From The Japan Times Online: At a time when Beijing is upbraiding Tokyo for its depiction in history textbooks of the invasion and occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s — and used it as a reason for excluding Japan from the United Nations Security Council — it has exposed its own politicization of […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: The Hollywood blockbuster “Memoirs of a Geisha” is only the latest film to fall victim to Chinese censors. Lately, the overbearing censors have increased their crackdowns on films, the Internet and newspapers. But in this case, they seem to be sending a warning to three famous actresses. When Chinese actress Vicky Zhao […]
Read MoreFrom Power and Interest News Rreport: Though both sides are working to expand and deepen economic cooperation, there is as yet no strategic congruence between the two giants. Indeed, the issues that bind the two countries together are also the issues that divide them and fuel their rivalry because they have different positions in the […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Peter Zantal is in charge of globalization at the Port of New York. His hands are more than full. Every week, 24 ships disgorge thousands of containers, most of them arriving from Hong Kong and Shanghai via the Panama Canal. Their cargos are unloaded within 18 hours. Cellphones, refrigerators and computers – […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Beijing has underlined its continuing anger at Tokyo by authorising the publication of an article in an official newspaper likening the actions of Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, to someone who purposely eats “rat excrement”. The article in the People’s Daily, the Communist party’s mouthpiece, used the analogy to attack Mr […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: LAST week’s Chinese New Year holiday brought, literally, a rare breath of fresh air to Hong Kong. With thousands of mainland factories temporarily closed, the choking toxic smog that regularly envelops the city cleared briefly. As it did, a question struck me: what if China – or, more precisely, its domestic economy […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: In the latest case of unrest afflicting the Chinese countryside, at least 15 people were wounded, some seriously, when a gun battle broke out in a land dispute between two villages in the southern province of Guangdong. Residents said tension that had been brewing for years intensified in the fall, […]
Read MoreFrom Ohmynews: Today’s China is a capitalist society in almost all respects except for the political governance of the Communist Party. It is commonly understood that China, ranked last year as the world’s 5th largest economy, is really more capitalistic than any capitalist country, while outwardly claiming to be a socialist nation. Therefore, Marxism-Leninism, the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s crackdown on domestic non-governmental organisations has forced an AIDS activist to quit the group he set up after international funding dried up and some volunteers resigned in the face of intimidation. Hu Jia’s activism set him on a collision course with the Communist Party, which has stepped up curbs on NGOs, the […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: CHINA’S top environmental watchdog is demanding immediate reporting of pollution accidents to avoid a repeat of the disastrous toxic spill on the Songhua River. The State Environmental Protection Administration said it had received 45 accident reports, mostly water pollution, since last November when an explosion in a chemical plant on the Songhua […]
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Read MoreFrom the Age, via Asia Media: Angry villagers in China’s Shandong province have rioted in support of a blind activist who has been under house arrest for campaigning against forced sterilisations and abortions. Chen Guangcheng, a peasant blind since birth who taught himself the law initially to fight for disabled rights, last year began exposing […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: The deputy editor of a Chinese newspaper died of liver and kidney failure after he was severely beaten by police enraged by reports in his newspaper about their work. Wu Xianghu, deputy editor of the Taizhou Evening News, was 41. Fellow journalists at his newspaper and his widow confirmed his death but […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The BBC World Service has launched a website targeted at the mainland Chinese market, offering English-language training and news that is unlikely to upset Beijing’s internet censors. China has long blocked access to the British broadcaster’s main Chinese website, www.BBCChinese.com, which yesterday led with a story about US forecasts that Beijing’s […]
Read MoreFrom a Christian Science Monitor editorial: Web giant Google and incendiary “Muhammad cartoons” have more in common than 2.7 million search hits that phrase produces. Google – which self-censors in order to do business in China – and the toon tumult point to a need for smart sensitivity in exercising freedom of expression. Media such […]
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