The separate visits by at least four cabinet members, including the deputy prime minister, Taro Aso, were the first to the Yasukuni Shrine by members of the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an outspoken nationalist who took power in December. The large shrine of Japan’s native Shinto religion honors the nation’s war dead, including several who were executed as war criminals after World War II. This has made it a target of condemnation in China and South Korea, both of which suffered greatly as a result of Japan’s empire-building efforts in the early 20th century.

The Japanese news media said that while Mr. Abe refrained from visiting the shrine to avoid provoking China and South Korea, he did send a ritual offering of the branch of a cypress tree, used in traditional Shinto ceremonies. Sunday was the start of a three-day spring festival at the shrine when conservative politicians frequently visit and offer prayers.

[…] Before Mr. Abe took office, there had been widespread concern that he might say or do something to outrage victims of Japanese wartime aggression. But Mr. Abe has so far acted with restraint, apparently eager to avoid isolating Japan in the region. He has responded calmly to almost daily intrusions by Chinese ships into waters claimed by Japan around disputed islands in the East China Sea.

In response, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se cancelled what would have been the two countries’ first ministerial meetings under their new governments, while Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Japan must face its history and respect its neighbors’ feelings. Her comments echoed those of ministry spokesman Hong Lei, who said last month in anticipation of a possible shrine visit by Abe himself that “only when Japan faces up to the past can it embrace the future.”

At Bloomberg last week, author Pankaj Mishra grappled with Japan’s “extreme case of forgetfulness, ignorance and self-absorption,” while acknowledging the “absurdity” and “hypocrisy” of the Allies’ post-war Tokyo Trials.

[…] Yushukan [the museum at the Yasukuni Shrine] takes too many liberties with historical accuracy. It presents the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which inaugurated a particularly deranged phase of Japanese militarism, as an act of “legitimate self-defense.” The Rape of Nanjing in 1937 is referred to as the Nanjing Incident in which “Chinese soldiers in civilian clothes” were “severely prosecuted.”

[…] Nothing undermines this litany of half-truths, omissions, suppressions and outright falsehoods than the simple failure to acknowledge that Japan’s pan-Asianist crusade, which claimed more than 10 million lives in China alone, came as a calamity to most Asians.

But it is a bit unfair to expect Japan’s conservative rulers today to periodically denounce their country’s short-lived empire and produce apologies on demand to its former enemies while British Tories propose to celebrate their imperial past in revised history textbooks.

[…] As Japan searches, still confusedly, for a new identity within Asia, it may come to appreciate, as Jeff Kingston, a close observer of contemporary Japan, writes, “the potential benefits of reassuring past enemies.” But how will the effort at reconciliation with victims of Japanese aggression shape official memories of Japan’s war in Asia?

A Hefei restaurateur named Xu recently confronted Japan’s war history in his own way by naming his restaurant’s toilets ‘Yasukuni Shrine’. From Amy Li at South China Morning Post:

A diner who recently ate at the restaurant ended up taking photos of the newly named restroom and posting them on Weibo, where they went viral and triggered mixed reactions.

“All restrooms in China should adopt this name,” wrote a blogger.

Some others deemed the “patriotic” act too extreme.

Wang Kaiyu, a researcher at Anhui’s Academy of Social Sciences, said Xu’s actions were understandable, but not “appropriate.”

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As reporters gather in Seoul to await the latest hostile missive (or missile) from the North, Western governments have continued to press China to do more to rein in their putative ally. Like a pit pull chained in the front yard, North Korea does keep the neighbours on edge. Of course there is always the danger of what might happen if you neglect to feed the dog.

China’s involvement on the Korean peninsula in the period since the Korean war has been cited amply in recent press accounts. But Beijing’s interests there have historical roots which reach back far earlier than 1950. For more than two thousand years, successive Chinese dynasties have seen Korea as a tributary to be protected, a prize to be coveted, or as a dangerous land bridge which might convey “outer barbarians” into China. Unsurprising then that China should have a long history of mucking about in Korean politics, a history which has often brought it into conflict with that other great Eastern power, Japan. This has seldom worked out well for the Korean people. Nor has it led to much joy for China.

[…] The misgivings felt by Koreans watching outside forces—particularly China and Japan—intervening to solve problems on the peninsula is understandable, against the historical backdrop. As is China’s reluctance to commit itself to managing Pyongyang. Today’s deadlock is both a legacy of the cold war and the latest chapter in a long story of power shifts across East Asia.

At Tea Leaf Nation last week, Taylor Washburn focused on the disputed status of the first-millennium “proto-Korean” kingdom of Goguryeo:

In late January, 2013, South Korea’s Hankyoreh newspaper reported that an elite group of scholars in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin was conducting “closed research” on a freshly discovered stele, an engraved memorial stone dating to the fifth century A.D. What interest could the examination of such an artifact hold for contemporary Korean readers? “Concerns are being raised,” the Hankyoreh piece noted vaguely, “that […] it is very likely that China will use the results of the study … to reinforce its argument that Goguryeo belongs to China.”

[…] Whatever defensive instincts may have inspired China’s Goguryeo revisionism, efforts to downplay the independence of Korean civilization cannot but appear menacing from across the Yellow Sea. In a 2012 poll, nearly three quarters of South Koreans indicated that they perceive China as a military threat. Although some of this growing fear undoubtedly stems from Beijing’s ongoing support for Pyongyang, it also reflects a deeper anxiety that a stronger China will seek to revive elements of the Sinocentric regional order that prevailed in East Asia before the arrival of Westerners and the ascent of Meiji Japan, under which Korea’s rulers paid tribute to the Manchu Qing.

If the current Chinese investigation of the Jilin stele continues to make news in Korea, it will certainly exacerbate such unease. What remains to be seen is whether Beijing, mindful of its own security imperatives, will determine this a price worth paying. For the moment, at least, the ghosts of Goguryeo can rest. But William Faulkner’s familiar observation is as true of Manchuria as Mississippi: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

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Original post: South Korean authorities have revealed that malware used in a major cyberattack against Korean banks and broadcasters has been traced to an IP address in China. (For a detailed description of the attack, see Sean Gallagher’s account at Ars Technica.) The attack came amid North Korean threats of “catastrophic” retaliation if the U.S. persisted in flying B-52 bombers over the peninsula, however, and Pyongyang is widely regarded as the chief suspect. From Choe Sang-hun at The New York Times:

The Korea Communications Commission said Thursday that the disruption originated at an Internet provider address in China but that it was still not known who was responsible.

Many analysts in Seoul suspect that North Korean hackers honed their skills in China and were operating there. At a hacking conference here last year, Michael Sutton, the head of threat research at Zscaler, a security company, said a handful of hackers from China “were clearly very skilled, knowledgeable and were in touch with their counterparts and familiar with the scene in North Korea.”

But there has never been any evidence to back up some analysts’ speculation that they were collaborating with their Chinese counterparts. “I’ve never seen any real evidence that points to any exchanges between China and North Korea, ” said Adam Segal, a senior fellow who specializes in China and cyberconflict at the Council on Foreign Relations.

From Bloomberg News:

“Discovering that the code was from China makes it more likely that the attack was from North Korea, because a lot of North Korean hackers operate there,” said Ryou Jae Cheol, a professor of computer engineering and securities at Chungnam National University. “Who else would be making this kind of attack at this scale and timing other than North Korea?”

[…] “It’s highly probable that North Korea used Chinese IPs for the attacks,” said Lim Jong In, dean of Korea University’s Graduate School of Information Security. “These are sentimental attacks, aimed at spreading confusion to the whole society by paralyzing media and financial institutions. But it will take some time to exactly track who’s behind this as China is unlikely to actively cooperate.”

At Reuters, Ju-min Park described the difficulty of assessing North Korea’s cyberwarfare capabilities:

Jang Se-yul, a former North Korean soldier who went to a military college in Pyongyang to groom hackers and who defected to the South in 2008, estimates the North has some 3,000 troops including 600 professional hackers in its cyber unit.

[…] The North’s professional “cyber-warriors” enjoy perks such as luxury apartments for their role in what Pyongyang has defined as a new front in its “war” against the South, Jang told Reuters.

[…] “North Korea can’t invest in fighter jets or warships, but they have put all their resources into raising hackers. Qualified talent matters to cyber warfare, not technology,” said Lee Dong-hoon, an information security expert at Korea University in Seoul.

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The authorities in Pyongyang said scientists had set off a “miniaturised” nuclear device with a greater explosive force than those used in two previous nuclear tests, in 2006 and 2009.

“It was confirmed that the nuclear test that was carried out at a high level in a safe and perfect manner using a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously did not pose any negative impact on the surrounding ecological environment,” KCNA, the North’s official news agency, announced.

The agency said the test had been in response to “outrageous” US hostility that “violently” undermined the regime’s right to peacefully launch satellites – a reference to the condemnation and tighter sanctions that greeted Pyongyang’s successful rocket launch almost two months ago.

For the latest updates, see liveblogs at NKNews.org and Reuters.

After some initial confusion, China’s Foreign Ministry expressed “resolute” opposition to the test (Chinese), which has placed Beijing in an awkward position. From Jane Perlez at The New York Times:

The nuclear test by North Korea on Tuesday, in defiance of warnings by China, leaves the new Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, with a choice: Does he upset North Korea just a bit by agreeing to stepped up United Nations sanctions, or does he rattle the regime by pulling the plug on infusions of Chinese oil and investments that keep North Korea afloat?

[…] The Obama administration excoriated Mr. Hu [Jintao] after North Korea’s second nuclear test in 2009, accusing him of “willful blindness” to the country’s actions.

