AP reported that the US government is continuing to discourage China from establishing government telecommunications standards: “Now, with China testing competing systems and moving toward its own standard known as TD-SCDMA U.S. policy is to urge governments in China and elsewhere to let companies choose freely. ‘I never met a carrier that didn’t express a […]
Read MoreToday the OpenNet Initiative released a new report about Internet censorship in China. While a number of studies have established that China blocks search results about certain political, cultural, and religious subjects (see this report, for example), the new study takes the investigation a step further by looking at China’s filtering of the Google cache. […]
Read MoreThe power struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin is becoming increasingly heated and open, according to a report in today’s IHT: “Tension between Jiang, the country’s semi-retired senior leader who still heads the military, and Hu, who replaced Jiang as Communist Party chief and president nearly two years ago, has begun influencing debates on […]
Read MoreAP reports: “China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants in coming years to help relieve severe electricity shortages. The government hopes to rely on nuclear energy to meet four percent of its electricity demand by 2020. ” (via: Kron4.com)
Read MoreLinguist Eswn has compiled the list of filtered Internet keywords into quick groupings and provided partial translation to help non-Chinese speakers understand the pattern of banned topics (introduced with a quote from Foucault). The full post is here.
Read MoreA South China Morning Post article (via Asia Media) argues that public pressure and online activism, especially from prominent lawyers and intellectuals, led to the release of Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong. The story quotes a Sun Yat-sen University professor: “Professor Yuan said intellectuals had taught mainland leaders a lesson about contemporary society, which […]
Read MoreFrom Primezone.com: “The National Research Council of Canada – Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), with the support of the National Research Council of Canada – Canadian Police Research Centre (NRC-CPRC), the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, and the Beijing Municipal Government, are jointly organizing a security technology mission to China […]
Read MoreIt is an open secret that all Chinese Internet hosting services, including wireless and instant messenger services, filter user communication through key word blocking mechanisms. But overly vague and broad Chinese internet laws...
Read MoreAccording to a report in the Straits Times, a defense lawyer for Southern Metropolis News journalists, is now hopeful that the paper’s two journalists who remain in prison will soon be released following the weekend’s release of editor Cheng Yizhong: “‘We’ve seen a change of attitude by the local prosecutor. Local law executors can still […]
Read MoreThe Asia Times (Chinese) have found out that a photo published by Xinhua two weeks ago showing a one-on-one handshake between a frail Deng Xiaoping (with daughter Deng Rong’s help) and Hu Jintao has been doctored. The original photo was published days later by Liaowangdongfang (also a Xinhua subsidiary) showing the same Hu-Deng handshake but […]
Read MoreIn a new report, Refugees International says that the Chinese government has launched a crackdown on North Korean refugees, deporting increasing numbers back to their home country. According to a report in the Korea Times: “Chinese authorities even offer a reward of around $16 to those who turn in North Korean defectors… Among local ethnic […]
Read MoreWhile China takes the Olympic limelight and China’s rising influence in Asia was on the front page of New York Times, FinanceAsia had an article asking “Why RAND’s economic growth forecasts for China are below consensus?” “The consensus among many organizations, from supranationals to investment banks to think tanks, is that China’s GDP growth rates […]
Read MoreThanks to Eswn for translating Professor Jiao Guobiao’s latest essay: How to open up new control in China. In the article, Jiao, a professor in Peking University concluded that “If the news control should be opened up and the news media are allowed to function as public opinion watchdogs, a single newspaper will be more […]
Read MoreThe libel trial against the authors of the best-selling An Investigation into China’s Peasantry （中国农民调查） is ongoing in Anhui Province, SCMP reports: “Defence lawyer Pu Zhiqiang accused officials of using the court to suppress criticism of them. ‘In the four days of the trial, we saw the entire leadership of Linquan county under Mr Zhang,’ […]
Read More“All of this would seem to suggest an infinite supply of labour that allows China to produce an ever-increasing range of manufactured goods at ever-diminishing prices. But the picture appears to have dramatically changed this year – while the fearful reaction from rival manufacturers in the rest of the world is peaking. While prices for […]
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