From The LA Times: The defection of a senior Chinese diplomat in Australia who claims he helped oversee a vast spy network has cast a spotlight on China’s espionage activities at a time of increased global trade tensions and concern over Beijing’s military spending. Chen Yonglin, the first secretary of the Chinese Consulate General in […]
Read MoreFrom IPS: For former political prisoner Adhe Tapontsang, the 27 years she spent in a Chinese jail, for aiding the Tibetan resistance in the 1950s, was sheer hell.
Read MoreNine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreFor 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 AP, via Taipei Times: From Afghanistan to East Timor, human rights were trampled with impunity in Asia last year by governments and armed rebel groups, Amnesty International said yesterday… In China, authorities used the threat of terrorism to justify a crackdown on minority Muslim Uighurs, closing many unofficial mosques, arresting imams and restricting the […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for sending the following into CDT: Prof. Arienne Dwyer of the University of Kansas just sent me The Xinjiang Conflict: Uighur Identity, Language, Policy and Political Discourse. The book does get into the linguistic weeds a bit, but is worth skimming for those who follow developments in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous […]
Read MoreFrom News24.com: Tibetan mountaineers and a team of volunteers have begun a six-week clean up of Mount Everest, where tons of rubbish has been dumped by expeditions, state media said Monday. The team is scaling the world’s highest peak from the Chinese side and will spend until World Environment Day in early June collecting garbage, […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Serious shortages of primary energy sources like oil and coal have prompted the mainaland Chinese government to promulgate a law on the development of renewable energy sources. Solar energy could be the first choice as an alternative to fossil fuels. China’s western areas, especially the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, and […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Standard: While learning materials in mainland high schools take special pains to outline Japanese aggression beginning with the 1874 invasion of Taiwan, China’s involvement in the 1950-53 Korean war is dismissed in one sentence. At the same time, such are the holes in modern Chinese history that the average mainland college […]
Read MoreFrom Art Daily: The Ashmolean Museum presents Everyone’s Life is an Epic: New Work by Qu Lei Lei, on view through July 17, 2005. For the first time in the Ashmolean’s series of Chinese exhibitions, a show will be devoted to the paintings of a living artist, Qu Lei Lei. Renowned worldwide, Lei Lei will […]
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