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From The Observer, a travel piece on the Kashgar Sunday market: It is the westernmost town in China, and it ought not to exist at all. Geologically and politically, Kashgar is the last town on one of the longest dead ends on the planet. On three sides, it is shielded by the Karakorum and Pamir […]
Read MoreRebecca MacKinnon posts excerpts of a document sent to Yahoo!’s Beijing office from the Beijing State Security Bureau requesting information about Yahoo! user Shi Tao, who is now serving a ten-year sentence for revealing state secrets. As Rebecca points out, the document (originally translated and posted by the Duihua Foundation) specifically says the investigation concerns […]
Read MoreNewsweek interviews Jimmy Lai of Hong Kong’s Next Media empire. When asked how things have gone for press freedom in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover, Lai responds: Beautifully. The press has been free. But a lot of the media has gone into self-censorship, either because they’re so afraid or purely for economic considerations. They […]
Read MoreReuters looks at Hu Jintao’s first five years in power and concludes that his influence is limited by a continuing power struggle with his predecessor, Jiang Zemin: Hu, the country’s fourth-generation leader after Mao, Deng and Jiang, is the first among equals in the Standing Committee but his power is not absolute and he is […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports that a recent plea from Propaganda chief Li Changchun to Hu Jintao to close down Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, which had published an article criticizing the Party’s monopoly on power, was...
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