Below is China analyst David Cowhig’s translation of a chapter from Zhou Tianyong’s Breaking Through the Obstacles to Development (Á™ÅÁ†¥Âèë±ïÁöщΩìÂà∂ÊÄßÈöúÁ¢ç). This book was mentioned in Beijing takes on local-government mafias from Asia Times: Over the past several years, peasant incomes have slowly increased but consumption in rural China has been weak. While on the macroeconomic […]
Read MoreWufeng Li, director of Internet Bureau, Information Office of the State Council, launching the official site: Strong Nation Blog; via People’s Daily.
Read MoreFrom The News Week International: The phenomenon is itself a challenge to the old order. Since the communist revolution, Chinese writers have worked under the jurisdiction of writers’ associations, obligated to compose for the glory of the party. Now, for the first time, they are self-publishing in large numbers, and the state does not entirely […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Although just a fraction of all Chinese go online — and most who do play games, download music or gossip with friends — widespread Internet use in the nation’s largest cities and among the educated is changing the way Chinese learn about the world and weakening the Communist Party’s monopoly on […]
Read MoreA statement via Xinhuanet from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the National Press Club in apparent contradiction of the Pentagon’s recently released Quadrennial Defense Review: A top U.S. military leader has said that he believes the future for China and the United States has much more potential to be positive than […]
Read MoreTim Johnson of the San Jose Mercury News writes on polluted drinking water in China: As China gallops toward the modern era, access to safe and clean drinking water is beyond the reach of hundreds of millions of rural and urban people. Chemical spills, rampant pollution and poor stewardship of the land have tainted much […]
Read MoreFrom The News Week: If they’re not careful, Western tech companies could break up the Web. China has also proved that censorship pays: it has developed a successful model for how government and business can collaborate to...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The Washington Post obtained a list of keywords used by a Chinese blog service provider to flag offensive material. Of 236 items on the list, 18 were obscenities. The rest were related to politics or current affairs. Most words on this list can be posted on Chinese Web sites, but their […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via The Peking Duck: I have a few simple questions,” the congressman said, scowling at the four witnesses before him. “Can you say, in plain English, that you are ashamed of what you and the other companies have done?” The witnesses ” sacrificial lambs, really ” were representing four of […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via The Peking Duck: Suppose that Anne Frank had maintained an e-mail account while in hiding in 1944, and that the Nazis had asked Yahoo for cooperation in tracking her down. It seems, based on Yahoo’s behavior in China, that it might have complied. Granted, China is not remotely Nazi […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: A congressional hearing in Washington last week focused attention on the practices of four U.S. Internet companies doing business in China — Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems — amid mounting criticism that they are making money in the world’s second-largest market of Internet users at the expense […]
Read MoreFrom Wenhui Daily (in Chinese), via Press Interpreter: (Translation By Ramsi Woodcock and Carol Fang) State Intellectual Property Office head Tian Lipu was a guest in the Chinese government’s intellectual property online chatroom State Intellectual Property Office director Tian Lipu was a guest on the 15th of the Chinese government website, engaging in an online […]
Read MoreA woman on the street in Shanghai, by madameshutterfly.
Read MoreFrom The Observer: Recent adverse criticism of Google – particularly the lengthy attack last week in the financial journal Barron’s – has cost the internet search engine’s share price more than 25 per cent of its value over the past week. How significant is this? I’ve met Google’s founders and have followed its fortunes closely […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: With their big blue blinking eyes and their quirky personal websites, there is no denying the cuteness of the cartoon cops at the front line of China’s battle for control of the internet. But the role played by Jingjing and Chacha, the animated online icons recently introduced by police in the […]
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