A violent confrontation between officials and police and armed men left 21 people dead and eight more in custody near the Xinjiang city of Kashgar on Tuesday. From Christopher Bodeen at The Associated Press: Among the dead in...
Read MoreSunday saw the publication of China’s Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012, its now traditional retort to the U.S.’ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices issued two days previously. From the Chinese...
Read MoreAs severe smog becomes a fact of life for people living in Beijing and other Chinese cities, families with young children are hardest hit, Edward Wong reports for the New York Times. Many families, both Chinese and foreign, are...
Read MoreFor his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab comments on President Xi Jinping’s stated commitment to rooting out corruption, while also targeting activists who call for the declaration of...
Read MoreSince Saturday morning, when a 6.6Mw earthquake struck near Sichuan’s Ya’an city, thousands of volunteers from students and white-collar workers to Tibetan monks have descended on the affected area to offer...
Read MoreWhen something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Read MoreTensions are again rising in the waters around the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, following several Japanese politicians’ visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine over the weekend. The Chinese government condemned the visit to...
Read MoreReuters reports that a new directive from president Xi Jinping, aimed at boosting morale within the People’s Liberation Army, will require top military officers to spend two weeks as junior soldiers every few years: Under...
Read MoreLiu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo, was seen in public on Tuesday for the first time in two-and-a-half years as she attended her brother’s trial in Beijing on fraud charges related to a...
Read MoreXinhua reports that the 61 giant pandas at the Bifengxia breeding center were not physically harmed by the 6.6Mw earthquake that struck Sichuan province on Saturday, killing 193 and injuring over 12,000: According to the video...
Read MoreSaturday’s 6.6Mw earthquake in Sichuan has killed 193 and injured over 12,000, but has also laid bare the extent of damage to the reputation of the Red Cross Society of China. At The New York Times, Edward Wong examined...
Read MoreThe effects of an Internet attack could rival those of a nuclear bomb, according to a Chinese general at a briefing with the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in Beijing on Monday. From Bloomberg News: With the Internet...
Read MoreAs of April 22, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Sichuan Earthquake: At least 188 are dead and over 11,000 injured after Saturday morning’s 7.0-magnitude...
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