“With Hu out of the picture the administration is intent on determining whether Xi Jinping will prove more attentive to U.S. security concerns,” Jonathan D. Pollack, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution said. “How Xi chooses to respond will be an important early signal of his foreign policy priorities and whether he is ready to cooperate much more openly and fully with Washington and Seoul than his predecessor.”

China’s patience with its wayward satellite had already been wearing thin: an editorial in the state-run Global Times early this month urged that North Korea “must pay a heavy price” for a third nuclear test. From Christopher Bodeen at The Associated Press:

“Perhaps Kim Jong Un thinks Xi Jinping will indulge him. Perhaps he’s in for a surprise,” said Richard Bush, Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.

[…] “At the start, China gave him a warm welcome and, I think, some aid. But we got no gratitude. They take us for granted,” said Jin Canrong, an international affairs expert at Renmin University in Beijing. “China tried to get closer to him, but it was not successful. China has become very disappointed.”

Yet Beijing also sees Pyongyang as a crucial buffer against U.S. troops based in South Korea and Japan. It also deeply fears a regime collapse could send swarms of refugees across its border. For those reasons, Beijing is unlikely to cut Pyongyang adrift, even if it pushes North Korea harder to end its nuclear provocations and reform its broken-down economy.

The New York Time’s Perlez had also examined the debate prior to the test:

For all the concern in some quarters about North Korea’s wayward behavior, that dread of losing a buffer still prevails among China’s most influential policy makers, particularly in the military, according to Jia Qingguo, a professor at Beijing University’s School of International Studies who is a proponent of a new policy toward North Korea.

“It’s better than before, but it is still difficult to overcome” the mind-set, he said. “A lot of people are taking the very old-fashioned belief that North Korea is a strategic buffer, and they still believe American invaders would march over North Korea to come to China.”

[…] Despite the strains, many analysts are convinced that China remains a firm ally of North Korea. China was only blowing off steam by allowing news media criticism of Pyongyang, said Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, North East Asia director and China adviser for the International Crisis Group in Beijing.

“The traditionalists in the People’s Liberation Army and the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party control foreign policy [on North Korea],” she said. “The political relationship between China and North Korea right now is at a low point, but China’s longstanding priorities on the Korean Peninsula of no war, no instability and no nukes remain in that order of priority.”

Tuesday’s detonation may force China’s hand. Global Times’ Wang Zhang and Hao Zhou reported on February 5th that Beijing had been “diplomatically cornered” by the threat of the test:

[… A] South Korean embassy official told the Global Times that Seoul is well aware that North Korea rarely listens to Beijing’s advice. What South Korea expects is just pressure from China in line with the other participants of the Six-Party Talks to deliver a clear message before it attempts an audacious and defiant third nuclear test, the official said.

“This is a grave test of China’s diplomacy,” said Zhang Liangui, a professor on Korean Peninsula issues at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

If China fails to persuade North Korea to give up its plan for a fresh nuclear test or fails to deliver immediate and severe sanctions that could substantially hit North Korea after the test, China will forever lose the chance to play a dominant role on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and all the previous efforts to realize the denuclearization of the peninsula will have been in vain, Zhang said.

But the diplomatic mushroom cloud may have a silver lining. From The Economist, on February 2nd:

Now, more than ever, China might want to seem a contributor to regional peace. Its belligerence over the disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu islands has brought relations with Japan to their worst level since 1945, with China now considering Japan’s proposal for a summit between its prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the Communist Party leader, Xi Jinping. China’s assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea has soured relations there, too. The Philippines has been provoked into asking a UN tribunal to rule on whether part of China’s claim has a legal basis.

On both those issues China will find it hard to offer concessions. This week Mr Xi growled that “no country should presume that we will engage in trade involving our core interests or that we will swallow the ‘bitter fruit’ of harming our sovereignty, security or development.”

North Korea offers a chance for China to seem flexible without jeopardising any “core interests” and, indeed, to enhance its own security at the same time. The new treatment of North Korea could also strengthen China’s relations with South Korea, which were damaged by the failure to join the widespread international condemnation of the North for attacks on the South in 2010. And it would offer what Zhu Feng, a scholar at Peking University, calls “a new platform for China and the United States to get closer”.

In any case, many Chinese netizens appear to have lost patience. From Liz Carter at Tea Leaf Nation:

Writer and critic Yao Bo took to Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, asking, “Who can North Korea threaten with its nuke? It can’t reach America, and it doesn’t have any grievance with Japan. They share a language and culture with the South Koreans. What can they do besides threaten China? There are still people saying this is a good thing, and they must be mentally ill, beyond hope. Raising a mad dog to protect your house really is the logic of a patriotraitor [slang for a traitor who pretends to be a patriot].”

[…] Even Hu Xijin, editor of China’s party-line, state-run news organization the Global Times, remarked on Weibo, “North Korea just experienced a ‘man-made earthquake,’ which is likely a nuclear test. North Korea is headed down the wrong path. Its people will pay the price for the country’s mistakes. The legitimacy of North Korean rule should be reconsidered.”

Siegfried S. Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently gave a detailed guide to what to expect from a North Korean nuclear test at Foreign Policy, based in part on his own observations from past visits to North Korean nuclear facilities. At The New York Times last month, David E. Sanger and William J. Broad discussed what the United States and Iran would hope to learn from the test and its aftermath. See more on North Korea and nuclear weapons via CDT.

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“China maintains that the Security Council’s reaction should be prudent and moderate, and that it should work for the peace and stability of the (Korean) Peninsula and avoid the progressive escalation of tensions,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily press briefing on Monday.

Hong said China has repeatedly expressed its position on the satellite launches, stressing regret over the issue. “Based on such a stance, China has constructively participated in the recent UNSC negotiations,” Hong said in response to reports that the UNSC is likely to pass a resolution on North Korea’s satellite launch.

“China and the US have many differences in principles over dealing with the satellite launch. That’s why the UN negotiations have lasted for more than a month,” said Shi Yuanhua, a researcher on Korean studies at the Shanghai-based Fudan University.

The US wanted to impose new sanctions against North Korea, while China wants to issue a statement to expand the existing UN sanctions, Reuters said.

While Chinese state media is calling for the UNSC to be prudent, diplomats at the UN say China and the US have reach a deal that would tighten sanctions on North Korea. The Voice of America reports:

The diplomats say the U.S. circulated a draft resolution to the 15-member U.N. Security Council. It could vote as early as Tuesday to punish North Korea for the launch.

They say the resolution would condemn the launch and expand existing sanctions. But it is not clear if it would add any new sanctions – a step that China, Pyongyang’s only major ally, has been reluctant to accept.

Washington has been pushing Beijing to accept strong measures following the rocket launch, which was widely condemned as a disguised missile test banned under U.N. Sanctions.

China, which has previously agreed to U.N. sanctions against North Korea, has said it wants the Security Council to take a “cautious” approach that will not further escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Aside from the UNSC resolution, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said China does not support North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Yang made these remarks at a meeting with a delegation sent by South Korea’s President-elect, Park Geun-hye, from Yonhap News Agency:

According to Shim Yoon-joe, a member of the delegation, Yang praised Park’s so-called “Korean Peninsula trust process,” which states that if the North accepts denuclearization, large-scale international economic projects will be pursued in the communist country to help restore inter-Korean relations.

During the meeting, the delegation made clear that South Korea will not tolerate the North’s nuclear ambitions, but that they believe it is very important to build trust through dialogue with the communist nation.

Commenting on Beijing’s relations with Seoul, Yang said that China considers its relations with South Korea “very” important and that he expects bilateral ties to further grow under the new leaders in both countries, according to the delegation.

“I believe South Korea under Park’s leadership will achieve its growth targets of the new era,” Yang was quoted as saying during a meeting with the delegation. “South Korea is very important to China, and our strategic relations will develop into a new stage and take a big leap down the road.”

According to The Guardian, China may block Korean unification. The report was released by US senate Republican staff members that claimed Beijing would assert territorial claims over Pyongyang. This comes amid China’s claims over the South China Sea and Diaoyu islands:

The report was released last month with little fanfare, but North Korea watchers say it gives voice to an increasingly popular but still-sensitive sentiment: that China will ultimately try to prevent the South from absorbing the North, the long-assumed post-collapse scenario.

China might act with similar aggression in North Korea, the report argues, to “safeguard its own commercial assets, and to assert its right to preserve the northern part of the peninsula within China’s sphere of influence”.

The report was written primarily by Keith Luse, an east Asia specialist who worked as an aide for the recently defeated Republican senator Dick Lugar, who had been a member of the Senate committee on foreign relations with a long-standing interest in North Korea. The minority staff report, Luse said in an email, was written to inform committee members – including John Kerry, nominated by Barack Obama as the next secretary of state – “to not expect an East-West Germany repeat situation” regarding unification between the Koreas.

“Anybody who is a serious analyst can’t discount this as a plausible scenario,” said Victor Cha, the Korea chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, referring to the general argument of the report.

From a US perspective, Cha said, the greatest concern is how poorly prepared other countries are to deal with – and co-operate during – a crisis in North Korea. Beijing has no interest in planning with Washington and Seoul, thinking such talks too sensitive. And Seoul worries that such talks would cause tensions with Beijing to spike.

Read more about China’s relations with North Korea, via CDT.

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China’s more assertive foreign policy over the last two years has played a key role in getting two arch-conservatives — Japan’s Shinzo Abe and South Korea’s Park Geun-hye — elected to lead their respective countries. Some Chinese observers believe that Abe and Park will be forced by China’s inexorable rise to come to terms with their giant neighbor. Don’t count on it. To much of its region, China’s behavior as it is coming of age as a modern superpower is eerily reminiscent of its past policy as a regional hegemon.

