For American Pundits, China is a Fantasyland
In an op-ed at The Washington Post, James Palmer attacks the use of China’s achievements in...
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Washington Post Hacked as Visa Limbo Continues
The Washington Post has revealed a recent intrusion into its servers, for which China is a chief...
Leaders & Activists Clash on Global Thinkers List
Foreign Policy magazine has published the latest iteration of its annual Global Thinkers list....
Thomas Friedman Only Foreigner On CPC Book List
The State Organs Work Committee of CPC Central Committee ranked Thomas Friedman's bestseller,...
Who Dreamed Up the Chinese Dream? [Updated]
This week, Party general secretary and Chinese president Xi Jinping graced the cover of The Economist for the second time, accompanying a special feature on his “Chinese Dream” initiative. At South China Morning...
The Choking of China — and The World
In The Independent, Johann Hari writes about China’s “ecological disintegration”, heavily citing Jonathan Watts’ book, When A Billion Chinese Jump. Swiping at “gasbag” Thomas Friedman’s...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Friedman’s Flawed Beijing Bulletin
On the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom responds to Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times about the power of nationalist bloggers in China: One problem with Friedman’s column is that it creates...
Thomas Friedman: Aren’t We Clever?
On a trip to China, New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman strikes again: While American Republicans were turning climate change into a wedge issue, the Chinese Communists were turning it into a work issue. “There is...
Thomas L. Friedman: Power to the (Blogging) People
Thomas Friedman is visiting from Beijing and writes today about nationalism in China’s blogosphere, and the reaction to a speech by Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the ASEAN meeting this summer about China’s claims...
Thomas Friedman: Our One-Party Democracy
In the New York Times, Thomas Friedman opines about the state of democracy in China and the U.S.: One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is...
Yan Lieshan (鄢烈山): The Liberalization of News and the Flattening of the Society
Yan Lieshan (鄢烈山) is a well-established Chinese columnist and author of fifteen books. Born in Hubei province in 1952, he worked as a farmer, an elementary school teacher, and a government official before joining the news sector...
China to the Rescue? Not!
Thomas Friedman continues his reporting from China. Writing from Dafen, home to knock-off masterpiece paintings, Friedman looks at how the U.S.-China relationship will change in the wake of the global financial crisis: After...
Thomas Friedman: The Great Unraveling
Writing from Hong Kong, Thomas Friedman discusses the Madoff scandal, and relates it to the different approaches the U.S. and China have taken toward managing the end of communism and the rise of capitalism: It is both...
A Biblical Seven Years
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman writes: As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t...
Thomas Friedman Gets the Middle Finger in the Middle Kingdom – Rebecca MacKinnon
From RConversation: It’s not every day that you get to sit and watch a senior Chinese diplomat rip Thomas Friedman “a new one” (as we say in American colloquial parlance) as all the Chinese members of the audience cheer him on. But on Friday morning in a panel discussion titled “China’s Soft Power” that’s what […]
Chinese Journalists Tire of Thomas Friedman – Danwei
From Danwei and ESWN, translations of Chinese blogger’ reactions to Thomas Friedman’s recent visit to China: New York Times rock star columnist Thomas Friedman has just concluded a speaking tour of China to promote the Chinese language edition of his book. It seems that Chinese journalists and media people are getting a little tired of […]
China: Scapegoat or Sputnik – Thomas L. Friedman
From The New York Times: As I was saying, Mr. Rove, Americans aren’t as stupid as you think. Now that we’ve settled that, and now that we’ve had an election that clarified which country is most important in shaping U.S. politics in 2006 ” Iraq ” I’ve come to visit the country that’s most likely […]
The Low Post: How the Media Lies About China – Matt Taibbi
From Rolling Stone: Remember Roger and Me? Remember those two rich old white ladies on the golf course who waxed poetic on the first tee about the despair of laid-off auto workers in Flint, Michigan, talking about how people just need to “try harder” and “keep at it” or whatever to overcome their problems? Well, […]
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