RFA Video: The Yongzhou Unrest
RFA Unplugged has posted footage from the riots last month over bus fares in Yongzhou, Guangdong Province. See the full RFA post here. Read more about the incident here.
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Taiwan VP Offers Love, Respect for China – William Foreman
From AP, via the Washington Post: Vice President Annette Lu, the outspoken target of scathing criticism from Beijing, said Thursday that if she becomes Taiwan’s next president, she will use a feminine touch to ease hostilities with China _ the island’s biggest security threat. She said she would emphasize respect, cooperation and love rather than […]
Read MoreFarrow attacks Spielberg, Olympic sponsors on Darfur – Reuters
American actress Mia Farrow, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, criticizes China’s relationship with Sudan’s government, as well as film director Steven Spielberg for his role in helping the Chinese government stage the 2008 Olympics. From Reuters: American actor Mia Farrow has criticised film director Steven Spielberg and four corporate sponsors for supporting […]
Read More‘Enormous number’ of trade barriers in China, U.S. official says – IHT
From the International Herald Tribune: U.S. officials have singled out China’s failure to protect U.S. copyrights, national government subsidies and regulations that favor Chinese companies as methods used to limit the competitiveness of U.S. companies in China. Lavin highlighted tensions in the aviation, steel and telecommunications industries, most of which center around charges that Chinese […]
Read MoreChina vows to get tough on accident cover-up – Xinhua
From Xinhua: The State Council called for harsher punishments for those who make false reports or flee and hide after an accident. It also called for closer investigation of all work accidents and harsher punishments for those responsible. The State Council encouraged a wider range of supervision from the public and media and better protection […]
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