Overseas Chinese political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, translated by David Kelly: Last week, the US once again became ground zero for turmoil on global stock markets. It was triggered by much worse than...
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point in a spreading peasants’ revolt against one of the key aspects of Communist Party rule: state ownership of farmland. “My ancestors bought this land” […]
Read MoreFrom Time: As far as live television goes, it doesn’t get much more compelling. What was supposed to be a stately ceremony inaugurating China Central Television’s 2008 Olympics coverage turned into a public spectacle after a popular Beijing newscaster grabbed the mike, interrupting the festivities to accuse her husband, a CCTV anchor, of adultery. For […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune: The dawn of 2008 opens an extraordinary period in China’s rise that is likely to thrust the nation into a greater role in world affairs than at any time in recent history. But this moment of potential also carries enormous risk: 2008 is likely to test China’s fragile economic boom, its […]
Read MoreFrom Under the Jacaranda Tree blog: Wang Dan, a Chinese dissident and student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, has published an article at the Independent Chinese Pen Centre in which he discusses the political implications of the Tigergate Incident, the Yilishen Scandal and the Chang’e Moon Photograph Saga. … The following is my […]
Read MoreIn recent years, “external propaganda” (外宣) has become an increasingly important function in the Chinese Communist Party and government. From the Central Committee to every level of the Party and Government, external...
Read MoreMure Dickie of the Financial Times writes about the censorship of his views as a panelist on a Chinese television show: While courageous Chinese journalists continually test the boundaries, they swim against a regulatory tide. The collapse of the government’s attempt to cover up the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in 2003 raised hopes […]
Read MoreThis is an Editorial from Seattle Times: Yahoo’s apology and financial settlement with the families of two prisoners in China are warnings to American business. Ethical behavior does not begin and end with the law. That is not a lesson confined to China, but it may be easier to see through a Chinese lens. In […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s muzzled press and burgeoning Internet have given citizen reporters an audience and an opportunity — however fleeting — to spread news quicker than government censors can control it. But the ability of bloggers to dodge censors and provide a voice for China’s poor and disadvantaged by covering news events Beijing would rather […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang testified to lawmakers on Tuesday that the company has been “open and forthcoming” about its role in a Chinese government investigation that led in 2005 to a journalist’s imprisonment. “We have answered every question, provided every requested piece of information and worked with you in good faith,” […]
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