The Strong China Forum, run by the People’s Daily website, is a very dynamic online forum. Though it is a closely monitored and vetted online community, it also has hundreds of thousands of registered users and thousands of active participants, commenting on and debating current affairs. During the 17th Party Congress, the site has highlighted […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times gives an overview of the lead-up to the Party Congress, to begin tomorrow: Control and secrecy are paramount. Nearly a year before the congress, the propaganda ministry distributed its list of forbidden media topics for 2007, which included judicial corruption, lifestyles of the wealthy and extramarital affairs. Several months ago, state […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese President Hu Jintao is one of the most powerful men in the world. He leads more than a billion people, runs the world’s largest army, controls the world’s fourth biggest economy, and, if he wants, he can fire off the first weapons in a global nuclear war.
Read MoreFrom Time: Next summer’s Olympics will showcase a China of glittering skyscrapers and overstuffed store shelves. But the government responsible for this economic miracle continues to imprison political activists, restrict religious freedom, tightly control the media and Internet, and protect its citizens only haphazardly from pollution and unsafe food and consumer products, a congressional panel […]
Read MoreFrom 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...
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