From BBC: “Hong Kong’s new Legislative Council members have taken the territory’s official oath of office. In last month’s elections, 25 of the 60 seats went to pro-democracy candidates – more than ever before. The new members are likely to create problems for Hong Kong’s leader Tung Chee-hwa and his pro-China government. One of the […]
Read MoreThis article is nine days old but it showed another perspective on the Google China News Service issue. The article was on China Economic Net, a online news site based inside of China. “Recently, Google Inc., a search engine operator, launched its trial Chinese version of news with a low key; before that, it had […]
Read MoreThe China Elections and Governance website has translated an article from Southern Weekend about changes in the focus of peasants’ activism in rural China: “Relying mainly on a recent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) study, this article describes how the focus of peasant activism has moved from tax disputes to property rights, particularly in […]
Read MoreAccording to the Washington Post, the outcome of yesterday’s Hong Kong legislative election, which gave the Democrats additional seats but not a majority, “represented a setback for the campaign to persuade Beijing to allow universal suffrage here. ” The Straits Times, meanwhile, reports that, “Hong Kong media criticised Beijing yesterday for meddling in this weekend’s […]
Read MoreThe AP reports today, “A group of industry, farm and labor groups, seeking to put pressure on the Bush administration before the presidential election, petitioned the government on Thursday to file an unfair trade practices case against China. ” The full report is here. In April, the Bush Administration rejected a similar petition from labor […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports that the Chinese government is becomingly increasingly uneasy with the flourishing Asian democracies at its borders – especially since the experiences of China’s neighbors belie the government’s standard reasoning of why democracy is not suitable to China: “Indonesia is very instructive,” says a European scholar in Beijing. “We are always […]
Read MoreHong Kong’s Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa told a meeting of pro-democracy legislators that he has no power to ask Beijing to reverse its decision outlawing direct elections by 2007, according to this Channel NewsAsia report.
Read MoreUnder the guidance of Randy Kluver, of Nanyang Technological University, this panel revealed that the effect of the net on Chinese political culture is terribly similar to that in the United States. There’s a digital divide — Bu Wei, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said 28 percent of people in Beijing were net […]
Read MoreBill Xia, Dynamic Internet Technology, Inc. He started with a quick explanation of how the Internet works in China. China has an IP number blacklist – so if your email comes from a black listed IP, it doesn’t get throught. The Chinese government claims it is mainly blocking porn sites, but it doesn’t want people […]
Read More“China’s most powerful legislative committee ruled Monday that Hong Kong will not have direct elections for its next leader in 2007, crushing hopes in the Chinese territory for a quick move toward full democracy.” For full report click here. A Xinhua translation of the NPC Standing Committee’s decision is available here.
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