Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, David Callaway from CBS MarketWatch wrote a op-ed piece entitled “Tiananmen hangs over China boom” Here are some quotes from his article: “The idea that a booming economy will push the hard line government into suddenly deciding to release its grip on power in exchange for […]
Read MoreSalon has written a long piece about blogging in China, which tries to answer the question: “On the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, blogs are booming in China. But are they making any difference?” The full article is here. Registration is required, but non-subscribers can get a free day pass.
Read MoreUnicef representatives from Vietnam and China launched a campaign to stop the trafficking of girls and women. Vietnam is one of the main sources for trafficked girls who are sold as wives in China.
Read MoreIn the Scotsman, 1989 student leader Wang Dan writes: “Now, reflecting on the events of 15 years ago, it is clear to me as never before that the Tiananmen massacre was an unavoidable step in the long path to a free China, and that true political reform can never come from within the Communist Party. […]
Read MoreAsia Times has published two articles about the lasting effect of the Tiananmen Square protests on Chinese society and politics. The first, It’s the Money, not Tiananmen that Counts, argues that the lingering memory of the 1989 crackdown continues to underlie discussions of economic development and political reform in China today: “While both the Chinese […]
Read More“Police are quickly clamping down on attempts to mark the crackdown A leading Chinese doctor who criticised the Communist Party’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has disappeared on the eve of its 15th anniversary. Jiang Yanyong is one of several potential critics thought to have been taken from Beijing or put under house arrest ahead of […]
Read More“On the 15th anniversary of China’s suppression of student protesters in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, few in the West seem aware that Beijing is again confronting a growing volume of popular protest. Even more surprising, reports of this widespread protest are being confirmed by China’s own police forces, which used to routinely deny […]
Read MoreAsia Times looks behind the reasons why China recently backed down on enforcing its own standards for wireless technology, citing protests from both American businesses and Chinese consumers. The full story is here.
Read MorePhilip Pan reported in the Washington Post that Jiang Zemin has been wielding significant power behind the scenes to rein in moves toward democracy in Hong Kong and independence in Taiwan. In recent weeks, three prominent talk show hosts in Hong Kong have quit, citing pressure and threats they received from mainland officials.
Read MoreXinhua reported China’s two-month campaign on fraud by cell phone text messages or via Internet. In the article, an official from the Ministry of Public Security reminded the information industry department to step up supervision not only on text messages but also on phone number registrations, and urged it to block junk messages with special […]
Read MorePC World reported the Chinese wikipedia story today. An informal group of Chinese volunteers has been working on this project since May 2001. According to Hong Kong Scholar Andrew Lih, the Chinese language Wikipedia (http://zh.wikipedia.org) is still relatively small, with just over 6,500 articles, and ranks as the 12th largest just behind Esperanto and Italian […]
Read MoreAccording to Chi Lo in his new book, The Misunderstood China: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Bamboo Curtain, great ignorance of China’s economic issues runs unchecked in current world discourse, the implicit danger of which is that, should our misconceptions of China today be enacted in the form of, say, “raising anti-dumping and safeguard measures […]
Read MoreTaiwan’s National Security Bureau has said that documents allegedly proving that the ruling DPP has provided financial aid to Chinese dissidents overseas and recruited them to spy for Taiwan are forgeries, according to a report in the Taipei Times. Beijing released the documents one week ahead of the 15th anniversary of June 4. Dissident Yang […]
Read MoreCatherine Armitage wrote a story on Australian IT, interviewed mostly Hu Jia, Liu Xiaobo, Han Dongfang and other activists who has been using the Net to express themselves. It mentioned one of the Internet petitions last year: initiated by Liu Xiaobo and others for the removal of Mao Zedong’s body from its mausoleum in Tiananmen […]
Read MoreBeijing’s Alfa Lounge Wednesday night played host to the opening of
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