After Steven Spielberg has written to Hu Jintao to appeal for him to help end the genocide in Darfur, another Hollywood superstar George Clooney spoke out against the Darfur conflict. From BBC News : Hollywood superstar George...
Read MoreTim Johnson, Beijing bureau chief for McLatchy newspapers was among a cadre of Western reporters invited to tour the recently finished Olympic Village where visiting athletes will live during the games. He was impressed with the...
Read MoreAmid protests targeting the “real” China beneath the Olympic fervor, the five Vision Beijing short films made their television debut this week, while Iranian director Majid Majidi received the Bird’s Nest prize...
Read MoreSports columnist Sally Jenkins writes on laughs at arguments that the Olympics are apolitical inthe Washington Post: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge spoke yesterday, and, as usual, he didn’t say...
Read MoreFollowing Steven Spielberg’s withdrawal from the Olympics over the Darfur issue, a number of other international celebrities involved with planning for the Games have spoken out to defend their roles. From The Guardian:...
Read MoreChina has decided to take on the Sudan and Darfur issue perhaps because of the recent international pressure. It remains a question though how big a step China wants to take. From The New York Times: Amid the international...
Read MoreVictor Mallet, a Hong Kong based Asia editor of the Financial Times, published following OP-ED on the Financial Times: Every writer on China knows that even mild public criticism of the middle kingdom generates vitriolic and...
Read MoreThe Guardian gives an update in the case of Yang Chunlin, who is facing subversion charges for demanding protection of human rights: The government has tried to brush off the publicity generated by the US film director Steven...
Read MoreForget bad human rights PR from the likes of Steven Spielberg. According to Xinhua and the Canadian Press, the biggest challenge to Beijing 2008 Games comes from…Uighur separatists? China believes terrorism is the biggest...
Read MoreProlific China scholar Jeffery Wasserstrom writes for OpenDemocracy on the dangers of thinking about China in monolithic terms: China is continually part of the global news agenda, a tendency that is certain to accelerate in...
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