BBC Sites Blocked Amid Accusations of Foreign Interference in Hong Kong
The BBC has condemned the apparent blocking of its English-language websites in China: BBC Global...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 15, 2014
The BBC has condemned the apparent blocking of its English-language websites in China: BBC Global...
by Samuel Wade | May 19, 2014
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 3, 2013
Currently traveling in China, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that while authorities are quick to crack down on political speech online, it is not difficult to by drugs, guns or prostitutes via the Internet:...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 26, 2012
In an open Q&A session at Reddit this week, The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof discussed his experience covering the Tiananmen protests and his views on sweatshops, among other important issues. CaptainApathy419:...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 29, 2011
Nicholas Kristof writes on China’s ongoing crackdown at the New York Times, concluding that “for those of us who love China and believe in its future, this retreat is painful to watch.” Since China is in the...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 22, 2011
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof started a blog on Sina in order to see how long it wold stay up after he published “counterrevolutionary” posts supporting Liu Xiaobo and other dissidents: On this visit, I...
by Xiao Qiang | May 21, 2008
From the New York Times: In the aftermath of the great Sichuan earthquake, we’ve seen a hopeful glimpse of China’s future: a more open and self-confident nation, and maybe — just maybe — the birth of grass-roots politics here....
by Sophie Beach | May 18, 2008
On his visit to Xiahe, Gansu province, Nicholas Kristof wrote a number of columns for the New York Times and has also produced this video about the current situation for monks at Labrang Monastery who participated in protests in...
by Zhaohua Li | Mar 31, 2008
Planning to write his next column on China and the Tibet protests, New York Times pundit Nicholas Kristof has issued an open call for commentary on his blog. The invitation is as follows: In any case, my sense is that many...
by Xiao Qiang | May 30, 2007
From The New York Times, via The Unknown Candidate blog: There are, I think, four reasons why Chinese students do so well. First, Chinese students are hungry for education and advancement and work harder. In contrast, U.S. children average 900 hours a year in class and 1,023 hours in front of a television. Here in […]
by Sophie Beach | Jun 20, 2006
From the New York Times: All this underscores, I think, that China is not the police state that its leaders sometimes would like it to be; the Communist Party’s monopoly on information is crumbling, and its monopoly on power will follow. The Internet is chipping away relentlessly at the Party, for even 30,000 censors can’t […]
by Xiao Qiang | Feb 18, 2006
From The New York Times, via The Peking Duck: Suppose that Anne Frank had maintained an e-mail account while in hiding in 1944, and that the Nazis had asked Yahoo for cooperation in tracking her down. It seems, based on Yahoo’s behavior in China, that it might have complied. Granted, China is not remotely Nazi […]
by Xiao Qiang | Dec 1, 2004
From the International Herald Tribune: “For the last century, the title of “most important place in the world” has belonged to the United States, but that role seems likely to shift in this century to China. . So what are China’s new leaders, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, really like? Are they visionaries who are […]