China Telecom Picks Nortel for Expansion
According to an AP report: “Canadian telecom giant Nortel Networks said Tuesday it had landed a contract with China Telecom to expand data networks across southern and eastern China.
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
China, Google News and source inclusion
Yesterday Google issued a formal response to accusations that the company has censored news sources on their new Chinese language news service. The statement, posted on the Google blog, is here.
Read MoreJournalist accused of “revealing state secrets”
Journalist Zhao Yan, who was arrested this week in Shanghai, was also working as a researcher for the New York Times bureau in Beijing. He is accused of “revealing state secrets,” though it’s unclear so far whether his arrest is linked to his own journalism, which was critical of government policy, or to his work […]
Read MoreSlashdot debates Google’s new China news service
After news broke that Google has been accused of omitting certain sources in their new Chinese language news service, readers at Slashdot.org (“News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”) have been in a lively debate over the issues. Read the arguments here. Last year, Wired magazine published an article “Google vs. Evil”: “The world’s biggest, best-loved […]
Read MoreChina – What price reform?
The Economist has offered a more sobering look at what the transfer of power to Hu means – or doesn’t mean – for democracy in China: “For all the speculation about Mr Hu’s reformist tendencies, there is little to suggest that his strategy for reforming the party differs much from Mr Jiang’s. It is likely […]
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