Alim Seytoff sent CDN this recent commentary, his response to Treat China with Respect, by H.D.S. Greenway, which we posted last week: Treat China with Caution by Alim A Seytoff Washington – Half a century ago when the World War Two was over and when every other country was tired of the unprecedented devastation caused […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via News.com.au: Chinese President Hu Jintao had a meeting today with a teenage boy picked by Beijing to become the second-highest spiritual figure in Tibet, telling him to be patriotic on the eve of his 15th birthday. Hu was shown on state television urging the 11th Panchen Lama, chosen by Beijing in defiance […]
Read MoreDanwei introduced this link: “There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice China blog list, but only in only one is there insanity and genius in such monstrous proportions. In the footsteps of joseph rock is the journey of Sydney blogger Michael, following the footsteps of ‘bad-tempered and imperious’ Joseph Rock, who […]
Read MoreWashington Post reported that thousands of Buddhist pilgrims gathered in the southern republic of Kalmykia on Tuesday for prayers led by the Dalai Lama during his first visit to Russia in a decade. Dalai Lama has been denied entry to Russia for years because of Moscow’s concerns about damaging the relations with China. China expressed […]
Read MoreWhile welcoming certain gestures by the Chinese government, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes after a visit to China that its recommendations in a 1997 report have not been implemented: “Namely, the provision which stipulates that everyone shall not be consider guilty until convicted has not been amended to clearly stipulate the presumption […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor today: “China this week unveiled strict penalties for online porn distributors, but analysts see online freedom on the rise. ”
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...
Read MoreThe author of this essay is an American who works in China for CCTV. Ann Condi is a pen name. Princeton professor Perry Link’s words: it is “the most penetrating analysis I have seen on the psychology of the...
Read MoreXinhua reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. The PC game, “Hearts of Iron“, was accused of distorting historical facts in describing “Manchuria”, “West Xinjiang”, and “Tibet” as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. “All these severely distort […]
Read MoreJonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School Two ways that filtering is taking place: supply and demand. Supply Side: sometimes countries censor their own sites (for example, Google will omit sites that have infringed on copyright law) Demand Side: domain redirection, you search for google and are redirected to Beijing University. The topped filtered sites are Tibet […]
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