taiwan. While China and Taiwan… Read more

I didn't find it that bad. Definitely, i'll message you should I be in HK anytime soon. I'm there for a day or two 3-4 times a year. Read more

heh lucky you =] enjoy! Read more

I'm sure he would - but I feel that as a writer for Kotaku (even though I do East) I should try my best to cater get people to just like Kotaku as a whole. Kotaku East is just a piece to the whole that is this website. Read more

Dude...Foxconn is not a Chinese company. It's From Taiwan which is an ally of the US. There really isn't a Chinese company that is like Foxconn. Chinese companies often lack the managerial experience to pull off something like Foxconn. If you look at all of these manufacturing/assembly companies they're mostly from… Read more

Macao - is the State Approved Spelling in Mainland China hence why that little tidbit was in the story =[. I will fix it to say Macau Peninsula - I kept looking at the map and thinking about how it feels more like an island than a Peninsula. Read more

I was thinking more like Sleeping Dogs! if you haven't played it yet do yourself a favor and do! Then you can you come back to Kotaku next week and read my rant about why there should be more games like it! Read more

I was actually just over there - like the 19th to the 22nd! I was going to goto Hong Kong but I couldn't get a reservation for an iPhone 5, now I have to wait till apple announces for China proper and then weasel one from Apple Pr. *perks of being a journalist* Read more

There are quite a few - unfortunately my camera wasn't on my person when I visited those. They were quite nice! Read more

Man I would love to report on an Indian Sweatshop - by love I mean actually show the world what it's like. I think Foxconn gets the gist of attention because of how closely it impacts us directly. That's not say indian sweatshops don't. Read more

my apologies - fixing it now - there are reportedly about 79000 employees, some reports say 100000. I tend to skew lower. Its about 2000 workers involved in the riot. Did you know that Foxconn plans to move towards south America next? Read more

never had that experience with a japanese restaurant cause i never order Tsingtao -all spelt together btw- at a japanese restaurant. Why should you when you have Asahi - Kirin - and Suntory? A little tidbit - not all restaurants serve Tsingtao in China - loads of places serve local beer. Unfortunately in Beijing local… Read more

can you prove it?! I'd love to see evidence that it's fake, I can blast it onto their message boards! Read more

All official media and media that reports that news is owned by the party/govt. They control CCTV which has 20 plus channels and etc. The "Satellite" channels are mostly entertainment. Read more

heh - it's always about the money. Read more