For a very long time, imperial China dominated its wider region. The Chinese imperial court considered itself the indispensable center of a regional order in which China had the right and the duty to set international norms and standards, and to intervene if these were broken. It was an ideological system in which Chinese principles had to be the starting point for all things.

[…] China needs to learn from its past that a good foreign policy must be more than only seeking what is best for one’s country to the detriment of others. It is rather to seek to create a region, and eventually a world, where as many as possible believe that China’s rise can also be to their own advantage.

The Council on Foreign Relations’ Scott A. Snyder, on the other hand, suggests that Park’s election might actually offer an opportunity for a fresh start in Sino-South Korean relations. At Bloomberg last October, Pankaj Mishra examined the argument that neighboring countries’ historical experience has left them well equipped to deal with a resurgent China.

At Foreign Policy, meanwhile, Stephen M. Walt summarizes his arguments from a recent Harvard-Peking University joint conference on Sino-U.S. relations, arguing that both China and the United States should exercise restraint in the pursuit of their respective strategic goals.

[…] If Chinese leaders are consistently smart, judicious, farsighted, clear-eyed, and wise, and if their American counterparts consistently exhibit similar qualities, then the two governments may be able to manage their future relations without serious trouble. But the history of both countries suggests that there is very little chance that these idyllic circumstances will prevail every year for the next several decades. Sooner or later, we are bound to get a cadre of foolish, impetuous, or incompetent leaders in one capital or the other, or maybe even both at the same time. If “wise leadership” is the prerequisite for managing Sino-American rivalry over the long haul, in short, history suggests one ought to worry. A lot.

The bottom line is that Washington and Beijing have an obvious interest in taking steps now that might make their relationship easier to manage in the future. In particular, establishing rules of the road for naval activity (similar to the earlier Incidents at Sea agreement) might reduce the danger of an unintended clash on the high seas. Reaching an understanding on the use of unmanned drones or cyberattacks would help too. Military-to-military contacts and other forms of elite exchange would be a good idea as well, so that elites in both societies know the people with whom they are dealing personally and are less likely to misread or misinterpret what they may do while in official positions. None of these steps makes rivalry disappear, but together they could help keep it from boiling over.

And that just might be the greatest contribution that these two states could make to international peace and security over the next 25 years.

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A new report says North Korea’s trade with China accounted for more than 70 percent of its total commerce last year, as the isolated nation deepens its reliance on its only major ally.

South Korea’s national statistics office said Thursday that Pyongyang’s bilateral trade with Beijing totaled over $5.6 billion in 2011. That is an increase of over 60 percent from the previous year.

Seoul says it is the first time that North Korea’s trade with China has topped 70 percent of its global commerce since it began tracking trade figures in 2000.

Meanwhile, the economic gap between South Korea and North Korea continues to be large. The report found South Korea’s gross national income per capita ($1239) was nearly 19 times that of the North in 2011.

According to the Los Angeles Times, analysts predict 2012 will be another year of trade expansion:

The dramatic increase reflects a conscious decision by Beijing in 2011 to prop up its failing ally. Shortly before his death a year ago, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made three trips to China to secure support for rebuilding his ruling Workers’ Party, the equivalent of the Communist Party in China. The Chinese also have been keen to prop up Kim’s 29-year-old son and successor, Kim Jong Un.

“This is just the beginning of further big increases in Sino-North Korea trade,” explained John Park, an expert in China-Korean relations at MIT University. “The primary goal of the Communist Party of China is to more effective manage what is referred to as the North Korean instability variable.”

Park said that North Korean state trading companies are working in China, which enables the regime to generate new sources of revenue for its own ruling elite.

With Chinese help, the North Korean economy grew for the first time in three years, albeit a modest 0.83%. In the last year, Pyongyang has undergone its first significant facelift in decades, adding modern apartment blocks, a new airport terminal, stores and restaurants and a dolphinarium to the North Korean capital.

As trade increases, North Korea’s dependence on China also grows. The South China Morning post reports Beijing’s new politiburo may deal more firmly with Pyongyang:

Rising officials who hail from the northeastern provinces of Liaoning , Jilin and Heilongjiang understand the importance of perseverance to advance China’s agenda of North Korean economic reform. These officials, represented by Zhang Dejiang and Li Keqiang , now on the Politburo Standing Committee, and Sun Zhengcai in the larger Politburo, spent their formative years in close proximity to North Korea, and benefited from their time in local governments with long-term cross-border interactions with North Korean counterparts. They appreciate that patience and constant pressure are key to promoting reform in Pyongyang. This new generation of leaders is ostensibly better informed on North Korean issues and this fact may lead to some policy nuance – if not policy changes – from China.

Although the new leadership has made vague statements on North Korea (even after Pyongyang’s latest, controversial satellite launch), Chinese academics close to the matter are a useful gauge of the temperature in Beijing policy circles. These academics include Zhang Liangui of the Central Party School, Zhu Feng of Peking University, and Lu Chao of the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, among others. These Chinese experts who are allowed and encouraged to comment about North Korea in mainland news media have not been entirely favourable. Zhang Liangui publicly raised questions about reconsidering China’s policy towards Pyongyang just before North Korea’s missile launch in April. Even more telling, Zhang, another Kim Il-sung University alumnus, conducted this public debate in English.

Xi Jinping’s public comments suggest that the military elements of the alliance will remain strong, but within limits. China will reluctantly tolerate space rockets even though these launches enrage regional rivals, and will likely tolerate small-arms and weapons development within limits; it’s in China’s interest to keep the Korean People’s Army on its feet.

Although trade with North Korea has increased, China’s trade with South Korea has declined, from The Washington Post:

While Pyongyang’s economic exchange with Beijing has been on the rise since 2009, its trade with Seoul, North Korea’s second-biggest trade partner after China, has declined. About 20 percent of North Korea’s overall trade was with the South in 2011.

The national statistics office releases an annual report on North Korea’s economy, energy, trade, population and natural resources based on figures from various agencies at home and abroad. It releases the previous year’s data at the end of the following year. The figures for 2012 will become available toward the end of 2013.

North Korea’s trade data was gathered from official statistics figures in overseas countries through KOTRA, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, the office said.

The office said North Korea’s population is estimated at 24.3 million as of 2011, about half of South Korea’s 49.8 million. Its economy expanded 0.8 percent in 2011 over a year earlier, while South Korea’s economy grew 3.6 percent.

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The episode comes as China’s fishing boats increasingly find themselves embroiled in both cross-border and commercial disputes. Chinese ships fish in both international waters and under bilateral fisheries agreement in the waters of other nations. They work for largely private companies or for themselves, and aren’t generally directed by Beijing.

However, in Asian waters, fishing boats have become a proxy for China’s sovereign reach in largely territorial spats. In cases farther afield, its fishing boats have been entangled in accusations of overfishing and harming local economies.

[…] China’s hunger is growing at a time when around 87% of global fisheries are seen to be at full exploitation, overexploited, or depleted, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. China like other nations has signed international agreements that allow it to fish in global waters, and some fishing experts have praised Beijing for beefing up its statistics on fishing in some areas and for raising more fish in domestic farms.

Still, a European Commission report this year said China reported just 368,000 tons of its 2010-2011 catch from the high seas compared with an estimated actual haul of 4.6 million tons.

The height of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute in the autumn saw forays into the islands’ waters by fishing boats from Hong Kong and Taiwan, while China dispatched its own fishery monitoring vessels. Reports suggested that a thousand-strong armada of Chinese fishing boats would also converge on the islands, but this ultimately failed to materialise.

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200 computer screens, stationed one foot apart, flicker through smoky air and fluorescent lighting. Some have as many as four males huddled around with their arms hanging on each other, mostly shirtless. It’s 11pm on Thursday, and even though discounted night hours haven’t started, the Internet cafe is near capacity. Occasional bursts of anger or joy from gamers sound out above the low chatter.

Lao Bing takes a sip of beer and pulls out a cigarette. His shirtless body is frozen in a perpetual slump, his chest hanging over the keyboard. Minuscule movements can be detected in his wrist as he moves the mouse over a rubber pad displaying an ad for affordable abortion services at a nearby hospital.

He types hurriedly into a keyboard crusted with crumbs and dirt. “Damn not working.” He tries again. “Down also.”

[…] The foreigner’s image of China often includes Communist Party officials using censorship tools to prevent citizens from accessing and spreading political messages. We don’t think of people like Lao Bing, chilling in a room with hundreds of males looking at porn.

This week, the Associated Press’ Hyung-jin Kim focused on the other side of the pornography ban equation in South Korea, where one of 800 volunteers who identify offending sites compared his work with “shovelling snow in a blizzard”.

For more from Tricia Wang via CDT, see ‘Sleeping in Internet Cafés: The Next 300 Million Internet Users‘, and her accounts of fieldwork conducted among migrant workers in Chinese cities.

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8 September 2006, 16:46, Beijing Municipal Information Office

I. Reprinting instructions concerning the 5th anniversary of 9/11

This year is the 5th anniversary of the “9/11″ terror attacks suffered by the United States, the U.S. will organize a number of remembrance activities. All websites are required to pay attention: to report related remembrance activities, only reprint People’s Daily Net and Xinhua Net copy; do not make special subjects; timely block and delete acclaims for terror attacks and other harmful discussions; it is strictly prohibited that misleading and inciting discussions that link terrorism with the Islamic religion emerge online.

