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From the Useless Tree blog: As recent cases of internet censorship and press closures remind us, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) works hard to control the flow of information into and out of the country. It is failing, however. More messages, ideas and images are crossing the borders in both directions […]
Read MoreFrom the AP: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi prayed at the Yasukuni war shrine Tuesday to mark Tokyo’s World War II surrender, triggering immediate protests by China and South Korea but cheering his conservative followers. It was Koizumi’s sixth visit to the shrine since taking office in 2001, but his first on the highly symbolic […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Discharges of COD (chemical oxygen demand) and SO2 (sulphur dioxide) increased by 4.2 per cent and 5.8 per cent respectively from the same period last year, said Zhou Shengxian, minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA). The official attributed the rise to rapid economic growth so far this year. The data, […]
Read MoreFrom the AP Blog: Forty years ago, Chinese communist chairman Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It’s an unpleasant anniversary that official Beijing will not celebrate and most Chinese would rather forget. Mao’s objective: to purge the party of its moderate, pragmatic faction, which he said was leading China away from Marxism and […]
Read MoreHorseback riders in Shangri-la, Yunnan Province, by Vivian Fung
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