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Courtesy of Asia Media, several new stories that highlight the challenges and opportunities facing the Chinese media: The Taipei Times covers two widely-reported instances of government censorship: the crackdown on university...
Read MoreFrom the Seattle Post Intelligencer: In the last Party Congress, in 2002, the percentage of women in the 198-member Central Committee dropped to 2.5 percent, an all-time low in the party’s history, from a high of 10 percent in 1973. One of many reasons cited for the decline is that government has become more decentralized […]
Read MoreJournalism professor Jiao Guobiao, who last year wrote a blistering critique of the Propaganda Bureau, has been fired from Beijing University, while he is in the U.S. In an interview with the Hong Kong magazine Yazhou Zhoukan, Jiao said: Last year, after Declaration of the Campaign against The Central Propaganda Department was circulated, the school […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via washingtonpost.com: Speaking after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Chirac said: “I told him that arms exports to China won’t take place; the same with sensitive technology.” Chirac said the reason for lifting the ban was political and that it was no longer appropriate. “The conditions are not the same […]
Read MoreAP has written about protests against the recent crackdown on university BBS sites: Chinese censors scour Internet bulletin boards and blogs for sensitive material, and block access to violators. Sites that let the public post comments are told to censor themselves or face penalties. Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao says restrictions on bulletin boards are likely […]
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