From Reuters.com: About 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens with one government official calling the situation “anarchy.” The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 450 miles northeast of Beijing, was one of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens, sources said on Wednesday. The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 725 km (450 miles) northeast of Beijing, was one of a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, setting fire to cars, looting a supermarket and wounding six police officers, a local shopkeeper and domestic press said on Wednesday. The violence in the eastern city of Chizhou was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist […]
Read MoreCDT was sent the following account of the Shalan flash flood (Note: The author, Xiaorong, is not CDT Guest Blogger Li Xiaorong). The essay is based on an article written by a Chinese journalist, which was posted on a BBS but...
Read MoreCourtesy of Asia Media, several new stories that highlight the challenges and opportunities facing the Chinese media: The Taipei Times covers two widely-reported instances of government censorship: the crackdown on university...
Read More(JUST UPDATED) From Sheng Cuihua’s email: From March 16, some of the most influential University BBS (Bulletin Board System) in China, including the one of Tsinghua University (smth.org), Peking University (ytht.org) and...
Read MoreFrom ABS-CBN.com: “Japan said Monday it would issue a visa as scheduled for former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to visit for sightseeing despite angry protests from China. Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have already been chilled by a string of disputes, including one over Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s regular visits to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, where […]
Read MoreHow scared should corporate China be of Hu Shuli? asks The Economist. Dubbed the most dangerous woman in China, Hu Shuli is the managing editor of Caijing a business magazine that “combines investigative reporting with the sort of critical commentary that a decade ago would have landed its journalists in jail”. ¤
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