Monthly Archives: December 2010
‘True Democracy’ Within China’s Politburo?
Can one find democracy in China? According to a US source in Beijing, the country’s Politburo is more interested in consensus than decrees —
Eighteen More Countries Refuse to Attend Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
The Chinese government has been pressuring its allies not to attend the December 10 Nobel Prize Ceremony, during which the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded
China and U.S. Narrow Gap in Climate Talks
In the year since the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, both China and the U.S. have softened their positions and are now more likely to reach agreement
CDT Launches the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon
China Digital Times has launched a participatory Web 2.0 initiative we are calling “Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon,” (“GMH Lexicon”) an online glo
China’s Credit Bubble On Borrowed Time As Inflation Bites.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trade trades
Stanley Lubman: Failures in Enforcing China’s Green Legislation
For the Wall Street Journal’s China Real TIme blog, Chinese law expert Stanley Lubman writes about why anti-pollution laws which are on the books
Google Seeks Way to Rebalance in China
The Financial Times reports that Google has been recalibrating its China presence since removing its search engine from mainland-based servers a year ago: Google
Photo: Hairdressers in Shanghai receive a lesson from their boss, by Damien Polegato
Hairdressers in Shanghai receive a lesson from their boss, by Damien Polegato
Are Chinese Media a Public Nuisance?
Recently Kong Qingdong (孔庆东), a China studies professor at Peking University, remarked, while discussing the freewheeling Nanfang Media Group, “Right now j
China in Africa: Perspectives from Ghana
And speaking of China in Africa, China Talking Points blog points us to a video produced by Edward Bishop with looks at attitudes toward Chinese in Ghana
Latest Directives from the Ministry of Truth, November 29-December 6, 2010
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government
Golden Shield Music
From marcodonnarumma.com: Golden Shield Music (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is a generative composition for eight audio channels that sits somewhere between
The Zambian Shootings in the Chinese Media
The African Boots blog translates an investigative piece in New Century Weekly about the shooting of Zambian miners at a Chinese-managed mine who had protested
U.S. Steps up Pressure on China to Rein in N. Korea
Officials in Washington believe Beijing is “enabling” dangerous behavior by North Korea, John Pomfret reports for the Washington Post: In
WikiLeaks Cables: ‘Aggressive’ China Losing Friends Around the World
In other diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman wrote that numerous other countries had expressed concern over
