A round-up of video items one China’s role in the Burmese government’s crackdown on protestors, starting with South African peace activist Desmond Tutu‘s threat to boycott the Beijing Olympics if China fails to support the freedom for people in Burma, issued at a press conference in Gothenburg, Sweden on September 28th.
Read MoreFrom Beijing Newspeak blog: … this article by a Chinese journalist, who works for the Global Times, on his recent “special assignment” to Burma. It has been translated by a good friend of mine Mark Binnersley, a journalist in Beijing. Obviously Xinhua News Agency has a branch in Yangon but isn’t allowed to make much […]
Read MoreFrom Crossroads blog, (thanks to Shanghaiist): The Unseen China is a 5 part Youtube series that I found recently and highly recommend. For those of us in China, it is sometimes easy to be blinded by the reflections coming from all those shiny new buildings, however just past the major roads of Beijing and Shanghai […]
Read MoreFrom The Angry Chinese Blogger‘s blog: While China is indeed becoming more and more accessible to foreigners, particularly those of a free spending nature, China is still, for all intensive purposes, a complete mystery to most foreigner. As such, it is common for non-Chinese to harbor a great many misconceptions about China. Some of which […]
Read MoreIn this article on The Christian Science Monitor, reporter Simon Montlake explains China’s role in influencing the current crisis in Burma. Having violently suppressed last week’s monk-led protests, Burma’s military rulers are now trying to deflect international condemnation and calls for reform. How far they succeed in resisting while keeping a lid on further unrest […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: In the early hours of June 4, 1989, I was on Chang’an Street, just west of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, when I saw Chinese soldiers open fire and kill many of my fellow protesters. I barely escaped the same fate. The horror of that day is seared in my mind like […]
Read MoreElizabeth C. Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, was interviewed by Toni Johnson. From Council of Foreign Relations website: China is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gas but is not subject to binding emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol. But given China […]
Read MorePolicemen check tourists’ luggage in Tiananmen Square in Beijing as the the National Day holiday approaches. Otherwise known as Golden Week, the seven-day National Day holiday begins October 1. [Image source: Duowei.com]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: In a bold jab before a key meeting of China’s Communists, a 90-year-old former secretary to Mao Zedong has urged the Party to embrace democracy, saying that only political freedom can end instability and corruption. Li Rui issued his demand for citizens’ rights and legal shackles on Party power in a Beijing magazine, […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party passed a resolution Sunday asserting the island’s separate identity from rival China and calling for a referendum on Taiwan’s sovereignty. The resolution for a “normal country” ” passed after heated debate at a boisterous party congress ” calls for general use of “Taiwan” as the island’s name, without […]
Read MoreBurma’s closest ally, China, has made its most strident call yet for the military regime to end a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. From BBC: After talks by telephone with his UK counterpart Gordon Brown, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Beijing hoped peace would return to Burma quickly… The BBC’s Chris Hogg, in neighbouring […]
Read MoreEven though China has strictly implemented its one child policy for years, at least in Hunan province you can have more children if you’re rich. From People’s Daily: A central China province where almost 2,000 officials and celebrities have been exposed for breaking the country’s family planning laws is to raise fines on wealthy couples […]
Read MoreVegetable vendors set up outside a factory in Haizhou, by Xie Xian he Luobote
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: On the matter of Taiwan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has gone too far, even for the US State Department. The matter began innocuously enough. In March, the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru deposited with the UN secretary-general Taiwan’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against […]
Read MorePresident of Shandong University of Science and Technology, Wang Chunqiu, reviewed the students’ military parade last week, which inspired different opinions online. In recent days netizens have dug out more photos showing that many other university presidents have done the same thing. One netizen comments that “the reason why university presidents are keen on military […]
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