From DallasNews.com (Free registration required): The Voice of America and Radio Free Asia send “millions and millions” of e-mails into China and Iran telling Internet users how to get around the censors blocking access to their Web sites, said Ken Berman, the information technology director for the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). But almost as […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News – Analysis and Viewpoint: Even though the Second World War ended in Asia 60 years ago, thousands of people marching through the streets of Beijing over this past weekend were not about to let go of their bitterness over Japanese war crimes committed before and during that war. For two days this […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Guardian Unlimited: China’s premier warned Japan on Tuesday that it isn’t ready for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council until it faces up to its history of aggression and wins its neighbors’ trust. Premier Wen Jiabao’s comments were the most direct Chinese declaration yet on Japan’s possible Security Council membership. […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: At the age of 34, Chen Jing seems to have it all: a comfortable income, a successful career as an executive at a mobile-phone company, lots of friends, her own Citro√´n car. But she doesn’t have a husband. And so, one recent afternoon, her parents secretly slipped down to a […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times, via A Glimpse of the World: The United States, ever quick to criticize China for human rights abuses, has of late been remarkably silent about Japan’s ethical lapses, current and historical. Japanese politicians and publishers have made a cottage industry of denying the 1937 Nanking Massacre in which the Japanese killed hundreds […]
Read MoreFrom Nanfang Daily (in Chinese) via Press Interpreter, translated by Roddy Flagg: This might be the most complicated Asian politics have ever been – not just because Asia today has so many new ‘powers’ but due to the constant guessing about the ‘triangular’ relationships between them. China, the US and Russia; or China, Japan and […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: BEIJING – As anti-Japanese protests continued for a third day in a row Tuesday, government censors imposed a news blackout on coverage of protests, signaling that Beijing was trying to contain further damage to already strained Sino-Japanese relations. None of the nation’s thousands of newspapers, television stations and news websites carried any […]
Read MoreFrom The Economist Intelligence Unit: Tensions between China and Japan, already heightened by incidents in recent months that have included a Chinese submarine’s incursion into Japanese waters and new Japanese defence guidelines, have risen sharply as a result of Chinese protests over a Japanese history textbook that many claim downplays Japanese atrocities in the region. […]
Read MoreFrom asahi.com: Increasingly anti-Japan demonstrations in China have sent bilateral ties to their lowest ebb since diplomatic relations were normalized in 1972. On Saturday, about 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Beijing. The protesters hurled stones and plastic water bottles at the Japanese Embassy and damaged Japanese restaurants. Demonstrations also spilled over to Guangzhou […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Two U.S.-based human rights groups have accused China of using the law heavy-handedly to clamp down on Muslim Uighurs in its restive western region of Xinjiang in the name of anti-separatism and counter-terrorism. Beijing’s “wholesale assault” on the Uighurs’ faith ranged from vetting imams and closing mosques to detaining thousands every year and […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: The resurgence of rightist forces in Japan is unsettling for its neighbors, not the least of which is mainland China. South Korea, another victim of Japan’s militarism during the last world war, is no less concerned. To most Chinese and Koreans, Japan’s recent revision of history text books that whitewashes the […]
Read MoreFrom The China Post: Japan’s revision of its history text books did not come at an opportune moment. The revised text that justifies Japan’s aggression during the last world war has triggered angry anti-Japanese protests in mainland China and South Korea, two principal victims of Japan’s militarism 60 years ago. Early this week, Beijing’s Foreign […]
Read MoreFrom Detroit Free Press: Internet postings decry police and courts. An unusual heated public debate has arisen in China over the wrongful convictions of two men for murder, one of whom was executed. The two cases have cast a spotlight on police using torture and beatings to extract confessions from criminal suspects, and the lack […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: When Yo-Yo Ma began work on the Silk Road Project seven years ago, the music world stood by with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. Why was Mr. Ma, known for his cello interpretations of Bach and Brahms, suddenly jumping on the world-music bandwagon? Would the involvement of musicians from […]
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