China
September 10, 2026 | 18 min
IT Support in Beijing for a Foreign Insurer's Office: The Evidence Test
A composite scenario: a foreign insurance group's licensed Beijing entity passes every day-to-day IT check and fails the one that matters at audit time - can it show access, patch and data-location records for policyholder data.
September 02, 2026 | 15 min
The Livestream That Couldn't Go Down
A composite scenario from Hangzhou: 45 people running a European brand's Tmall, JD and Douyin storefronts, with no local IT and a calendar dominated by 618 and 11.11. Why peak-shaped risk needs pre-positioned capacity rather than a permanent hire.
August 26, 2026 | 23 min
China Employment Law for Foreign-Invested Enterprises: What IT and Ops Leaders Actually Need to Know
A research report on the employment-law exposure a foreign-invested enterprise carries when it employs its own IT staff in mainland China — the September 2025 judicial interpretation, non-competes and trade secrets for technical staff, and what actually has to happen when a systems administrator leaves.
August 24, 2026 | 12 min
How to Build a Customer-Facing AI Chatbot in WeChat with Tencent Hunyuan
A practical build for a customer-facing AI chatbot on WeChat using Tencent Hunyuan — grounding answers in real product and order data, when it must escalate, and the PIPL obligations that come with it.
August 21, 2026 | 23 min
Managed IT Services Pricing Benchmarks: Hong Kong, China, and Singapore (2026)
A research report on what managed IT services actually cost per user per month in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Singapore — built on published, market-specific rate card data, with every source named and every evidence gap flagged rather than filled.
