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Radio Free Asia has reported that riot police fired shots while quelling a protest in Guangdong Province. The villagers were protesting the transfer of public land to the local government, which then sold it to a public developer for a huge profit. A local official told a RFA reporter: “The police dispersed the protesters with […]
Read MoreThe New York Times has published a piece about the important book published last year, “An Investigation of China’s Peasantry” (Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha), which was banned for revealing too much about the plight of China’s underclass. The authors are now being sued for libel. One of the authors, Chen Guidi, is quoted as saying: “We […]
Read MoreFollowing Philip Pan’s very good report on Jiang Yanyong’s detention, the Washington Post has now run an editorial condemning the arrest. It is available here. The piece links Jiang’s arrest with the apparent political struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin: “Dr. Jiang’s detention clearly demonstrates that China’s leaders are in no mood to progress […]
Read MoreAccording to an AFP report, “Hong Kong hospital chief Leong Che-hung became the second high-profile health official to quit in 24 hours following a scathing report into last year’s SARS outbreak. ” Leong’s resignation comes a day after Hong Kong health minister Yeoh Eng-kiong quit after being criticized for the slow response to last year’s […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports that the Chinese government is becomingly increasingly uneasy with the flourishing Asian democracies at its borders – especially since the experiences of China’s neighbors belie the government’s standard reasoning of why democracy is not suitable to China: “Indonesia is very instructive,” says a European scholar in Beijing. “We are always […]
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