Facebook Eyes China
Facebook, the online social networking site, has invited English-speaking users in China to help translate the site into Mandarin. The company used the same technique, known as ‘crowd-sourcing’, in Spain recently to...
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Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
Opinion: Tibet and the Olympics
Joshua Kurlantzick argues in the New Republic that the Chinese government is cracking down on dissent under the guise of Olympic security. Not only has the government blamed riots in Tibet on the separatist Dalai Lama clique,...
Read MoreCompetition in China’s Next Presidential Election?
Earlier this month, China’s legislature gathered and, among other things, reelected Hu Jintao as the country’s president — no surprise there. But the election of Xi Jinping as vice president, rather than Li...
Read MoreEthnic Tension In and Around Tibet
Telegraph correspondent Richard Spencer talked about the origins of recent protests in the town of Rebkong in his March 21 blog post, “A balloon, sheep and protests in Tibet” (mentioned in a previous CDT post)....
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