From RConversation: On a recent trip to Beijing I visited Liu Xiaoyuan, a lawyer who is suing the Chinese web portal and blog-hosting service, Sohu, for censoring several of his blog posts. He wrote about our conversation here. The International Herald Tribune has an Associated Press article about him this week here. Liu argues that […]
Read MoreElizabeth C. Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, was interviewed by Toni Johnson. From Council of Foreign Relations website: China is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gas but is not subject to binding emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol. But given China […]
Read MoreThis is my OP-ED piece on the San Francisco Chronicle: Development of the Internet in China is the result of government efforts to promote a knowledge-based economy in a global environment – all as part of a master plan to preserve the power of the Chinese Communist Party. The unintended result, however, is the ability […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: The seventeenth congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opens on 15 October 2007. Ahead of this major, five-day event, and in line with China’s media regulations, strict controls are already in place to limit the number of “negative” stories in the news. Under orders from the party’s central propaganda department, chief editors […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at how provinces are failing to implement policies set by the central government to help AIDS patients and stem the spread of the disease: They say the gap between Beijing’s official position and the practices of local officials is the result of a political system that makes it difficult to impose […]
Read MoreChina gazers oohed and ahhed last month when five major Communist Party papers ran Sunday editions with nearly identical front pages. Same layout, same photos, same headlines, same sub-headers, and same copy – though...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China reported 18,543 new cases of HIV/AIDS in the first half of this year, state media said, near the number for the whole of 2006. Drug abuse was the main cause of new infections, Xinhua news agency quoted Han Mengjie, an official with AIDS Control Work Committee of the State Council, as saying […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Communist China has introduced new rules that appear aimed at controlling the selection of the next Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual head. Most Tibetans believe that eminent monks, such as the Dalai Lama, are reincarnated after death. China, which governs Tibet, will now have the final say over who can be selected […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: There are conflicting reports about whether a test run of traffic controls in Beijing less than one year before the 2008 Summer Olympics has been effective in improving air quality in the Chinese capital. Chinese state media reported Tuesday that the city’s overall air quality improved during the four-day test, which removed […]
Read MoreReuters reports that Chinese journalists covering a recent bridge collapse in Hunan were beaten by “local thugs.” Another report (in Chinese) on overseas news website Duowei.com revealed that those “thugs” are local Director of Agriculture Bureau and his staff. From Reuters: Chinese journalists probing a bridge collapse that killed dozens of people said they were […]
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