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ESWN has translated in full the Southern Weekend article about government agents posting comments undercover on Internet forums to help guide discussions. The original article has disappeared from the Southern Weekend site, but...
Read MoreOn Danwei, Joel Martinsen questions the results of a recent report by employees of Accoona search engine The search engine Accoona was launched last December in a glitzy ceremony attended by former US president Bill Clinton and chess champion Gary Kasporov. After a scant few months of operation, the company announced that it had uncovered […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman writes: Over the last few years China, for its own reasons, has acted as an enabler both of U.S. fiscal irresponsibility and of a return to Nasdaq-style speculative mania, this time in the housing market. Now the U.S. government is finally admitting that there’s a problem – […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: China has blocked a popular website devoted to providing information and support to the nation’s large but closeted homosexual population, the website’s manager and readers said on Wednesday. The Chinese language website www.gaychinese.net, which had 50,000 to 65,000 visits a day mainly from mainland Chinese, had been […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Not so long ago, Japan was the height of fashion. Then came the post-bubble recession and it rapidly faded into the background, condemned as yesterday’s story…No doubt the same fate will befall China in due course, though perhaps a little less dramatically because of its sheer size and import. These vagaries tell […]
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