For the Project Syndicate, Sin-ming Shaw, formerly a leading Hong Kong investment fund manager and currently visiting scholar at Columbia University wrote: Should Chairman Mao’s huge portrait still hang above the front gate of Tiananmen Square? Should China’s ruling party still call itself Communist? These are not idle questions. Unless and until China’s leaders answer […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A group of activists petitioned the central government’s liaison office yesterday calling for the early release of Hong Kong-based journalist Ching Cheong… About 500 people have signed an internet petition calling for Ching’s release during the past week, and the alliance plans to step up the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Thousands of workers in a Hong Kong-owned textile mill in southern China staged a strike and protested for higher wages and clashed with police, prompting riot police to use tear gas and arrest workers, Chinese media reported over the weekend. The strife erupted on Friday morning at the Futai Wool […]
Read MoreFrom The LA Times (Sub required): Two years after coming to power, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have staked out a two-pronged strategy for political control: projecting a kinder, gentler image while cracking down on those disseminating unauthorized information. The news this week that a prominent Hong Kong journalist had been detained […]
Read MoreFrom The EastSouthWestNorth blog: The appearance of an article in a mainland Chinese newspaper has caused quite a stir. Here are the factors that made this simple event so significant. First, the newspaper is the Chinese Youth...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (subscription required): Amid great media hoopla surrounding the visits of two top Taiwanese opposition leaders to mainland China in recent weeks a simple truth has been forgotten. It took both leaders, Lien Chan and James Soong, the better part of a working day to complete a journey that could have been […]
Read MoreThe following text is from my oral presentation before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. This Hearing on China’s State Control Mechanisms and Methods was held in Washington D.C. on April 14, 2005. It...
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Today, the enclave’s 460,000 residents are served by eight Chinese and three Portuguese daily newspapers, five Chinese and one Portuguese weeklies, an English daily and dozens of magazine titles; all this on top of a raft of publications imported from Hong Kong and the mainland. Each morning, […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for sending the following in to CDT: I’ve just started reading “Reform of the Chinese Political System” by Zhou Tianyong and collaborators. He is the vice director of research at the Central Party School and the book has a foreword by Li Junru, vice president of the Central Party School. The […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard – China’s Business Newspaper: Tung Chee-hwa is citing poor health and stress as reasons for his resignation. Tung Chee-hwa’s frustrating and unpopular career as Hong Kong’s leader is over. Sources in Beijing say the Chinese Communist Party’s politburo has accepted his resignation as chief executive due to poor health and stress. The […]
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