What to do when the law and basic humanity are in opposition? The Chinese internet has an answer: “Aim the rifle an inch higher” (枪口抬高一厘米, qiāngkǒu táigāo yī límǐ). The phrase is shorthand for subverting orders that violate...
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicts that universal encryption could end the very...
A Century Weekly editorial at Caixin online cites Niall Ferguson’s argument that 11/9 (1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall) is more definitive of our times than 9/11, and argues that the rise of the BRIC nations outweighs...
As CDT reported two weeks ago, Chinese netizens have taken over a website dedicated to commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall in order to blast Internet censorship in their country. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the...
For the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews David Shambaugh’s China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation in light of commemorations of the fall of the Berlin Wall: Written by a high-profile political...
From Monsters and Critics: Chinese authorities appear to be blocking access to a state-funded website which recalls the evil of the Berlin Wall, organizers of the culture project in the German capital said Thursday. The website...
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, KulturProjekte Berlin set up a virtual “Berlin Twitter Wall” where individuals could post their thoughts on the occasion through use of a Twitter...
In Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Wasserstrom looks at the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago on the Chinese Communist Party, and how it may have inadvertently helped them stay in power: China, unlike the Eastern...
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