Paul Mooney wrote on Asia Times online: “As intellectuals, activists and netizens continue to defy Chinese Communist Party efforts to maintain its monopoly on the truth, freedom of expression is coming under fierce pressure not seen in recent years. The party’s determination to fetter them was revealed on Monday when three outspoken intellectuals were detained […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “More Japanese people believe Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister, should continue to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine in defiance of Chinese pressure than believe he should stop, in a poll that reflects Japan’s hardening attitude towards China. According to a survey by NHK, the public broadcaster, 46 per cent of the Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times, by Colin Galloway: “China has never been known as the friendly face of the Internet. Police and government agencies go to great lengths to control how citizens get online and how they act when they do, actively persecuting dissidents, closing thousands of Internet cafes, and creating a vast and technically dazzling cyber-edifice […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Chinese authorities briefly detained at least three liberal intellectuals, sources close to the three said on Tuesday, as part of an intensified crackdown on government critics. The Communist Party, which has monopolized politics in China since 1949, recently ordered newspapers and magazines not to give publicity to prolific author Yu Jie and five […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo News: “Climate change could cut China’s food production 10 percent by 2050, said an official report at a major UN conference here. Given current conditions, the damage would hit China between 2030 and 2050. ”
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via China Study Group: “By day, 29-year-old Lu Yunfei is a Beijing-based IT manager but in his spare time he is an anti-Japanese activist. Along with 100 friends, he operated the China Patriots’ Alliance website, an online forum recently closed down by authorities. He and others who share his […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo News: ” Chinese President Hu Jintao has reassigned allies to a series of top government posts in a move analysts see as another step in his consolidation of power weeks after he became China’s powerful military chief. ” Also, here is today’s Chinese Newspaper Highlights on Yahoo News, via China National […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: “Chinese Rights Defenders (CRD), a network of Chinese citizens who are committed to safeguarding rights and their international volunteer supporters, is assisting in a petition campaign that seeks to bring to justice those responsible,” the group said in a statement Tuesday. It also called on the international community to support the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: ” Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) suffered a surprise upset on Saturday when it and its allies failed to win the majority of legislative seats that had been widely predicted. The DPP and its smaller ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), managed to win 101 of the total 225 seats up […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press: “China and Russia will hold their first joint military exercise next year, the Chinese government said Monday, as President Hu Jintao called for an expansion of the rapidly growing alliance between the former Cold War rivals. ”
Read MoreFrom Reuters: “Chinese authorities have detained liberal author Yu Jie, two sources close to him said on Monday, in what appeared to be part of a government crackdown on intellectuals. The Communist Party, which has monopolised politics in China since 1949, recently intensified its crackdown, ordering newspapers and magazines not to give publicity to Yu […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: “Beijing Media Corp (BMC), the advertising sales unit of Beijing Youth Daily, the mainland’s second largest newspaper in terms of advertising revenue, has attracted the backing of South African media group Naspers, which will subscribe to about 40 per cent of BMC’s HK$905 million initial public offering (IPO).” Thanks to Danwei for […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “The UN World Food Programme is urging China to become a bigger donor instead of a recipient of its aid. The call comes as the United Nations organisation phases out its aid programmes to China next year. In the past quarter of a century the World Food Programme has helped feed 35 million […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “The Chinese Communist party has reason to be satisfied with recent election results – not on the undemocratic mainland, of course, but in the outlying territories of Hong Kong and Taiwan. In Hong Kong’s legislative elections in September, democratic parties failed to make as much headway as they had hoped, thus […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “Liu Chuanzhi, chairman of Lenovo, the Chinese computer company, clearly recalls his early tentative dealings with International Business Machines, the mighty US technology group, in 1985. Mr Liu and a small group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences had only the year before ‘plunged into the sea’ of business […]
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