Following rumours of a coup by allies of dethroned Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, Xinhua reported on Saturday that authorities have taken action against a number of websites and individuals involved in the rumours’...
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch recently released its 22nd annual World Report, whose 676 pages include a country-by-country overview of human rights developments around the world and a series of essays on themes including the Arab Spring...
Read MoreThe Atlantic’s Max Fisher asks whether the implicit pact between Party and people in China is unravelling China’s unspoken promise to its citizens — stay in line, and we’ll maintain economic growth...
Read MoreWhile uprisings in the Middle East were an immediate trigger, roots of the current crackdown in China can also be seen further back, in the unrest in Tibet in 2008 and Xinjiang in 2009. At the Financial Times, Jamil Anderlini...
Read MoreChina staged anti-terrorism mock drills with neighboring Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in a region of Western Xinjiang suspected by the Chinese government of harboring separatists. This one-day drill was held by the Shanghai...
Read MoreAs news of the apparent detention of activist and artist Ai Weiwei sends shock waves through the world, another artist, Wu Yuren, has been released on parole after ten months in jail. A sentence has not yet been handed down in...
Read MoreThe governor of Tibet has spoken out against the Dalai Lama’s remarks that he may not be reincarnated upon his death, and says that he must respect Buddhist religious traditions, with the approval of the Communist Party....
Read MoreTwenty Uighurs who fled China in the wake of rioting in Xinjiang in July 2009 were deported from Cambodia a year ago while waiting to receive asylum from the U.S. Since returning to China, they have not been accounted for by the...
Read MoreInternet scholar Hu Yong writes about the power of microblogs in China, most recently after Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize was announced: Despite this news blackout, China’s blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the sentencing of three Uighur webmasters: Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their role in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3...
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