Isabel Hilton writes on the Guardian: The news that the US president, Barack Obama, had called for an end to internet censorship at a meeting with students in Shanghai lasted 27 minutes on the front page of the Chinese portal...
Read MoreIsabel Hilton writes on The Daily Beast that the recent unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang marks an empire in crisis: There is a story that the Chinese government likes to tell: that China is the world’s oldest continuous, unchanging...
Read MoreFor the Guardian, Isabel Hilton interviews exiled leaders of the 1989 student movement, including Wang Dan, Wu’er Kaixi, and Wang Chaohua, about their experiences then and in the intervening twenty years. From her...
Read MoreHere below is an excerpt from ChinaDialogue editor Isabel Hilton’s interview with Nobel winning Al Gore about China and India: IH: There are people, of course, who say, “What’s the point of acting, as long as China and India are not constrained to act?” AG: Well, the truth is that China and India will have […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian’s Comment is free: … The main difference is in the role of China, Burma’s major trading partner and the principal protector of the regime. So far, China, with the support of Russia, has blocked international attempts to bring the regime into line: nine months ago, China and Russia vetoed a UN security […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Isabel Hilton follows up last week’s news of a mountain being painted green in southwestern China’s Fumin County with a commentary on what the incident reflects about China’s approach to environmental problems: The episode resonates with a long Chinese tradition of confusing appearance with reality. When, in the 1950s, Mao Zedong decreed […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: When the first cracks appeared in the concrete base and bridges of the Qinghai Tibet railway, just weeks after the carefully staged, triumphal opening on July 1 (the 85th birthday of the Chinese Communist party), they were not the only sign that all is not well with China’s policies in Tibet. The […]
Read MoreFrom the New Statesman (link): According to Hu Jintao, China’s president and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Marxism is still applicable in China. And, in a recent announcement that has startled analysts, the party has pledged “unlimited funds” to the cause of “reviving” Marxism in China, in an attempt to turn the country […]
Read MoreFrom OpenDemocracy (link): With the first public sign of dissent in senior ranks of the Chinese Communist Party, the tensions over China’s increasingly repressive approach to press freedom have burst into the open. In the last few weeks, Beijing has stepped up the pressure on China’s press, shutting down newspapers and picking off editors who […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The three-year journey that inspired first Stick Out Your Tongue and then Red Dust was taken 20 years ago, and the book itself was banned in China in 1987. In Lhasa, when he arrived, the Chinese were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the “liberation” of Tibet, a miserable festival of flags and […]
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