Feng Zhenghu’s Airport Diary: Global Support (12)
After he was denied re-entry to China eight times, Feng Zhenghu lived in Tokyo’s Narita Airport...
Obama China visit 2009
Zhu Feng (朱锋): The Current International Situation and Our Country’s Foreign Policy
In China, several political bodies are in charge of Internet content control. At the highest level, there is the Central Propaganda Department, which ensures that media and cultural content follows the official line as mandated...
Top Chinese Editor Demoted after Barack Obama Interview
The Guardian reports that a top editor for Southern Weekend has been demoted after publishing an exclusive interview with President Obama during his China visit last month: Southern Weekend confirmed Xiang Xi had been named as...
Girl in Black at Obama’s China Meet a Hit Online
A student in attendance at one of President Obama’s visits in China has created an internet sensation: She has become China’s version of the “Obama Girl”, as online forums gushed over her beauty and...
China’s Backing on Iran Followed Dire Predictions
The Washington Post reports on the negotiations that preceded President Obama’s request that China support his stance against Iran’s nuclear proliferation: The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran’s...
Timothy Garton Ash: Two Ways for West to Meet China
In the wake of President Obama’s China visit, Timothy Garton Ash puts forward two approaches the West could take to engage China. From the Malaysian Insider: Diplomatically, the US will have significant possibilities of...
Ying Chan: Obama Loses a Round (Updated)
Ying Chan, director of the Journalism and Media Studies Center at The University of Hong Kong, writes an op-ed in the New York Times about the images portrayed during President Obama’s visit to China last week: While the...
Obama’s Warming to China Is Seen as Slight in India
With President Obama having completed his first visit to China, and getting ready to host the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Washington, the India-China-U.S. triangle is getting more complicated. From the New York...
Up Against the Great Wall of China
Analysis of President Obama’s China visit, and the media coverage it received, continues. Howard French, former New York Times Shanghai bureau chief, tells Columbia Journalism Review: “The piece that really relates...
Did The Chinese Watch Obama’s Town Hall?
Take a look at the number of Internet viewers of Obama’s townhall-style meeting in Shanghai, via Marc Ambinder’s at The Atlantic’s Politics Blog: The China gig was tricky, given the practicalities of internet...
Obama’s China Interview Mystery (Updated)
From the Wall Street Journal Blog: President Barack Obama’s first attempt to speak directly to China’s people during his trip this week was marred by Beijing’s failure to broadcast the remarks nationwide as promised. Now his...
Propaganda Department Bans Online Distribution of Obama Interview (With Photos)
During his trip to China, President Obama was interviewed by Southern Weekend in a very brief piece that had some trouble being distributed. An order from the Central Propaganda Department ordering websites and other media not...
White House Correspondents Take on China
Evan Osnos writes about the history of White House correspondents accompanying U.S. presidents to China, and how the current cropped fared last week: “For White House reporters, venturing out of the comfort and security of the...
Southern Weekend Interviews President Obama (Updated)
As mentioned in our previous post, President Obama sat down for an interview with Southern Weekend. Malcolm Moore at the Telegraph has translated the brief interview. As Moore points out, “Since just about everything that...
Lee Davidson: Huntsman Pleased with Obama in China
From the Deseret news: U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr. said Tuesday that he’s “very, very proud” of how President Barack Obama is pushing human rights and handling all other major issues with Chinese...
In Obama’s China Trip, a Stark Contrast with the Past (Updated)
Now that President Obama has moved on to South Korea, the reviews of his time in China are in. From the Washington Post: U.S. presidents have been trekking to China — and also lauding the Great Wall — since Richard...
PBS NewsHour: In China, a Struggle for Rights, but Hope for Future (Updated with Video)
Jim Lehrer speaks with a human rights activist and a China expert about the state of the struggle for human rights in China. From PBS NewsHour Online: JIM LEHRER: That follows, from President Obama’s talk of human rights...
Tao Weishuo (陶韡烁) Defends his Statement: “All Chinese People Have Internet Freedom”
Following President Obama’s townhall meeting with students in Shanghai, during which Obama spoke out against Internet censorship, a student participant from Fudan University, Tao Weishuo (陶韡烁), was quoted in the Washington...
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