II. Notice concerning strengthening online propaganda work on building Socialism and a harmonious society

The Politburo of the CCP Central Committee has decided to convene the 6th Plenary Meeting of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, in October of this year, the main theme of the 6th Plenum is researching the question of building Socialism and a harmonious society. In order to create a good online public opinion atmosphere for the convention of the 6th Plenum, and stimulate the construction of a harmonious society, hereby, the following requirements for online propaganda work are notified:

(1) Guiding ideology

Building Socialism and a harmonious society are the major strategic tasks put forward by the Communist Party starting from the total arrangement of the Socialist undertaking with Chinese characteristics and the overall picture of completely constructing a relatively well-off society. Online public propaganda and reporting must earnestly implement the important principles, policies and deployments made by the Party Center in the area of building a harmonious society, give prominence to propagating the new progress, new results and new experiences up and down the entire country in the area of building a harmonious society, and new achievements obtained in economic, political, cultural, and social construction, and other aspects, in order to create a good online public opinion environment for the convention of the 6th Plenum.

(2) Focus propaganda points

a. Meticulously explain and interpret our Party’s strategies and policies in building Socialism and a harmonious society, the important speeches of Central leading comrades concerning harmonious society construction, the newest achievements of theoretical circles’ research concerning harmonious society construction published by Central focus news and network media, and deeply analyze the major significance of building a harmonious society for our country’s developments.

b. Starting from both the macro-level and the micro-level, give prominence to introducing the new measures, new progress and new achievements of harmonious society construction nationwide and in all localities.

c. Integrated with welcoming National Day, look back on the course of our 57 years of development, give prominence to our Party’s wise decisions in concepts to govern the country and the development path, and its important navigational function.

d. Give prominence propagating our Party’s confronting the problem of influencing the harmony of Chinese society with a positive attitude, correctly dissolving social contradictions, expanding the harmonious factors to the largest extent, and reducing the inharmonious factors to the largest extent.

e. Qianlong Net must strengthen reporting concerning propaganda of Beijing Municipality in the area of harmonious society construction; commercial websites must appropriately expand propaganda strength concerning the harmonious society construction achievements in Beijing.

(3) Work arrangements

a. From 15 September, Qianlong, Sina, Sohu, NetEase, TOM and China Net shall again publish a corresponding special subject on building a harmonious society on the main page of the news website “focus subject” or “hot subject” areas (the original special subject may be used). Before 1 October, it may be placed in a relatively low position in the focus subject section; after 1 October, it is to be put in a high position, on the second or third line; from three days before the 6th Plenum begins until three days after the meeting concludes, it must be placed on the first position of special subjects, and special subject entry points are to be set up on the main page of the website and the news section.

b. Renew special subject content, timely reprint reports and comments of Central and municipal focus media and news websites concerning harmonious society construction.

c. Before and after the 6th Plenum, strengthen propaganda and reports around the process of the meetings; strengthen deep interpretation of the reports and decisions passed at the meeting, and the speeches of General Secretary Hu Jintao.

d. Vigorously excavate news events reflecting the “harmonious society,” and use them to substantiate the special subject.

e. Revolving around harmonious society construction topics, set up constructive discussion topics, and guide netizens to participate in discussion on harmonious society construction.

(4) Work requirements

Propaganda keys must be strictly grasped, persist in giving first place to positive propaganda. News information sources must be standardized, strengthen guidance, supervision and control over online public opinion. All websites cannot exaggerate or play up topics existing in harmonious society construction and are not allowed to engage in online surveys under the guise of harmonious society construction topics, online attacking discussions and harmful information must be timely deleted. If any website has good propaganda suggestions, they must report the propaganda policy and plan to our office for examination and approval in advance. Contact person: Municipal Network Management and Network Propaganda Office, Lin Lingsi, telephone: 85120188, ext. 852; 13164291104, e-mail: linlingsi@vip.163.com

III. Notice concerning doing online propaganda and reporting for the 57th National Day well

1 October of this year is the day of remembrance for the 57th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, in order to even better propagate the glorious course that our country has marched for 57 years, and create a joyous and auspicious holiday atmosphere, hereby, the following is notified concerning online propaganda and reporting work for the 57th National Day:

(1) Guiding ideology

Forcefully propagate the increase in our country’s comprehensive national strength since the founding of the nation and especially since reform and opening up, the social development progress, the improvement in people’s living standards and the rise in international position; forcefully propagate the prominent achievements obtained by our country in political, economic, cultural and social construction and other areas; forcefully propagate that the correct leadership of the Chinese Communist Party is an important guarantee for our country to become strong and prosperous; forcefully propagate the new progress and new achievements of the people of all ethnicities in the entire country of establishing and implementing the scientific development view, completely constructing a relatively well-off society, building a Socialist harmonious society, and constructing a new Socialist countryside in these new times, to create a good holiday atmosphere for the 57th National day.

(2) Propaganda focus points

a. Forcefully propagate the huge achievements of our country since founding the nation and especially since reform and opening up in the aspects of political, economic, cultural, and social construction, prominently report the achievements gained in our country’s economic construction in the last half-year.

b. Vigorously report the celebration activities organized in all localities in the entire country around the 57th National Day, all sectors and all industries’ actual activities to present gifts for the 57th glorious anniversary of the motherland, to create a united, warm, and joyous holiday atmosphere.

c. Grasp the key theme of propaganda and reporting on the Golden Week travel well, guide netizens to have a healthy, happy and safe National Day vacation, put an end to the emergence of propaganda and reports that propagate luxury and waste, and environmental destruction.

d. Integrate Mid-Autumn Festival, and ensure propaganda and reports that gives high regard to China’s traditional holidays and carries forward the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation.

e. Qianlong Net will strengthen propaganda and reporting over corresponding activities to celebrate the 57th National Day in Beijing City and on economic and social construction achievements, and sets up a special section; commercial websites must appropriately expand propaganda strength concerning activities related to the 57th National Day in Beijing City.

(3) Work arrangements

a. All Qianlong, Sina, Sohu, Netease, TOM, and China Net must roll out a “Celebrate the 57th Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s Republic of China” (the name may be somewhat changed) in the special subject section of the news centre, starting from 25 September, and maintain it until 15 October.

b. This special subject production must fully give rein to the initiative and creativity of all websites, all websites, apart from having to transmit National Day speeches from Central leaders and Central organizations’ important National Day activities, may set up National Day propaganda and reporting plans by themselves, but relevant plans must be reported to the Network Management Office Network Propaganda Office for examination and approval before 20 September. Contact person: Network Management Office Network Propaganda Office, Lin Lingsi, telephone: 85120188, ext. 852; 13164291104, e-mail: linlingsi@vip.163.com

11 September 2006, 9:51, Beijing Municipal Information Office

All businesses: Please make the title “Beijing Network Media Zunyi Declaration” into the special subject entry point for the “Glory of the Zunyi Conference”, and put the entire text of the Qianlong Net information “Qianlong Net and other Beijing Media Issue the ‘Beijing Network Media Zunyi Declaration’” in the header of the special subject (http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/09/11/183@3412457.htm), at the same time, issue the title “Beijing Network Media Zunyi Declaration” on the main page of websites. All specialist websites: please reprint the “Qianlong Net and other Beijing Media Issue the ‘Beijing Network Media Zunyi Declaration’” on the main page of websites and the header of the first page of the news centers or the first page of forums (http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/09/11/183@3412457.htm).

11 September 2006, 15:12, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Yang Le

Everyone, now, the special subject “ideological and moral education of the youth” is to go online, and put up from today until the 17th, put it in the second line of the main page of websites and the second line of the important news section of the news centre, juxtapose it with the special subjects on running the web in a civilized manner and the Long March.

12 September 2006, 15:10, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

All websites, please search for and delete the text “Doctoral Students Uncover and Report Scandal in the Chongqing University Economics and Management Faculty” from forums and blogs. The said post states: “I am Li Qiongfang, a research student of Chongqing University President Zhang, I am now in the third year of my doctorate, at present, we live in the dark Chongqing University, pass our days in extreme difficulty, look forward to all walks of society paying attention to our fate, and paying attention to the widely existing problems in Chongqing University…” Chongqing University has issued a statement concerning this matter that states: Chongqing University states that in the past few days, there were domestic websites who published a post that so-called “Doctoral Students Uncover and Report Scandal in the Chongqing University Economics and Management Faculty,” and many echoing posts have emerged. Against this, Chongqing University states the following: (1) After checking and verification, Chongqing University has never had a doctoral student called Li Qiongfang; (2) The phenomena listed in these posts are pure fabrications, and maliciously defame Chongqing University and corresponding lecturers; (3) Our school’s doctoral student recruitment and training has strict management structures and financial structures, and the phenomena of bribe-taking, embezzlement of student allowances, wilful delay of student training segments and graduation alluded to in the posts have never taken place; (4) In order to guarantee the training quality of doctoral students, the provisions of the school’s “Chongqing University Graduate Student Management Regulations ‘Trial,’” the “Chongqing University Regulations on Graduate Student Applications for Master and Doctoral Degrees and Publishing of Academic Dissertations (Trial Draft)” and document CQU No. (2005)40 have been strictly implemented in the Economics and Management Faculty’s training of doctoral students; (5) The school has reported this case to the public security organs, the public security organs have accepted it. The school will continue to adopt legal methods to clarify the facts and safeguard the reputation of the school and the rights and interests of lecturers and staff. Chongqing University President’s Office, 30 August 2006

12 September 2006, 15:12, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

All websites: Please immediately link to the Dayu Net special subject “Large Campaign for Online Donations – Themed Disaster Relief Activities to Help the Chongqing Disaster Areas to Cross the Crisis” in the special subject column of the website’s news center, and leave it there for six months.

12 September 2006, 15:12, network Management Office, Duty Manager

(1) Please immediately delete the article  “Prestige of Japanese Prime Ministerial Candidate Under Attack Because of Buying Spirits in China.”

(2) Please push the article ” 164 Million Embezzled in Beijing Railway Bureau” to the back stage.

