From RConversation: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Cisco and others have been getting a lot of heat over the past year for colluding with human rights violations and state censorship in countries like China. Fortunately, three of those four companies have found the wherewithal to do more than just duck and cover. A couple of months ago […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: China’s top administrative authority, the State Council, passed “in principle” yesterday the long-awaited ordinance on information disclosure [‰∏≠Âçé‰∫∫Ê∞ëÂÖ±ÂíåÂõΩÊîøÂ∫ú‰ø°ÊÅØÂ֨ºÄÊù°‰æãÔºàËçâÊ°à)], which some experts believe could give the public and media better access to a whole range of government information. The ordinance, which could pave the way for a more powerful law on information […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The crimes of communist China’s founder shouldn’t blind us to achievements which paved the way for its current modernisation. Nobody wants to be an apologist for Mao. Even the Communist party, five years after his death, delivered the verdict that his crimes during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution meant […]
Read MoreFrom Spot-On: Not to discount all the dizzying growth and change, but it’s often easy to view progress in China as sloppy sublation of the most basic problems. Old issues never die. They just get old. Take the regular “crackdowns” on corruption. They do little more than lend a wisp of legitimacy to a system […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: The Chinese government signaled a tougher line on military corruption Tuesday, but in characteristic fashion provided few details about how it intended to clean up one of the world’s most secretive armed forces. A new eight-point regulation “aims to strengthen supervision on auditing, maintain financial order, raise profits and boost the overall […]
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