I refer to the article by Philip Cunningham headlined, 'Poet's arrest a great leap backwards' (South China Morning Post, August 29).
While pleased to be called a 'business savvy producer', and to have our 'talented editor' Kaiser Kuo singled out for mention, I would like to respond to inaccuracies regarding our company, ChinaNow.com.
Mr Cunningham implies that ChinaNow relies on shadowy guanxi (connections) to stay in business and further paints our content as 'salacious', with portraits of 'gangsters, ganja and groupies'.
There are three issues - our business itself, our connections to political figures and our content.
As for our business, we are one of the few foreign-invested Chinese Internet firms to have properly attained an Internet content provider (ICP) licence (and therefore operate in accordance with local law).
This has nothing to do with political connections.