(3) All websites are requested to pay attention: In the time before and after the day of remembrance of the Mukden Incident, please do not open trackers on reports involving Japan. Forums are also not to guide discussions, do not make reports involving Japan into main posts.

18 September 2006, 15:13, Beijing Municipal Information Office

Today, the post of the so-called “Provisional Rules on Implementing Policies Concerning Military Cadres Transferred to Enterprises” has been issued on some forums and websites, these so-called “rules” are pure rumors. Whenever they emerge, they must be immediately deleted, websites may also not upload this information.

20 September 2006, 9:00, Chai Yue

(1) Please immediately close all trackers concerning reports on the coup d’état in Thailand.

(2) The auction house Sotheby’s has claimed that it will organize an auction having articles from China’s Cultural Revolution and “June 4th” in the near future. Please do not report this auction. It must also be prevented that relevant information is spread on interactive segments.

(3) Please delete the article “South Korea Scrambles for the Su Reef in the East China Sea – Chinese Side Strengthens Maritime Patrols and Management.”

2006年9月北京网管办发出的禁令（一）

2006年9月8日16时46分 北京市新闻办

一：关于911五周年的转载提示

今年是美国遭受“911”恐怖袭击五周年，美国会举行一些纪念活动。各网请注意：相关纪念活动的报道，只转载新华网、人民网的稿件；不做专题；及时封堵、删除为恐怖袭击喝彩等有害言论；严禁网上出现将恐怖主义与伊斯兰教挂钩等误导性、煽动性言论。

二：关于加强构建社会主义和谐社会网上宣传工作的通知

中共中央政治局决定于今年10月在北京召开中国共产党第十六届中央委员会第六次会议，六中全会的主要议题是研究构建社会主义和谐社会问题。为给六中 全会召开营造良好的网上舆论氛围，促进和谐社会建设，现提出网上宣传工作要求通知如下：一、 指导思想构建社会主义和谐社会是中国共产党从中国特色社会主义事业的总体布局和全面建设小康社会的全局出发提出的重大战略任务。网上宣传报道要认真贯彻落 实党中央在构建和谐社会方面作出的重要方针、决策和部署，突出宣传全国上下在和谐社会建设方面的新进展、新成果和新经验，经济、政治、文化和社会建设等方 面取得的新成就，为六中全会召开营造良好的网上舆论环境。二、 宣传重点 1. 详细介绍、解读我党在构建社会主义和谐社会方面的战略决策，中央领导同志关于和谐社会建设的重要讲话，中央重点新闻和网络媒体刊载的理论界关于和谐社会建 设研究的最新成果，深入分析构建和谐社会对我国发展的重大意义。 2. 从宏观和微观两方面入手，突出介绍全国和各地在和谐社会建设方面的新举措、新进展、新成就。 3. 结合迎接国庆，回顾我国57年发展历程，突出我党在治国理念和发展道路上的明智抉择和重要导航作用。 4. 突出宣传我党以积极态度面对影响中国社会和谐的问题，正确化解社会矛盾，最大限度地增加和谐因素，最大限度地减少不和谐因素。 5．千龙网要加强对北京市在和谐社会建设方面的宣传报道；商业网站要适当加大对北京市和谐社会建设成果的宣传力度。三、工作安排 1.从9月15日起，千龙网、新浪网、搜狐网、网易网、TOM网、中华网应在新闻中心首页“焦点专题”或“热点专题”区重新推出构建和谐社会相关专题（可 启用原有专题）。10月1日前，可放在焦点专题较低位置；10月1日以后，将位置调高，放在第二、三位置上；六中全会开始前三天至会议结束后三天，放在专 题第一位置，并在网站首页和新闻中心首页设专题入口。 2.更新专题内容，及时转载中央和市属重点媒体和新闻网站关于和谐社会建设的报道和评论。 3.六中全会前后，围绕会议进程强化宣传报道；加强对会议所通过报告、决议和胡锦涛总书记讲话的深度解读。 4.积极发掘体现“社会和谐”的新闻事件，将其充实到专题中。 5．围绕和谐社会建设话题，开设建设性讨论话题，引导网民参与和谐社会建设的讨论。四．工作要求必须严格把握宣传基调，坚持正面宣传为主。要规范新闻信息 稿源，加强网上舆论引导和监控。各网不能夸大、炒作和谐社会建设中存在的话题，不可以借助和谐社会建设话题搞网上调查，对网上攻击性言论和有害信息要及时 予以删除。各网站如有好的宣传建议，须将宣传策划方案提前报送我办审批。 联系人：市网管办网宣处 林灵思 电话：85120188转852； 13164291104 E-mail: linlingsi@vip.163.com

三：关于做好国庆57周年网上宣传报道的通知

今年10月1日是中华人民共和国成立57周年纪念日，为更好宣传我国57年来走过的光辉历程，营造喜庆祥和的节日氛围，现对有关国庆57周年网上宣 传报道工作通知如下：一、指导思想大力宣传建国以来、特别是改革开放以来我国综合国力的增强、社会的发展进步、人民生活水平的改善和国际地位的提高；大力 我国在政治、经济、文化和社会建设等方面取得的突出成就；大力宣传中国共产党的正确领导是国家强盛的重要保证；大力宣传新时期全国各族人民树立和落实科学 发展观、全面建设小康社会、构建社会主义和谐社会、社会主义新农村建设的新进展、新成就，为庆祝国庆57周年营造良好的节日氛围。二、 宣传重点 1. 大力宣传我国建国以来尤其是改革开放以来，在政治、经济、文化和社会建设方面取得的巨大成就，突出报道我国上半年经济建设所取得的成果。 2. 积极报道全国各地围绕国庆57周年举办的庆祝活动，各行各业为祖国57岁华诞献礼的实际行动，营造团结、热烈、喜庆的节日氛围。 3. 把握好黄金周旅游宣传报道基调，引导网民过一个健康、快乐、安全的国庆假期，杜绝出现宣传奢侈浪费、破坏环境的宣传报道。 4. 结合中秋节，做好对重视中国传统节日、弘扬中华民族优秀文化传统的宣传报道。 5．千龙网要加强对北京市庆祝国庆57周年有关活动和经济社会建设成就的宣传报道，并设立专区；商业网站要适当加大对北京市国庆57周年有关活动的宣传力 度。三．工作安排 1.千龙、新浪、搜狐、网易、TOM、中华各网站要从 9月25起在新闻中心专题区推出“庆祝中华人民共和国成立57周年”专题（名称可有所变化），时间持续到10月15日。 2.本次专题制作充分发挥各网站的主动性和创造性，各网站除必须转发中央领导国庆讲话和中央组织的重要国庆活动外，可自行设计国庆宣传报道方案，但有关方 案需在9月20日前报网管办网宣处审核批准。联系人：市网管办网宣处 林灵思 电话：85120188转852； 13164291104 E-mail: linlingsi@vip.163.com
2006年9月11日09时51分 北京市新闻办

各门户：请以“北京网络媒体遵义宣言”的标题作为“遵义会议放光芒”的专题入口，并在专题头条位置全文转载千龙网消息《千龙网等北京网媒发表<北京网络媒体遵义宣言>》（http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/09/11/183@3412457.htm），同时在网站首页出“北京网络媒体遵义宣言”的标题。各专业网站：请在网站首页、新闻中心首页或论坛首页的头条位置转载《千龙网等北京网媒发表<北京网络媒体遵义宣言>》（http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/09/11/183@3412457.htm）
2006年9月11日15时12分 北京市新闻办杨乐

各位，现在将“未成年人思想道德教育”专题上线，从今天挂到17日，放在网站首页2条和新闻中心要闻区2条位置，与文明办网，长征专题并列。
2006年9月12日15时10分 网管办值班

各网：请在论坛、博客中查找并删除《读博士生揭报重庆大学经管院黑幕》一文。该帖文称：“我是重庆大学张校长的研究生李琼方，现在是博士三年级，目 前我们生活在黑暗的重庆大学，日子过的非常艰难，期待社会各界关注我们的命运，也关注中国大学普遍存在的问题……” 重庆大学已经就此事发表示声明：重庆大学声明近日，国内有网站登出所谓《重庆大学经管学院博士招生的黑幕》的帖子，并出现了相关的附和帖子。对此，重庆大 学严正声明如下：一、经查实，重庆大学从未有过叫李琼方的博士生。二、这些帖子所罗列现象纯属无中生有，是对重庆大学及相关教师的恶意中伤。三、我校博士 生招生和培养有严格的管理制度、财经制度，从未出现过帖子中所称的受贿、克扣学生津贴、有意拖延学生培养环节和毕业时间的现象。四、为了确保研究生的培养 质量，经管学院培养博士生是严格执行学校《重庆大学研究生管理规定（试行）》、《重庆大学研究生申请硕士、博士学位发表学术论文的规定（试行稿）》、重大 校（2005）40号文的规定。 五、学校就此事已向公安机关报案，公安机关已受理。学校将继续采取法律手段，澄清事实，维护学校声誉和教职工权益。重庆大学校长办公室 2006年8月30日
2006年9月12日15时12分 网管办值班

各网：请马上在本网站新闻中心的专题栏目中链接大渝网“网上募捐大行动??帮助重庆灾区共渡难关主题赈灾活动”专题，并保留半个月。
2006年9月12日15时12分 网管办值班

1.请马上删除《日首相候选人因在华买春事件声誉受打击》一稿。

2.请把《北京铁路局挪用1.64亿》这一条压到后台。

3.各网请注意：在九一八纪念日前后一段时间，对于涉日的报道请不要开跟帖。论坛也不引导讨论，不以涉日报道为主帖贴发。
2006年9月18日15时13分 北京市新闻办

近日，一些论坛网站贴发所谓“企业军转干部落实政策暂行办法（讨论稿）”帖文，此所谓《办法》纯属谣传。一旦发现要立即删除，网站也不得上载这一信息。
2006年9月20日09时00分 柴玥

一：请立即关闭所有关于泰国政变报道的跟帖

二：索士比拍卖行声称将于近期举行一场有中国文革和“六四”物品的拍卖会。关于此场拍卖会，请不要报道。互动环节也要防止有关消息流传。

三：请删除《韩国争抢中国东海苏岩礁 中方加强海洋巡视管理》一稿。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 6, 2012 (here).

