China's Business Press

Just came across an interesting post on the Cha Shao Bao blog, entitled, "The Nature of China's Business Press."  The post is based on a lecture by Arthur Kroeber, the managing director and head of research for Dragonomics and editor-in-chief of the China Economic Quarterly.  Kroeber spoke of the dynamism of China's business press (particularly Caijing) and how the business press has influenced the non-business press and how it has itself sometimes pushed over into non-business reporting.  Kroeber notes how the Chinese government early on in its experiment with capitalism recognized the importance for China's expanding economy to have a somewhat vigorous discussion of business matters in China's media.

I am skeptical economic growth necessarily leads to an opening up in the political arena, but it seems an expanding business press may play a role in the opening up of the media, which in turn, ....