Daily Archives: February 4, 2010
The ‘State Network Information Center’ Wants to Spy on you. Here’s How to Stop Them…
From the LostLaowai blog: This is a bit sinister: the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has been dropping digital certificates into the
Google Facing Many Risks in China Standoff
Reuters reports on the challenges facing Google since the company announced it would no longer operate a censored search engine in China:Despite earl
China’s Financial System: Red Mist
The Economist provides a Who’s Who of China’s financial system: FROM being a rounding error a decade ago, the financial clout of China now
Eastern Promise
In The National, Howard French reviews The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa:The Chinese are drawn to Africa for the same reason
Beijing Bones up its Cyber-Warfare Capacity
For the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, Willy Lam writes about the Chinese government’s recent efforts to increase and expand their cyb
Hush Money Journalism
Caixin, edited by Hu Shuli, reports on media corruption and the recent mining disaster cover-up in Weixian, Hebei:Later last year, a dozen journalist
A Farewell to Charms: Panda Taishan Returns to China
The hottest news in Washington is not rising tensions between China and the U.S., or even the economy, but the return of the beloved panda Taishan from
Slideshow: The Life of Panda Taishan (by the Smithsonian via flickr)
The Life of Panda Taishan (by the Smithsonian via flickr)
China Stays Silent on Missing Lawyer Gao Zhisheng
The whereabouts of lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who went missing one year ago, are unknown and government officials have failed to provide any details, the BBC
Blogger Describes Xinjiang as an ‘Internet Prison’
Josh of the Far West China blog has written a short piece for the BBC on the current situation with Internet access in Xinjiang, where he lives:Final
Han Han’s Speech At Xiamen University: “The So-called Grand Cultural Nation”
Author, race-car driver and blogger Han Han’s most recent speech at Xiamen University, translated on the EastSouthWestNorth blog: This is my sec
Jiao Xiang (焦翔): “Google, Don’t Become a Tool of Hegemony”
China Media Project reports that comments showing support for Google in China have all but disappeared from the media and online forums in China, and b
Changing China Tied to Rough Ride with U.S.
While some observers say too much is being made in the media of recent tensions between China and the U.S., Reuters reports that conflicting pressures
Q & A: China Under Glass
On his blog, Evan Osnos interviews Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande, and Antony White, authors of China: Museums, about the unusual and sometimes litt
Charles Zhang (张朝阳)：Without Reform There is No Way Out
Charles Zhang (Zhang Chaoyang 张朝阳) is the Founder, Chairman and current CEO of Sohu, China’s second largest Internet portal and the first Chinese
China Censors Oscar Nominations
The Chinese government is censoring news about the upcoming Oscars after China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, an HBO docume
