This week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series features Ryoichi Hamamoto, former Beijing bureau chief for Yomiuri Shimbun. Hamamoto reported for Yomiuri for 30 years, including seven years...
Read MoreMajor western press such as Reuters and The New York Times all reported on the ” turning point” of Sino-Japan relations started with the visit of the new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China on Oct. 8th. This is the first time China accepted a Japanese Prime Minister’s visit since April 2002, when the […]
Read MoreThis OP-ED was published by Asian Wall Street Journal on 27 April 05: It’s no coincidence that the largest of China’s recent anti-Japanese protests occurred in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and...
Read MoreFrom ISSN: It is not surprising that Chinese President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration was close to losing control over xenophobic […]
Read MoreFrom the Danwei Blog: Most leading headlines of today’s newspapers are about announcements from the Ministry of Public Security. The spokesman of the Ministry expressed deep understanding of students’ patriotic passion, but he also suggested the students should not join any demonstrations without official approval, nor send any messages to encourage demonstration by Internet or […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: The over 2,000-year-old Sino-Japan relations, after going through the process of “strong China and weak Japan” and “strong Japan and weak China”, are now developing toward a relationship between the strong. At least for the moment, neither side of the two is the “weak”, this situation, when entangled with historical issues, […]
Read MoreAmid state-media silence and Chinese Foreign Ministry insistence that two fatal anti-Japanese attacks in Shenzhen and Suzhou were “isolated incidents” that could happen in any country, Chinese bloggers, citizen journalists, and...
Read MoreOne of the subtler ways Chinese internet users voice their displeasure with the status quo is through “pinkfishing” (粉红钓鱼, fěnhóng diàoyú), tricking nationalist “little pinks” into criticizing Party leaders—generally by quoting...
Read MoreThis month, there have been a number of incidents—some major and some minor—that illustrate the “U-lock” mentality, a phrase that is sometimes used as shorthand to describe vitriolic xenophobic (particularly anti-Japanese)...
Read MoreThe following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Cyberspace Administration: Hello everyone, below you will find a summary of the expanded security and...
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