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From The South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: The number of Internet users in China will hit 134 million by the end of this year, consolidating its position as the second largest market in the world after the United States, research firm Analysys International said on Thursday. The figure would mark a […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The powerlessness of Beijing’s estimated 65,000 taxi drivers goes to the heart of a complaint that has arisen repeatedly as China’s economy moves toward free-market liberalism while its one-party government retains a monopoly on power. In the disruptions brought about by economic change, millions of workers have been left defenseless by […]
Read MoreOn AsiaMedia, Willy Lam writes: Can Hu Jintao recover from the blow that the so-called ‘Zhao Ziyang fiasco’ has dealt to his already shaky reputation? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s shabby treatment of the recently deceased former party chief has cast doubt not only on Hu’s commitment to reform but also his integrity as a […]
Read MoreBao Tong, Zhao Ziyang’s aide during the 1989 democracy movement, has written an essay titled, “Remembering Zhao Ziyang”: For genuine and long-term stability, Zhao proposed reforms that ultimately aimed at the legalization and systemization of democracy. He wished to establish the kind of democratic politics that could support and nurture a healthy market economy. Although […]
Read MoreJournalism students at Beijing Foreign Studies University have written their opinions of the arrest of New York Times researcher Zhao Yan on their weblog, We Observe the World. Their professor Joseph Bosco writes, “For the final exam of last semester’s ‘American Journalism’ class at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, I asked my 60 students to […]
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