In Beijing: Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum & Laura Poitras
At Fusion, Kashmir Hill records the meeting in Beijing of outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei,...
Wikileaks
Snowden May Leave Hong Kong for Iceland
Speculation has mounted this week that NSA leaker Edward Snowden might leave Hong Kong for Iceland, removing a small but buzzing fly from the ointment of Sino-U.S. relations and possibly defusing accusations of spying for China....
Family of Wen Jiabao Holds Hidden Fortune
A New York Times investigation into business dealings by the family of prime minister Wen Jiabao has prompted the blocking in China of the newspaper’s English and Chinese websites. The article, by David Barboza, uncovers...
Caixin Post on Leadership Leaks Ordered Removed
On Wednesday, Caixin published a blog post containing excerpts from three Wikileaked diplomatic cables from 2007. The cables described Hu Jintao’s secret visits to political gatherings at the resort town of Beidaihe, the...
Wenzhou's Wikileaks Chronicles Warning Signs for China's Economy
The ceremony for the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize will be held in Beijing next May, the Wall Street Journal reports: This is the first time in the prize’s 32-year history that the ceremony will take place in China....
China’s Nuclear-Power Chief: A Spy?
Revelations from a top-ranking Chinese general appear to reveal that the head of China’s nuclear-power program, Kang Rixin, was a spy. From the New Yorker: When Kang Rixin, the head of China’s nuclear-power program, was...
Wikileaks: From Xi Jinping’s Rise to Jiang Zemin’s Buddhism
Leaked diplomatic cables from late 2007, newly released by Wikileaks, shed some light on the processes by which next year’s leadership succession was determined, as well as some juicier though perhaps less substantial...
Special Report: Cables Show U.S. Sizing up China’s Next Leader
With Xi Jinping poised to take over from President Hu Jintao in 2012, China observers are trying to piece together the little information available about him to figure out what kind of a leader he might be. A profile in the New...
WikiLeaks: US and China in Military Standoff over Space Missiles
The Telegraph has obtained files from Wikileaks that show the U.S. and China were engaged in a skirmish after each country used missiles to shoot down their own satellites: The two nuclear superpowers both shot down their own...
WikiLeaks’ Assange: China is Our Real Enemy
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, says in an interview that his organization is helping Chinese Internet users find ways to circumvent the Great Firewall to access Wikileaks and other blocked sites. From Reuters: Assange,...
Xi Jinping: The ‘Boring’ Princeling Awaiting his Chance to Rule China
The secret diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks have revealed a portrait of Xi Jinping, China’s leader-in-waiting about whom little is known by the public. From the Daily Telegraph: Until now, Mr Xi has remained a...
Microblog, WikiLeaks Top 2010 Internet Terms in China
AFP reports on the top Internet terms in China for 2010: Web users searched the definition of the term “microblog” more than three million times on Hudong.com this year, while they sought out the meaning of...
China Resisted U.S. Pressure on Rights of Nobel Winner
As readers delve deeper into the Wikileaks cables, more secrets are being revealed about the inner workings of global diplomacy. In particular, the New York Times looks at conversations between U.S. and Chinese diplomats about...
China ‘Backs Korean Reunification’ and Other Wikileaks News (Updated with Video)
The recent batch of classified documents released by Wikileaks reportedly show that Chinese officials would support the reunification of the two Koreas and would not stop the disintegration of the North. From Al Jazeera: The...
China Directed Google Hacking: Leaked US Documents
The release of new documents by Wikileaks reveal that U.S. officials believed that the Chinese government was behind the hacking of Google accounts and U.S. government websites. From AFP: The secret cables obtained by...
Waiting for Wikileaks: Beijing’s Seven Secrets
For his blog on the New York Review of Books site, Perry Link writes about a recent high-level meeting convened by President Hu Jintao in July to discuss ways to prevent leaks of CCP archives: The report says that two worries...
Freedom of Information, the Wiki Way – Elizabeth Williamson
From the Washington Post: You’re a government worker in China, and you’ve just gotten a memo showing the true face of the regime. Without any independent media around, how do you share what you have without landing in jail or worse? Wikileaks.org is a Web-based way for people with damning, potentially helpful or just plain […]
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