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As a follow-up to Philip Pan’s article in the Washington Post today, and coverage of the arrest of activist Chen Guangcheng, see Xinhua’s Sept. 20 story: The national population and family planning agency on Monday said that an investigation has proven that reported population-control abuses by family planning officials in east Shandong Province are factual. […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: Critics say that cooperating with governments to suppress free speech violates human rights, international law and corporate ethics. But what the experts can’t agree on is what the companies should do about it. The Internet — even with limitations — is generally considered a powerful democratizing force. If international companies […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: For centuries, the Mosuo women sang haunting ballads on Lugu Lake to arouse their lovers’ passions. Now they sing to satisfy the tourists, but 42-year-old Zaxi Zouma is not complaining. Immaculate in her bright traditional head-dress and turquoise tunic, life for her today is a far cry from the 1990s, when she […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Over the past 16 years, the Chinese leadership has tried its best to dodge democratic reform while looking for alternative measures to stamp out rampant corruption and increase government efficiency. However, it seems to have recently come to the conclusion that there is just no way other than democratic reform. Chinese President […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China said Monday it has dismissed and detained officials in the eastern city of Linyi for abuses committed while enforcing the country’s one-child policy. But the government provided no details, and said nothing about the arrest of a blind activist who had campaigned against the use of forced abortion and sterilization […]
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