Chinese Netizens On The Hunt For Truth – Pang Li

From China.org.cn: The Internet, as a relatively young form of mass communication, has radically changed Chinese people’s lives and their ways of looking at the world. There has emerged a trend where in Internet debates Chinese netizens, whether they agree or disagree with what they read, will seriously and professionally try to find proof supporting […]

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Hong Kong Votes In A Symbolic By-election – John Ruwitch

From Reuters: Hong Kongers voted in a legislative by-election on Sunday, in a poll which has been likened to a referendum on democracy in the city that returned to Chinese rule 10 years ago. The contest pits two charismatic former civil servants against each other — Anson Chan and Regina Ip — and has been […]

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Tibet Train Carries China Troops – BBC

From BBC News: China’s high-speed, high-altitude railway to Tibet has carried troops to the regional capital, Lhasa, for the first time, state media has reported. The Xinhua news agency cited unnamed sources in the People’s Liberation Army as saying the railway would become “a main option” for transporting soldiers. Analysts say the move is likely […]

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Is Web2.0 a Wash for Free Speech in China? – Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon gives an update on the current status of the “Internet revolution” in China. From her RConversation blog: Contrary to misperceptions by many outsiders, the situation in China today is not “the people vs. the government.” Chinese people themselves – not only regulatory authorities or people who manage internet and telecoms businesses but also […]

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What’s China Reading? – Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

In the United Airlines Hemispheres magazine, Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about current trends in the Chinese publishing industry: It would be misleading, though, to imply that Chinese reading and publishing habits now simply mirror European and American ones. There are key differences. For example, books based on Web ventures have made a bigger impact in China […]

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China, Japan Talks Aimed at Boosting Relations – AP

From AP via msnbc.msn.com: China and Japan inaugurate talks on trade and economic issues Saturday that are intended to bolster the recent warming in their long uneasy relations. The half-day of talks and a weekend of meetings bring together the countries’ ministers holding foreign affairs, finance and economic portfolios to discuss a range of issues […]

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MI5 Alert on China’s Cyberspace Spy Threat – Rhys Blakely et al

From The Times: In an unprecedented alert, the Director-General of MI5 sent a confidential letter to 300 chief executives and security chiefs at banks, accountants and legal firms this week warning them that they were under attack from “Chinese state organisations”. It is believed to be the first time that the Government has directly accused […]

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Wounds of the Revolution – David Brooks

The New York Times’ columnist David Brooks writes about Internet entrepreneur Edward Tian as an example of the generation who came of age during the Cultural Revolution: By the early 1990s, Deng Xiaoping’s reforms were beginning to transform China, the Internet was beginning to transform the world and Tian seized the historical moment. He and […]

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Sex Now the Main Cause of HIV in China – Henry Sanderson

From AP, via The National Geographic: Sex has overtaken drug use as the main cause of HIV infections in China, leading to worries the disease may spread outside of high-risk groups into the general population, according to experts and a report released this week, ahead of World AIDS Day this Saturday. There were an estimated […]

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