From the Age, via Asia Media: Necessarily, Liu’s strategy is not to “broadcast and be damned”. He makes sure Phoenix TV presents touchy news in a way that makes clear there is no challenge to the system. In between, it runs plenty of upbeat, feel-good features about China’s achievements and projects dear to central and […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The Chinese leadership has developed an “irrational fear” of so-called colour revolutions, leading to a tightening of controls over political freedom, human rights activist John Kamm said yesterday. Mr. Kamm made the remark at a wide-ranging talk organised by the Asia Society in Hong Kong, during […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Rong Yiren, the businessman dubbed a “red capitalist” before tycoons became commonplace in China, died in Beijing on Wednesday at age 89, state media reported Thursday. In one of the most intriguing personal stories of survival and influence through the tumultuous period when China embraced and then rejected Communism, Rong […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via the International Herald Tribune: The world’s largest standing army is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to bring back Chinese art treasures such as those now in the homes of collectors including Ronald Lauder, chairman of Estee Lauder International; Tsui Tsin-tong, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong manufacturing and property company CNT […]
Read MoreThe Asian Wall Street Journal published my commentary on the recent Internet Regulations: Almost overnight, the Internet has emerged as the single most important forum the Chinese people have to criticize government policies and...
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: In the following, you will find the full translation of Li Ao’s speech at Beijing University. I was working off an imperfect transcription (see Xinzhoubao; in Chinese) that contained some things that were obvious errors. Therefore, this translation contains some guesses by me as to what was really said. There are other […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star: Prolific and controversial Taiwan author Li Ao riled China on Wednesday by giving millions of Internet surfers and television viewers a taste of the self-ruled island’s freewheeling democracy. Li championed freedom of speech and took repeated swipes at the Communist Party in a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session at Peking University televised […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group Plc and Universal Music Group are suing Baidu.com Inc., China’s most-used Internet search engine, for allowing free downloads of their music. The companies filed lawsuits against Baidu in the Beijing Intermediate Court, seeking to stop it from offering the service, Leong May Seey, […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: As Hong Kong Disneyland prepares to open on Monday, Disney will hold off building a similar theme park in mainland China until it has been assured that it will be able to air Disney shows on Chinese television, according to Robert Iger, the company’s president. Disney’s firm stance underlines the […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): Under construction since January 2003, and in the planning stages for three years before that, the 310-acre park represents Disney’s boldest move yet into...
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