From Project Syndicate: Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples’ Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden-faced and opaque. Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop. Hu’s unbridled glorification of “Mao Zedong Thought,” coupled with […]
Read More…I cannot imagine that in fifteen years, I could manage not to ever visit the adoptive mother who reared me from a young age. Or that after becoming the supreme leader of the country, that I would not go in person to sweep the graves of my own father and mother, and instead would have […]
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 MoreFrom Hindu News: A section of the Yellow River, China’s second longest, turned red and smelly in Lanzhou, Capital of northwest China’s Gansu Province, forcing the local environment watchdog to launch an investigation. Residents were alarmed to see a sewage pipe pouring red water into the Yellow River on Sunday. The discharge occurred in downtown […]
Read MoreReady? Set, Go!!! (An amateurish Tibetan independence protest clip below) Did you know: China will spend more than $400 billion through 2010 building airports, roads, water systems and infrastructure projects, according to today’s Wall Street Journal. Three major tabs: $40 billion for the Beijing Olympics (by 2008, 3 times that of Athens’s infrastructure spending), $41 […]
Read MoreFrom International Campaign for Tibet: Video footage of Tibetans who were crossing into Nepal being shot by Chinese border police on September 30 refutes official claims that the troops fired “in self-defence”. The video footage, taken by a Romanian cameraman who was at advance base camp on Mount Cho Oyo at the time, depicts a […]
Read MoreEditor and Publisher, and the Wikipedia site itself, report that the English version of Wikipedia is now accessible in China after being blocked for over a year. CDT has also gotten reports from Internet users in Beijing that...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Yahoo! goes further than any of its rivals in blocking information on Tibet, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Ma says it is as much of a philosophical choice as a...
Read MoreFrom McClatchy Newspapers’ Tim Johnson’s blog: The Chinese media love to highlight stories that illustrate how violent U.S. society is. Latest case in point: The Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania are all over the newspapers here. But get this: There was a school shooting in China, and it’s nowhere to be seen in the press. […]
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Herald: Chinese government officials tried to block a reception in the Scottish parliament which drew attention to the plight of one of the communist regime’s oppressed minorities. The diplomats, who were taking their orders from Beijing, asked UK ministers to stop an event attended by Uighur refugees. They feared the showcase would […]
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