From Reuters: Foreign journalists covering the Beijing Olympics must take care to avoid placing Chinese assistants and news sources at risk of arrest when covering sensitive topics, a U.S. watchdog group said on Thursday. The...
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: In the aftermath of China’s devastating earthquake, Prime Minsister Wen Jiabao is running around the earthquake zone like a fireman, introducing himself as “Grandpa.” The Communist Party is...
Read MoreGrace Wang, a Chinese student at Duke University, was caught in the middle when she tried to mediate a confrontation between pro-Tibetan and pro-China protesters on campus recently. She and her family were later harrassed by...
Read MoreAfter excoriating a respected news editor for advocating greater freedom of speech and venting their anger on a Chinese student at Duke University for trying to promote dialogue between pro-China and pro-Tibet protestors,...
Read MoreAs the Olympic torch relay keeps the world’s attention focused on recent unrest in Tibetan areas, more details are emerging about reported incidents in Xinjiang. From AP: As China grapples with protests in Tibet, it also...
Read MoreFor Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown writes that shrinking glaciers in China and India could affect the food supply not only in those countries but around the world: Yao Tandong, a leading Chinese glaciologist, reports that...
Read MoreOn his blog, Richard Spencer writes about a recent hardline speech by the Communist Party secretary in Tibet and his “with us or against us” stance that forces observers, including foreign journalists, to take sides: China is not a right/wrong, black/white sort of place, and when we gather, we scorn articles disseminated from London or […]
Read MoreThe Independent provides another update on the shooting of Tibetan refugees fleeing to Nepal earlier this month: A few minutes of jerky video footage shot by a Romanian cameraman on a mountaineering trip brought the plight of Tibetans under Chinese rule into Western living rooms this month. For once, the world was able to watch […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
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