From Guardian Unlimited: Japan’s foreign ministry yesterday lodged “strong protests” against China after admitting that a diplomat in its Shanghai consulate committed suicide, allegedly after being blackmailed by Chinese spies over his affair with a bar worker.The ministry did not disclose the diplomat’s death until the story was broken this week by the Japanese weekly […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: A climate of fear has gripped a South China fishing town as villagers evade patrols and defy a police campaign to encourage them to denounce their neighbours in the wake of a bloody crackdown two weeks ago. A cordon of checkpoints has virtually isolated the town of Dongzhou, where police put down protests […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: Chinese intellectuals have demanded an inquiry after police shot and killed protesters in a south China village, comparing the violence to the military crackdown on Tiananmen Square demonstrators in 1989.In an open letter posted on the Internet, more than 50 scholars and intellectuals called on authorities to publish the names of the dead, […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: When Chinese riot police fired on rural protesters last week in the southern village of Dongzhou, many China watchers instantly drew parallels to the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. But the shootings in Dongzhou — which left at least three protesters dead and eight injured — have much more […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The protest which triggered a deadly clash between police and farmers in a village in Guangdong, southern China, last week was initially much like thousands of confrontations across the country in recent years. The villagers and their families were demonstrating to demand higher compensation for land seized from them to build […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside. Villagers said that as many as 50 other residents […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: But little was said or done to alert the rural communities in numerous towns and villages along the Songhua between Jilin and Harbin about the dangerous chemicals flowing in the water. The authorities have offered no estimates on how many people rely on the river for drinking water. After the news […]
Read MoreBehind closed doors on Nov.18, Communist Party potentates marked the 90th birthday of late party chief Hu Yaobang, whose untimely death spirited to life to the Tiananmen Square protests (see Reuters coverage). But the decision...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via The International Herald Tribune: Despite strong internal opposition, China’s Communist Party later this week will officially restore the reputation of a liberal-leaning party leader whose death in 1989 helped spark pro-democracy protests, according to people informed about the plans. The party has not publicly honored the late leader, Hu […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao is as much of an enigma today as he was when he rose to power almost three years ago, still keeping the world guessing whether he is a closet liberal or an ultra-conservative. The 62-year-old Hu, who doubles as state president, has sent mixed signals in recent […]
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