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23 July 2006, 14:30, Network Management Office, Chen Hua

“The ‘Problem Loan’ of 3.2 Billion Eliminates Zhang Rongkun” in the 21st Century Business Herald is not to be reprinted without exception, or to be discussed in forums. It cannot be put on blogs. Where it is discovered, delete it immediately. Make “Zhang Rongkun” into a keyword on blog networks. No corresponding content may appear on forums, columns and individual blogs.

25 July 2006, 10:00, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

Please direct all search results for “Hu Haiqing” and “Lang Xianping” towards news websites, clean up all information about these two persons, including forums and blogs, which must be cleaned op, only maintain the content of news websites.

26 July 2006, 10:11, Chen Hua

(1) Concerning the issue of the North Korea nuclear crisis, forums are no longer to actively set up discussion topics; (2) Discussions concerning the household situation of Kim Jong-il or against South Korea may not be played up, lower the temperature on forums; (3) Please remove the First Financial Daily report concerning reform of undertaking work units from the front page of news and the front page of websites; (4) It is strictly prohibited to gather news or translate foreign news dispatches about the attack on United Nations observers, manage posts and forums well; (5) do not play up the incident of the Italian woman who was murdered in Chaoyang Park.

26 July 2006, 14:06

Propaganda and reporting requirements for activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake.

I. Give prominence to propaganda and reporting focus points. Propagate the magnificent achievements of the recovery and rebuilding in Tangshan in the 30 years since the earthquake and changes in economic and social development, propagate the “quake-proof spirit” of “being selfless in official duty, going through tough times together, keeping fighting in spite of setbacks and advancing bravely.”

II. Report important events online well. On 27 and 28 July, Xinhua and the People’s Daily will respectively transmit news reports reflecting the huge developments and changes in Tangshan’s economy and society in the 30 years since the Tangshan earthquake and especially since the 16th Party Congress; on 28 July, Xinhua will transmit copy concerning a large remembrance conference for the 30th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government; on 28 July, China National Radio and China Central Television will respectively produce and broadcast special subject programs, reflecting the huge economic and social developments and changes in the 30 years since the Tangshan earthquake and especially since the 16th Party Congress; at the end of July, main Central news work units will issue information about Hebei provincial leaders meeting with and consoling orphans who survived the Tangshan earthquake and people who were disabled. All websites must timely and fully report the important above activities well, and must timely transmit information, comment and remembrance articles from the People’s Daily, Xinhua and other main central news work units.

III. Strengthen online public opinion guidance and management. For all websites’ corresponding copy, only copy from main central news work units and main Hebei provincial news work units may be used, important copy must be checked and inspected by the responsible person himself, it is strictly prohibited to translate and issue foreign media copy, instructions must be requested for issues of uncertainty. A good atmosphere must be created for remembrance activities, do not discuss and do not play up predictions of the Tangshan earthquake in that year, the level of the earthquake, the refusal to accept foreign aid, the fact that casualty numbers have not been officially published, etc., prevent that there are people who slander the image of the Party and there government under the guise of so-called “rethinking” “uncovering,” etc. Management over forums, blogs, news trackers and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely block and delete rumors, attacks, distortions and all other kinds of harmful information.

26 July 2006, 17:31, Network Management Office

Concerning the matter of the closure of Century China, is not to be reprinted or discussed without exception.

26 July 2006, 21:04, Network Management Office

Everyone: Concerning the matter of Chinese peacekeeping personnel being killed in Israeli air raids, pay attention to grasping the following six points in reporting:

(1) Strictly use standard sources, it is prohibited to self-gather news, do not engage in VIP chats, continuous interviews, etc.

(2) Strictly manage posts, do not point fingers at the Israeli people.

(3) Focus on reporting our leaders’ comforting and caring for the killed personnel and their relatives.

(4) Confirm the spirit of our peacekeepers of devotion to duty in the chaos of war, and brave contributions and sacrifices, as well as the contribution made in preserving peace.

(5) According to the central theme of the talks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, condemn the action of bombing. Pay attention not to point fingers at the Israeli people.

(6) Objectively report the declarations of the United Nations and relevant countries.

27 July 2006, 20:55, Network Management Office, Duty Manager MSN

“The Qinghai-Tibet Railway Infrastructure Operation Situation Is Good, There Are A Few Sections Where the Trackbed Subsides”

(1) Do not issue it in the important news section.

(2) Do not issue it on the main page of websites.

(3) Do not open trackers.

(4) No longer send short messages.

(5) Deal with this in a low-key manner.

Please immediately deal with this.

28 July 2006, 16:20, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

“Beijing Puts Forward Design Plan for a Capital of Five Colors – Central Park to Be Built in Wangfujing,” this articles is only an internal discussion paper, and is not the final plan, reports are inaccurate. All websites are requested to immediately delete it.

31 July 2006, 18:51, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

(1) All websites will make “democracy course” and “democracy course – electronic version” into keywords and block it.

(2) Concerning reporting on the periodical elections of district and county people’s congresses, all websites are only to report matters once, do not set up special subjects.

(3) Continue to earnestly block and screen out the article Nine Criticisms of the Communist Party.

31 July 2006, 21:10, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

NetEase Community: Concerning the survey of the ethnic emotions in China in the near future, there are 11 problems in total, please delete it, other websites may not reprint it.

2006年7月北京网管办发出的禁令（三）
2006年7月23日14时30分 新闻办 陈华

《21世纪经济报道》“32亿问题借款张荣坤落马”一律不转载，论坛不讨论。博客也不能放。发现立即删除。在博客网将“张荣坤”设置为关键词。论坛、专栏、个人博客均不得出现相关内容。
2006年7月25日10时00分网管办值班

请把“胡海清”，“郎咸平”搜到的全部结果指向新闻网站，清理关于此二人的全部信息，包括论坛，博客，都要清理，只保留新闻网站的内容
2006年7月26日10时11分 陈华

1、关于朝鲜核危机问题，论坛不再主动设置讨论话题；2、关于金正日家事、反韩言论不要炒作，论坛降温3、第一财经日报关于事业单位改革的报道请撤 出新闻首页和网站首页4、联合国观察员遇袭事件，严禁自采、编译外电，管好跟贴和论坛5、意大利女子朝阳公园被害事件，不要炒作
2006年7月26日14时06分

唐山地震30周年纪念活动网上宣传报道要求：

一、突出宣传报道重点。宣传唐山地震30年来唐山市恢复重建的巨大成就和经济社会发展变化，宣传”公而忘私、患难与共、百折不挠、勇往直前”的”抗震精神”。

二、做好重要活动网上报道。7月27日和28日，新华社和人民日报将先后播发反映唐山地震30年来特别是十六大以来唐山经济社会巨大发展变化的通 讯；7月28日，新华社将播发河北省委、省政府举行唐山地震30周年纪念大会通稿；7月28日前后，中央电台、中央电视台将分别制作播出专题节目，反映唐 山地震30年来特别是十六大以来经济社会巨大发展变化；7月底，中央主要新闻单位将刊播河北省领导走访慰问唐山地震中幸存孤儿和伤残人员的消息。各网站要 及时、充分地报道好上述重要活动，要及时转发人民日报、新华社等中央主要新闻单位刊发的消息、评论和纪念文章。

三、加强网上舆论引导和管理。各网站相关稿件只转发中央主要新闻单位和河北省主要新闻单位稿件，重要稿件要由负责人亲自把关审发，严禁编译转发境外 媒体稿件，拿不准的问题要及时请示。要为纪念活动营造良好氛围，对当年唐山地震预报、地震级别、拒收外援和未正式公布伤亡数字等问题不争论、不炒作，防止 有人借所谓”反思”、”揭秘”之名诋毁党和政府的形象。要加强对论坛、博客和新闻跟帖等互动栏目的管理，及时封堵和删除造谣、攻击、歪曲等各类有害信息。
2006年7月26日17时31分 网管办

关于世纪中国被关闭一事，一律不转载不讨论。
2006年7月26日21时04分 新闻办

各位：对中国维和人员在以色列空袭中遇难一事，在报道中请注意把握以下六点：

1、严格规范稿源，严禁自采，不搞嘉宾聊天和连线访谈等。

2、严格管理跟贴，不得将矛头指向以色列人民。

3、重点报道我领导人对遇难人员和家属的慰问和关怀。

4、肯定我维和军人在战乱中忠于职守、勇于奉献和牺牲的精神，以及为维护和平做出的贡献。

5、按外交部发言人谈话的基调，对轰炸行径予以谴责。注意不要将矛头指向以色列人民。

6、对联合国和有关国家对此事的表态客观报道。
2006年7月27日20时55分 新闻办值班MSN

青藏铁路设备运行情况良好 有个别地段路基下沉”

1、不发要闻区；

2、不发网站首页；

3、不开跟贴；

4、不再发短信；

5、低调处理

请即刻进行处理
2006年7月28日16时20分 网管办值班

“北京提五色之都设计方案 王府井建中央公园”，该稿件只是内部讨论稿，并不是最后方案，报道失实。请各网站立即删除
2006年7月31日18时51分 网管办值班

1、各网将“民主教程”、“民主教程电子版”涉为关键词屏蔽；

2、关于区县人大换届选举的报道，各网只一事一报，不要搞专题；

3、继续认真屏蔽、清查《九评共产党》一文

 

2006年7月31日21时10分 网管办值班

网易社区：关于中国近期民族情绪的调查，共有11个问题，请删除，其他网站不要转载。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 1, 2012 (here).

