As part of an article called “China’s media censorship rattling world image” (link), the the Christian Science Monitor has interviewed former Freezing Point editor Li Datong. Li says: I’m not saying we don’t want stability. We do. But our understanding of stability is very different from communist officials. We want a calm river of society […]
Read MoreThe following was posted on Soho Xiaobao BBS (link) (translation by CDT): This is a collection of twenty independent reports of real cases [of suicide resulting from inability to pay school fees]. Every year, from July to...
Read MoreFrom the Independent (link): The frightened figure in the picture is a Chinese opera star. His hair is grasped tightly in a Red Guard’s fist and he is being denounced during the Cultural Revolution, the ideological frenzy which destroyed millions of lives in China between 1966 and 1976. The image is one of hundreds of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Pope Benedict XVI named his first new cardinals on Wednesday, 15 in all. They include the bishop of Hong Kong, an outspoken critic of China’s rulers, and Archbishop Sean Patrick O’Malley of Boston, appointed two years ago after the sex abuse scandal there forced the resignation of Cardinal Bernard […]
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from an article appearing on the website of the Ministry of Information Industry (link) (translated by CDT): On Feb. 21, the Ministry of Information Industry initiated the “Sunshine Green Internet Project” series of activities. Vice Minister Xi Guohua said in the kick-off meeting that the formal launch of the “Sunshine […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Over the past year, China has emerged as Yangon’s most important ally, even though there were tensions. Recent important deals between Beijing and Yangon for oil and gas extraction rights in western Myanmar seem to have helped mend some of the problems between the two countries. A gas pipeline is to be […]
Read MoreFrom The Age (link): China’s international standing is almost as bad as it was after Tiananmen Square, a leading human rights monitor has warned. Following media crackdowns and the virtual end of early release for political prisoners, John Kamm, one of a few human rights monitors whom Beijing deals with, yesterday called on President Hu […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): China has shut down two websites vocal in criticising market-oriented reforms amid a Communist Party crackdown on expression. The Asian nation has some of the strictest web controls in the world, with rigid registration procedures for websites and a special police force monitoring its 110 million web surfers round the clock. It […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC (link): The media scene in China has come a long way since the days when revolutionary slogans blared from loudspeakers in paddy-fields. But today’s Communist Party bosses are as determined as ever to maintain control over every word published or broadcast in the world’s most populous country. A media clampdown – the […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week, via MSNBC (link): To some corporate executives and China-watchers, Portman’s comments heralded a new, tough stance on the part of the Bush Administration that, if not handled carefully, could set off a trade war that ultimately could damage both American companies and the U.S. economy. But the reality of the situation is […]
Read MoreFrom Slate (link): In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Bill Gates dropped an interesting idea about how the U.S. government might help businesses avoid becoming accessories to political repression in China: “I think something like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has been a resounding success in terms of very clearly outlining what companies […]
Read MoreCleaning up water pollution in Mudanjiang city, Heilongjiang province, via sina.com.cn.
Read MoreFrom the Three Gorges Probe (link): China’s top environmental agency today issued a groundbreaking set of guidelines on the public’s right to participate in decision-making on large construction projects such as big dams. The State Environmental Protection Administration’s highly anticipated new measures, which take effect on March 18, are explicitly aimed at ushering in an […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): A Chinese journalist, jailed for splashing paint over a portrait of Mao Zedong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, is due to be freed on Wednesday, his mother and a rights activist said, ahead of President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States. The release of Yu Dongyue, who rights groups say […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia (link): In the fall of 1991, at the age of 18, Yiyun Li reported to the barren city of Xinyang for a year in the Chinese army. The government had decreed that any student bound for Beijing’s Peking University, as Li was, first had to complete a period of military training and […]
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