Chinese climbers, including Han and ethnic Tibetans, summited Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, with an Olympic flame. From AP via the New York Times: Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team...
Read MoreGerman scholar, Gudrun Wacker, takes a new approach to the recent Olympic human rights controversy. From German Institute of International and Security Affairs: Did the Chinese government know what they were in for when they...
Read MoreChina has a “‘Long Way to Go’ On Rights, Pollution And Press Freedom,” according to Jill Drew and Maureen Fan of the Washington Post: China has spent billions of dollars to fulfill its commitment to stage...
Read MoreThree demonstrators with Students for a Free Tibet were arrested in San Francisco today after they climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and hung a protest banner that read, “”One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 08”....
Read MoreWritten by activists Hu Jia and Teng Biao, from Washington Post: On July 13th 2001, when Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese government promised the world it would improve China’s human rights...
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Organisers of the Beijing Olympics have been hit by a lawsuit from a city resident who claims they violated his intellectual property rights by failing to give him credit for the event’s official slogan,...
Read MoreFrom The China Beat blog: Last year the International Olympic Committee (IOC) invited me to write an essay on the Beijing Olympics, and “The Beijing Effect” was published in the July-September 2006 issue of The...
Read MoreMary-Anne Toy interviewed well-known artist Ai Weiwei, who was also a co-designer of the Olympic stadium – the bird-nest. Ai has left the project and says that “it is part of a pretend smile of bad taste.” In early January 2008, Ai Weiwei wrote a post on his blog on Sina.com saying that China today […]
Read More“One World, One Dream” is the official slogan of the 2008 Olympics and can be seen everywhere in Beijng. There are other lesser known slogans that foreign guests may not see. For example, the above photo taken in a back street in Beijing emerged recently in the Chinese blogosphere. Those political slogan banners are often […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: The group of pro-Tibet activists in China that caught the world’s attention this week by chronicling a series of stunts over the Web used an “age-old tactic” with a savvy, modern twist, says an expert in the field. By using the Internet to circumvent Chinese censors, the Students for a […]
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