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9 May 2006, 10:57, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please timely reprint the Xinhua article “Who Heads Online Harm” in the header position of the special subject section for Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization.

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

9 May 2006, 11:05 Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

The Xinhua special subject article Exclusive Issue: Who Heads Online Harm? contains many articles, it suffices for all websites to make one link in the header, and netizens can directly click to the Xinhua webpage. This may reduce the workload of all websites.

9 May 2006, 11:59, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to reprint the article “‘Perceiving China? ‘Korea Can’ Activities to Be Organized in Seoul, in September” in the important news section (http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-05/09/content_4525184.htm). Please acknowledge receipt, thank you

9 May 2006, 12:29, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to speedily delete articles and corresponding content on the Central Discipline Inspection Committee having made regulations on the time limits for shuanggui. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

10 May 2006, 18:15

Correction of the recent notification: all websites are requested to reprint the Beijing Municipal Commercial Internet Online Service Venue Association “Open Letter to the Internet Cafe Managers in the Entire City.”

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you

11 May 2006, 10:50, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to delete the article “Investigating the True Facts of the Murder of the Beijing Forestry Bureau Director” and corresponding links, and it is reiterated that this matter may not be played up. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 14:02, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to reprint the Qianlong Net Information “Beijing Concentratedly Launches Special Campaign to Discipline Internet Cafes” in the header of the special subject section on Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please close trackers concerning the news on the Yangtze bridge in Nanjing. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 15:09, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please close trackers on the CCTV “News Investigation” article “Xi’an Communications University Kaiyuan Group Runs Into Financial Problems – 1,000 Teaching and Administrative Staff Assemble,” push it towards the back stage tomorrow, forums are also not to discuss this matter.

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 18:03, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All sorts of news concerning the demolition of the Nanjing Yangtze bridge may not be reprinted from now on, where they are reprinted, please delete them immediately. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

2006年5月北京网管办发出的禁令（一）

2006年5月9日10时57 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请在“大兴网络文明之风”专题头条位置，及时转发新华网＂网络危害谁为首＂一文．

http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm

收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月9日11时05 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

新华网的专题“独家发布：网络危害谁为首？”http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm

内有多篇文章，各网可在头条位置做一个链接，网民点击后直接进入新华网页面即可。这样可以减小各网的工作量。

2006年5月9日11时59 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网在要闻区内转载《“感知中国?韩国行”活动９月将在韩国首尔举行》一文（http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-05/09/content_4525184.htm）收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月9日12时29 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

关于中纪委对“双规”时限做出规定一稿及相关内容，请各网迅速删除。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月10日18时15 分

更正刚才的通知：请各网转载北京市互联网上网服务营业场所协会《致全市网吧从业者的一封公开信》

http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/178@3162913.htm

收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日10时50 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网删除——《北京林业局长被杀真相调查》一稿及相关链接，并重申不得炒作此事。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日14时02 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网在“大兴网络文明之风”专题头条位置转载千龙网消息《北京市集中开展整治网吧专项行动》（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/2601@3163862.htm）收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日14时23 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请关闭关于南京长江大桥新闻的跟贴。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日15时09 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

央视《新闻调查》“西安交大开元集团遭遇资金问题 千名教职工集会”一文，请关闭跟贴，明天压到后台，论坛也不讨论此事。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日18时03 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

有关炸毁南京长江大桥的各类新闻以后不要转载，还在转载的，请立即删除。收到请回复，谢谢。

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30 November 2005

A notification from Information Office director Chen Hua has been received: The case of “A man issued a threat from the Henan Commercial Daily to detonate explosives on his body, and was shot dead by police,” all websites may not report this without exception, already reported matters must be deleted.

It is prohibited to publish or reprint the book An Exploration of Hu Yaobang’s Thoughts on Reform, published by the Hong Kong Kunpeng Publisher. Already issued content is to be deleted immediately.

25 November 2005

A notification from Information Office director Chen Hua has been received: for online reporting on the pollution in the Songhua River created by the explosion in a Jilin chemical factory and Harbin cutting off the water supply, only use copy from Xinhua and the main provincial media in Heilongjiang, reports on this matter must be simplified and played down. Online, rethinking articles and article on pursuing responsibility may not be reprinted, this sort of reports must, in the end, have the conclusion made by relevant State departments as the norm, unsuitable reporting triggering social instability and dissatisfied emotions on the masses is to be prevented. Management over forums and news tracker must be strengthened, and all sorts of harmful information timely deleted.

22 November 2005

(1) The death of National Investment Corporation Board Chairman Liang Yuncai during a period of shuanggui.

(2) The rallies and disturbances created by personnel of the Shenzhen “Great Wall” and “Golden Masses” companies.

3, The Beijing lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s “rights defense,” etc.

The above incidents may not be reported or reprinted without exception.

16 November 2005

In recent days, there have been reports again about the new “spirit” of the Paris riots: objectively report it, do not censure the French government because of it, and do not link it up to domestic “reality.”

16 November 2005

(1) Recent discussions on the American president’s visit to China, involving his route in China, the judicial assembly, or harming social security and other content may not be touched upon;

(2) Recent activities commemorating Hu Yaobang may not be reported on the main page of websites, it may appear on forums, but only Xinhua Net reports can be reprinted;

(3) If the above content appears on websites, IP addresses and other information are to be absolutely recorded, and reported daily to the Haidian Public Security Office (General Police Office 82519319, 13911837664) and the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Bureau.

11 November 2005

Everyone: where information appears concerning terror attacks that will occur in Beijing are to be immediately deleted; tonight, the Olympic mascots are unveiled, strictly implement earlier requirements, keep post numbers within 200, mainly report positive appraisal, do not let negative public opinion emerge, do not engage in surveys and interview.

11 November 2005

(1) The annual exam will soon take place, pay attention to supervising content such as stealing questions, cheating methods, etc.;

(2) Recently, comments of residents and personnel in some localities on content related to their localities (services, construction, government cervices, basic infrastructure, etc.) have emerged, if you come across local governments or relevant local departments requiring deletion of this content, the counterpart may be required to contact the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Bureau, explain the matter, and the deletion of this content is only to occur after corresponding permission is received from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Bureau. At the same time, pay attention to grasping this sort of content, if you come across content about which there is uncertainty, timely ask for instructions with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Department; (pay attention to judgment on this content).

(3) recently, a number of the American magazine Forbes has published a cover leading article “Attack of the Blogs,” this article extremely acutely attacked the phenomenon of a group of American blogs in which defamation and other criminal phenomena emerged. This article has already given rise to heated arguments in the media, on the internet and among personalities in the legal sphere. At a time where blogging activities spread like wildfire in America and across the globe, this article gave rise to a great disturbance. This matter may spread domestically, and deserves attention. In short, keep the gate of blog content well, avoid blunders, this may be extremely important at present.

10 November 2005

I. Today, in the afternoon, we attended the “Work Conference on Governing Websites Providing Obscene, Sexual and Violent Games” organized by the Beijing Press and Publications Bureau concerning the “Notice concerning Conducting a Limited Time of Rectification of Websites Providing Obscene, Sexual and Violent Gaming Content,” the following spirit is transmitted:

(1) games having clear content inciting ethnic emotions;

(2) gaming having content of hating State leaders;

(3) gaming having content sowing discord among ethnic sentiments;

(4) content of obscene, sexual and violent games;

(5) cases where the above content is disseminated through forums and blogs are focus targets for supervision and management.

10 November 2005

Concerning sexual and violent games not being permitted for publication,, existing searches are deleted, where they emerge in the future, they are to be deleted without exception, the games that have concretely been determined as sexual are: “Idiots Are Criminals,” the “Tail” series, “Lula 3D”, “Game 2 Taboo Trial,” “Love Sister,” “Man-made Girl,” “Stink,” “Posthumous,” “Pretty Girl Yakyuken,” “24 Hour Nurse,” “The Guilt of Seven Generations,” the “Happy Sex Life” series, “3Feel Online,” and “Bloodrayne 2.”

10 November 2005

Yesterday, a notice from the Information Office was received, the matter of “the statue of Qin Hui is removed from exposition” may not be played up. The details of the reason are unknown. For reference only.

10 November 2005

At present, relevant departments’ management over the Internet has further strengthened, from the middle of October, a “rapid supervision and management mechanism” concerning online public opinion has been officially and completely started up. All higher-level instructions concerning network content are also correspondingly concrete. For example, the recent strict prohibition of publishing of “The Rights Defense Incident in the Red Sea Gulf,” “Reports on Japan” as well as the so-called “42 Bank Presidents Who Fled Abroad” and other false news, the requirement that content not conforming to the spirit of the Center must be determinedly deleted and blocked, and putting forward that blogs, forums and websites with “relatively much harmful information,” gravely violating regulations and “that do not hear the call” must be firmly investigated and prosecuted or even closed.

Information Office director Chen Hua notifies: everyone, concerning the report that South Korean capital Seoul officially changes its Chinese name, do not play this up, do not put it in the important news section, do not place it on the front page of websites, close news trackers, forums are not to discuss this.

Our website’s supervision and control is to not have any channel on the front page, and delete forums without exception!

10 November 2005

(1) The Network Supervision Office issues a Notice: Articles concerning the production and sale of monitoring devices, bugging devices, etc., are to be deleted without exception.

(2) Matters concerning the adult game “Guilt of Seven Generations” must be deleted.

