The defense plea entered by lawyers for activist Tan Zuoren at his trial on August 12 is circulating, though it is often being quickly erased. Nonetheless, many, including Tan’s lawyer Xia Lin, continue to discuss it. CDT...
Read MoreFrom Economic Observer Online: The re-emergence of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) as a regulatory body with teeth, is an indicator that there has been a shift in the Chinese government’s macroeconomic...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s environmental ministry has won its latest battle with influential state-owned power firms after forcing two of them to stop hydropower projects in the southwest province of Yunnan, an official said....
Read MoreFrom AFP: Several dams on China’s mighty Yellow River are close to collapse just a few years after they were built amid concerns that over 40 percent of the nation’s reservoirs are unsafe, state media has said....
Read MoreFrom AP: China’s environment ministry has suspended construction of two ambitious hydropower dams in the upper Yangtze River region, saying the projects were illegal because they were started without necessary...
Read MoreA proposed dam at Tiger Leaping Gorge, a scenic spot that has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, has been met with fierce resistance from environmentalists and local residents. In response, the government has moved...
Read MoreHere is an assessment of the Tibet situation by Zhang Boshu (张博树) of the CASS Philosophy Institute in Beijing, translated for CDT by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous: Zhang was born in Beijing in 1955. He received an MA...
Read MoreAnother score for Internet users and the online press for prompting an apology, sort of, from a local government for cronyism in the promotion of four positions. Translated by CDT from the Beijing News and others. It all started...
Read MoreXiluodu (Ê∫™Ê¥õÊ∏°) hydropower station, a 5-billion-yuan mega project on the Jinsha River (ÈáëÊ≤ôʱü), has been hailed as the world’s third largest hydro development, second only to the Three Gorges Dam in China. Despite all the fanfare, thousands of the dislocated haven’t seen government promises delivered, but instead have seen poverty and in some cases fleeing […]
Read MoreThe folk tradition of making up shunkouliu, doggerel satire known among Sinologists as “slippery jingles”, thrives today in the Chinese vernacular – mostly in the form of politically tinged gripes about social...
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