From Yahoo! News: “When he entered office two years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao quickly raised expectations among people looking for kinder, gentler policies from Beijing. During the SARS (news – web sites) epidemic in early 2003, Hu seemed to give China’s state-owned media more room to report honestly on the country’s health problems. At […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: “China is launching an assault on gambling websites as part of a sweeping campaign to prevent officials from betting away public money, state media reported. The Ministry of Information Industry, the top agency in charge of the Internet, will tighten supervision of online content and crack down hard on offenders, […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via China National News: “A high-ranking mainland official told a visiting delegation of influential Chinese Americans that Taiwan independence threatened Asia-Pacific security. State-controlled media quoted Councilor Tang Jiaxuan as saying Tuesday that separatist attempts by Taiwanese independence forces were a realistic threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and the Asia […]
Read MoreDavid Shambaugh, director of the China Policy Program at the George Washington University wrote an op-ed about Zhao, his legacy, and the opportunties for the current leadership in today’s International Herald Tribune. His article is entitles “A legacy Beijing would do well to embrace.”
Read MoreFrom The Asian Age: “The death Monday of the former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang seems unlikely to spark an upsurge of reformist sentiment like the one that followed the death of his popular predecessor, Hu Yaobang, in April 1989 ” events that led directly to the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown. Yet with or […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “China has stepped up controls on dissidents in an attempt to prevent public mourning for ousted Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, whose death on Monday has sparked fears among the leadership of possible...
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: Beijing has warned against “anti-government forces” taking advantage of the death of former party chief Zhao Ziyang to stir up trouble for the administration. In an internal circular relayed last weekend to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) units nationwide, the leadership called on cadres and party members to raise their guard against efforts by […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: “China will need to import substantially more coal in order to cope with an expansion in coal-fired power generating capacity, according to a recent report by investment bank Morgan Stanley. Coal imports will “double in every two years for the foreseeable future,” predicted Andy Xie, an economist with the bank. China’s coal […]
Read MoreFrom China National News, these are headlines on major Chinese newspapers today.
Read MoreFrom World Socialist Website: “In the lead up to the UN-sponsored tsunami summit in Jakarta on January 6, the Beijing bureaucracy announced, with considerable fanfare, an unprecedented assistance package totalling $83 million for the victims of the disaster. President Hu Jintao told the press that the Chinese government would provide ‘any possible aid in its […]
Read MoreFrom the Washingtonpost: “China’s Communist leadership convened a series of emergency meetings Monday to manage the consequences of the death of a disgraced party leader and confront the legacy of an event it has tried to put behind it, the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. According to journalists and other Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom Newsday.com: “The White House on Tuesday showered praise on ousted Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, calling the former Communist Party chief who died on Monday “a man of moral courage.” The effusive comments, unusual even for a White House well accustomed to issuing laudatory statements about those who have died, were in stark contrast to […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: “State media marked the passing of ousted leader Zhao Ziyang, once one of China’s leading reformers, with only brief mentions on Tuesday, while eulogies from the public were erased by censors from Web sites. Reflecting the Communist Party’s determination to keep the once popular leader in obscurity in death, only […]
Read MoreOpenNet Initiative, a group of university researchers just published their latest study on domestic blog providers in China. Chinese blogsphere has been growing rapidly, but the study gives a outline of what censors had done. Here is their report: “Weblogs, most often called “blogs” have become one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: “China is defending its 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Tiananmen Square following the death this week of purged Communist Party leader. The comments came as the Chinese government downplayed the life and career of the former leader because of fears that his passing might trigger new protests. The death of 85-year-old […]
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