10 November 2005

A notice from Chen Hua was received: “How Can A Kept Woman Become Section Director?,” corresponding matters are to be deleted without exception.

Concerning the matter of the White Paper on Chinese Democratic Politics (that will be published tomorrow by the State Council Information Office), no VIP interviews are to be made without exception, do not set up trackers, forums are not to discuss this.

2005年11月北京网管办发出的禁令

2005-11-30

接新闻办陈华通知：“一男子在河南商报扬言引爆身上爆炸物，被警方击毙”一事，各网站一律不得报道，已报道的要删除。

禁止发表转载由香港昆鹏出版社出版的《胡耀邦改革思想初探》一书。对已发布的内容立即删除。
2005-11-25

接新闻办陈华通知：关于吉化厂爆炸造成松花江污染和哈尔滨停水事件的网上报道，只使用新华社和黑龙江省主要媒体的稿件，要简化、淡化此事的报道。网 上不得转载反思和追究责任的文章，此类报道最后要以国家有关部门公布的结论为准，防止由于报道不当引发社会不稳定和群众的不满情绪。要加强对论坛和新闻跟 贴的管理，及时删除各类有害信息。
2005-11-22

1、国投公司董事长梁云才双规期间死亡。

2、深圳“长城”“金众”公司员工聚众闹事。

3、北京律师高智晟“维权”等。

以上事件一律不准报道转载。

2005-11-16

近日又有关于巴黎骚乱的新“精神”：客观报道，勿为此指责法国政府，也不要联系国内“实际”。
2005-11-16

1、近期美国总统访华的涉及到在华线路、司法集合、危害社会安全的言论等内容不要涉及；

2、近期为纪念胡耀邦有相关活动，网站主页不可报道，在论坛里可出现，但只能转载新华网的报道；

3、如在网站上出现以上内容，一定记录IP等信息，每天向海淀公安局（董警官 82519319，13911837664）、北京市公安局网监处报告。

2005-11-11

各位：有关北京将遭恐怖袭击的消息发现即删除；今晚奥运吉祥物发布，严格此前要求，跟贴200以内，正面评价为主，不得出现负面舆论，不作调查和访谈。

2005-11-11

1、一年一度的考研马上到了，注意贩卖考题、作弊方式等内容的监管；

2、最近有地方居民或人员评论本地（服务、建设、市政服务、基础设施等）相关内容出现，如碰到地方政府或地方的相关部门要求删除此内容的，可要求对 方与北京市公安局网监处联系，说明，此类内容的删除必须得到北京市公安局网监处的相关许可后可进行。同时，注意这类内容的把握，碰到拿不准的内容，及时和 北京市公安局网监处请示；（注意此内容的判断）

3、最新一期美国《福布斯》杂志发表封面重头文章《博客的攻击》，这篇文章十分尖锐地批评了美国博客一族中出现的诽谤等犯罪现象。这篇文章已经引起 传媒、互联网以及法律界人士的激烈争论。在美国和全球博客运动如火如荼之际，这篇文章引起轩然大波。此事或将波及国内，值得注意。总之博客网在内容上把好 关，免出纰漏，这在目前可能是至关重要的。
2005-11-10

一、今天下午参加了北京市新闻出版局举办的针对《关于对提供淫秽色情、暴力游戏内容的网站进行限期整改的通知》的《治理提供淫秽色情暴力内容游戏网站工作会》会议，传达以下精神：

1、带有明显煽动民族情绪的内容的游戏内容；

2、带有仇视国家领导人的游戏内容；

3、带有挑拨民族感情的游戏内容；

4、淫秽、色情、暴力游戏的内容；

5、通过论坛、博客传播的以上内容为新形式下的监管重点对象。
2005-11-10

关于色情暴力的游戏不准发表，已有的搜索删除，以后发现的一律删除，现具体已明确为色情暴力的游戏有：《痴汉是犯罪》、《尾行》系列、《露拉 3D》、《游具2禁忌试玩》、《爱姐妹》、《人工少女》、 《臭作》、《遗作》、《美女野球拳》、《护士24点》、《七宗罪》、《性福人生》系列、《The 3Feel Online》、《吸血莱恩2》
2005-11-10

昨接新闻局一通知，“秦桧塑像撤展”一事一律不得炒作。原因详情未知。仅供参考。
2005-11-10

目前有关部门对互联网管理进一步加强，从十月中旬起，对网上舆情的“快速监管机制”已经正式全面启动。上级对网络内容的各项指示也相当具体。如近期 对“红海湾维权事件”“涉日报道”以及所谓“42名行长外逃”假新闻等严禁刊登，要求对不符中央精神的内容要坚决删除封堵，提出对“有害内容较多”和严重 违规和“不听招呼”的博客、论坛和网站要坚决查处甚至予以关闭。

2005-11-10

新闻办陈华通知：各位，关于韩国首都汉城正式更名为“首尔”的报道，不炒作，不放要闻区，不上网站首页，关闭新闻跟帖，论坛不讨论。

我们网站的监控是各频道不上首页,论坛一律删!

2005-11-10

1、网络监察处有通知：关于监听器、窃听器等制作和销售的帖文一律删除。

2、关于成人游戏七宗罪的要删除。

2005-11-10

接陈华通知：“三陪女是怎样当上部长的”，相关的一律删除

有关（明天国新办等将）发布中国民主政治白皮书一事，一律不做嘉宾访谈，不开跟帖，论坛不讨论。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 13, 2012 (here).

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Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.

State Council Information Office: Without exception, use Xinhua wire copy in reporting on Chinese citizen Liu Qiang throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Japanese embassy in South Korea. Downplay the incident. Do not publish the news above the fold. (November 2, 2012)

国新办：关于我国公民刘强向日本驻韩使馆投燃烧瓶一事，一律采用新华社通稿并淡化处理，不上头版导读。

The Japanese government has asked South Korea to extradite Liu, who also threw an incendiary device at the Yasakuni Shrine last December [zh].

Central Propaganda Department: All media and websites are prohibited from investigating, reporting and commenting on residents obstructing a construction site and blocking the Shenhai Expressway in Xiyang Village, Huahu Town, Huilai County, Jieyang District. (November 2, 2012)

中宣部：揭阳惠来县华湖镇溪阳村村民阻挠一工地施工并堵塞深汕高速公路，各媒体及网站不采访报道评论。

Huilai County is located in Guangdong Province.

State Council Information Office: Without exception, use Xinhua copy in reporting on our fourth-generation fighter jets (J-21 and J-31), and downplay the news. Do not produce in-house reports or commentary. Do not quote from foreign sources or from websites. (November 2, 2012)

国新办：对我第四代战机（歼21、歼31）的报道，一律采用新华社稿并淡化处理，不自行报道评论，不转引境外和网上信息。

State Council Information Office: All media and websites are forbidden from reporting on, commenting on or publishing American Kurt Campbell’s statement on “managing” the Diaoyu Island dispute. (November 3, 2012)

国新办：对美国坎贝尔“管控”钓鱼岛争端的言论，各媒体及网站不报不评不转。

On November 2, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell called on Japan and China to ease the tension over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands which flared in September, saying, “There is recognition that certain problems are so challenging that they can only be managed. They may not be able to be solved.”

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 Lured by cheap iron ore and low wages, the Xiyang Group, one of China’s biggest mining conglomerates, took a significant risk, building a mine in economically backward North Korea that was designed to feed China’s steel mills and provide much-needed investment to China’s impoverished ally. The business spat came into the open last month when Xiyang posted a gritty, salacious blog item describing what the company called its “nightmare” in running the mine. It included details of high living by the North Korean managers when they visited China, where they were said to have demanded female escorts, expensive alcohol and cars. To the surprise of many, North Korea responded to Xiyang’s accusations with some of its own, despite its heavy dependence on Chinese aid and the investment of Chinese companies. The Beijing office of the Joint Venture and Investment Committee of North Korea posted a note on its Web site saying that Xiyang had failed to provide up to half of the investment it promised even after several years, and that many laws and regulations had been passed to provide more legal protection for foreign investors. To stand a chance of real economic advancement, analysts say, he would need continuing support from China. About two-thirds of the 305 foreign investments in North Korea are Chinese, according to a list published by the Open Source Center, a United States government intelligence organization that analyzes publicly available material. Japan comes next with 15 investments, according to the list.

Despite this spat between North Korea and a Chinese company, Chinese state media is claiming that North Korea is becoming a field for Chinese firms to compete in, from The Global Times:

As often with stories about North Korea, interest quickly faded once it was clear that this was not “the end of China’s support for North Korea” as so often predicted but something more akin to the normal give and take of business activities. The Chinese position seems to be that North Korea is stable under its new leadership and, no doubt with proper precautions, can be a reliable business partner. Negative assessments of North Korea’s economic development continue as regular features in most of the world’s press. Journalists who manage to get to the country, or who rely on refugee reports, play down the signs of economic change.

As with Myanmar about 10 years ago, some commentators see all Chinese activities as a seamless whole.

While speculations on China and North Korea’s economic relationship continues, the North’s relations with South Korea have been deteriorating as the South preparing to evacuate over 800 people at the DMZ . Amid mounting tensions, China is urging restraint between the two Koreas, Reuters adds:

Impoverished North Korea said on Friday it would attack if Seoul allowed activists to drop anti-northern leaflets on its territory, in its most strident warning against its long-time foe for months. “As a close neighbor of the peninsula, China urges the two Koreas to resolve the conflict through dialogue and consultation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement. “We hope the two parties can stay calm and not make any provocative or radical actions.”

A looming presidential election in the south and plans to deploy longer-range missiles by the government in Seoul have angered the north and prompted an escalation of belligerent rhetoric from Pyongyang.

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