From the World War 4 Report: The Epoch Times, an international publication run by Chinese exiles harshly opposed to the People’s Republic government, ran a synopsis Oct. 15 of its ongoing coverage of the rural conflict in Taishi, a village in Guangdong now occupied by police following protests against municipal corruption. This story says much […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Overseas journalists working in Shanghai have issued a statement condemning the violence in Taishi and the attacks on pro-democracy activist Lu Banglie and on reporters covering the unrest. However, the statement from the 140-member Foreign Correspondents’ Club was only issued after heated debate among members over […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: On Thursday last week the Guardian carried the following note in its daily corrections column: “In a report headed ‘They beat him until he was lifeless‘: How democracy activist in China’s new frontline was left for dead after a brutal attack by a uniformed mob (front page, October 10) we said that […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: The situation in Taishi became a test case in China’s rural reform and urbanization process, but this week, much of the attention has instead shifted to the activities of foreign journalists in the area and to the responsibilities of the media. At the weekend, rumors surfaced on a number of blogs and bulletin […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Mr Lu was beaten when he took the Guardian’s Shanghai correspondent to Taishi, the focus of a campaign by locals and civil rights activists to unseat the village chief, who they have accused of corruption… Mr Lu said yesterday that he knew it was dangerous, and that he was used to the […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Now that Mammon has replaced Mao, corruption is fuelling the rural inequality opened up by migration to the cities The case of Lu Banglie, who was beaten up by a mob near Taishi in southern China – as reported in yesterday’s Guardian – is not unusual. There has been a rapidly growing […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Political reform is likely to be high on the agenda of a closed-door meeting of China’s communist leaders today amid growing strains between a population demanding more rights and a bureaucracy increasingly using illegal means to maintain its grip on power. Like most of the topics for discussion during the central committee’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The severe beating and possible murder of a grassroots activist in southern China at the weekend has highlighted the deep-seated problems in implementing the limited democratic reforms allowed at the local level by the central government in Beijing. Lu Banglie was dragged from a car by a small gang manning roadblocks […]
Read MoreA working Chinese investigative journalist, Yao Haiying, has blogged his thoughts about Lu Banglie, who he knew as a fellow Hubei native. Here is a quick translation of part of his post (original Chinese below): I don’t want to say too much, after all Lu Banglie is just a small person in China. But he […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China’s tough handling of recent protests by villagers in Taishi, southern Guangdong province, has thrown into fresh doubt its claims to be introducing genuine democracy “from the bottom up”. Direct elections of local officials by almost a million villages across the country have in recent years been widely welcomed as a possible […]
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