From China Media Project: Ever since President Hu Jintao’s major media policy speech back on June 20, 2008, party leaders have been obsessed with “public opinion channeling,” or yulun yindao (舆论引导), the banner term of what we...
Read MoreFrom the Time magazine: Key Posting Hu’s ascent was greatly enhanced by his appointment in 1988 to Party Chief of the restive Tibet Autonomous Region, where he oversaw a political crackdown the following year. In this...
Read MorePresident Obama arrived in Shanghai earlier and has planned a town hall meeting with students. The White House has set up a bilingual interface to stream the event and will also stream it on the White House website and via...
Read MoreFrom AFP: The Dalai Lama on Wednesday reached out to China, saluting a Beijing-based novelist who has defied China by seeking reconciliation with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. On a visit to Washington, the Dalai Lama...
Read MoreThe following list contains keywords that propaganda authorities, in one day, reportedly ordered search engines to block, filter, or promote. In search engine lingo, the “white list” is words or phrases that must be...
Read MoreFollowing the weekend’s unrest in Xinjiang, the current censorship and blocking of websites appears to be the most severe in history. Nevertheless, many Chinese netizens are still managing to access outside information and...
Read MoreThe official death toll of the violence in Xinjiang in yesterday’s riots stands at 140, with more than 800 injured. From ABC.net.au: The streets of Urumqi now appear to be calm, but the evidence of a bitter day of struggle...
Read MoreThe ongoing saga on the battle on the government requiring pre-installed software for filtering new computers in China (the software dubbed the Green Dam) by July 1, and the netizens and companies that oppose the infringement,...
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: China’s ramped up criticism of Europe’s embrace of the Dalai Lama hasn’t effectively blunted popular support here for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. And European...
Read MoreJames Fallows at The Atlantic has written several posts about foreign media censorship and heavy police presence in Tiananmen Square on the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. June 4 news...
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