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From Times Online: CHINA IS IN the grip of a new “cultural revolution”. This revolution differs from Mao Zedong’s calculated mobilisation of Red Guards against the hierarchy in two vitally important respects. It is welling up from below as a culture of outspokenness takes hold; and, although the spread of this revolution, in chat rooms, […]
Read MoreA 71 year old housing eviction protester in Shanghai displays photos and documents related to her case, by Monkeyking.
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Foreign internet companies are facing a critical choice between giving in to Beijing’s media censorship or risking the loss of Net users, according to a prominent mainland blogger. Zhao Jing whose popular blog was shut down by Microsoft last month under central government pressure, said international […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: More than fifteen years after the Berlin Wall was shattered with hammers and bulldozers, a Canadian-designed computer program is preparing to break through what activists call the great firewall of China. The program, in the late stages of development in a University of Toronto office, is designed to help those […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy lashed out against rising protectionism in the U.S., saying Congress is stirring election-year fears about China’s growing economic strength. Increasing congressional opposition to free trade is “a worrying development,” Lamy said in an interview today at his office overlooking Lake Geneva. China’s soaring wealth is “good news […]
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