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From the New York Times Magazine: Early one morning in April 1998, a middle-aged Tibetan named Thupten Ngodup poured gasoline over himself in a public toilet in downtown New Delhi and struck a match. Outside, the Indian police were breaking up a hunger strike organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence organization among […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is winning African hearts and minds by offering the world’s poorest continent everything from cheap flip-flops to new sports stadiums, but the West is wary of the Asian giant’s methods and motives. From a 20,000-seater soccer stadium in coup-prone Central African Republic to a huge parliament building in war-hit Ivory Coast, China […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: The ruthless suppression of the villagers of Dongzhou was a troubling reminder that China has not yet abandoned the brutal tactics that led to the slaughter of hundreds of students at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Fearful of retribution, most villagers refused to discuss the clash, but dozens did provide a […]
Read MoreFrom the Useless Tree blog: Notice, too, how today the People’s Daily and China Daily both run a story announcing the sixth confirmed case of Bird Flu. And this gets picked up by the Washington Post. They are changing the story, diverting out gaze elsewhere… And, then, they respond indirectly with a People’s Daily story […]
Read MoreFrom Salon.com: About once a month executives from China’s Internet news sites gather in a small meeting room on the first floor of Beijing’s Information Office, where a government official tells them what not to report. China’s Internet giants all send representatives, as does the China branch of one of America’s best known icons: Yahoo. […]
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