Beijing-based Global Times (环球时报) is owned by the People’s Daily and presents a more sensational, and therefore popular, official version of international news. The Global Times website has become an online gathering place...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Chinese concept of “one country, two systems” is most obviously played out in Hong Kong’s boisterous media. Daily newspapers and local television reports here regularly carry photos and reports that...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Actress and Darfur activist Mia Farrow was allowed into Hong Kong Thursday, a day before the Olympic torch winds through a territory where most citizens support the Beijing Olympics and where officials...
Read MoreAn essay by a netizen named Oat Cereal (麦片粥). Translated by CDT: Yesterday I joined the tens of thousands of demonstrators along Embarcadero in San Francisco awaiting the torch along the planned relay route. It was a sunny day,...
Read More“Western leaders’ grandstanding ignores both history and the situation on the ground.” Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, writes in the...
Read MoreTime magazine’s Beijing correspondent Simon Elegant writes: Like all other foreign journalists in China, I get my share of criticism from Chinese readers, mostly about my stories on TIME’s website or my posts on our...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese activists are urging shoppers to stay away from French retailer Carrefour, following the Olympic torch’s troubled passage through Paris. A message circulating on the internet and mobile phones...
Read MoreFrom CNN: The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for “nonviolent” demonstrations. Tibetan monks...
Read MoreWenran Jiang, the acting director of the China Institute, University of Alberta, says, “Failing to understand the deep-rooted emotions on both sides will only hinder potential solutions.” From The Globe and Mail:...
Read MoreWhile little new information has come out since Chinese officials confirmed the stifling of a protest by Uighurs in Hotan on Wednesday, word of the unrest appears to have brought expatriate Uighurs into the fold of Olympic torch...
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