Ministry of Truth: Anti-Japanese Protests
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
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Advice for Gu Kailai: Lose Weight to Leave Jail
Netizens are going crazy over the telling placement of headlines in yesterday’s edition of the Shandong paper 6 AM Today (今晨6点). At top is a photo of Gu Kailai at her trial and the headline “Bogu Kailai’s Commuted Death...
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Word of the Week: Great, glorious and correct
Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a...
Read MoreChina Announces Plan to Cut Energy Consumption
In a bid to strengthen China’s energy security, the central government announced plans on Tuesday to spend nearly $400 billion to cut China’s energy consumption by 300 million tonnes of standard coal before 2015, via...
Read MoreChinese Cities Pledge to Boost Spending, but Will They?
The Wall Street Journal reports that a number of Chinese cities have rolled out large stimulus measures intended to boost slumping growth: The city of Chongqing in China’s southwest called for investment of 1.5 trillion...
Read MoreMOOve Over Miss World
While Miss China took the Miss World 2012 title, cows in Shanxi Province also had the opportunity to be crowned the winner in the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant, from The New York Daily News: Cows in China got the chance to strut their...
Read MoreChinese Visa Plan Poses ‘Security Threat’
The United Kingdom’s Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is trying to ‘turbo-charge’ tourism to the UK by capitalizing on fervor surrounding the Olympics. According to The Guardian, despite the high demand for Chinese tourists, many...
Read MoreState Media Mixed About Myanmar Press Freedom
Myanmar ended press censorship on Monday, and The Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese state media presented conflicting views of the news: The website of the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s mouthpiece newspaper,...
Read MoreU.S. Looms Large Over China’s Sovereignty Disputes
As tensions between China and Japan hit a new recent high this week over the disputed Diaoyu Islands, and with Japanese forces joining U.S. marines in the west Pacific today for the start of a month-long military drill, Xinhua...
Read MoreConcern at Abuse of Foreign Journalists in China
Three China-based Foreign Correspondents’ Clubs have issued a joint statement condemning “alarming” recent episodes of harassment against foreign reporters. From the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong...
Read MoreBo Supporters Drawing Battle Lines Within the CCP
With Gu Kailai’s murder trial and conviction yesterday, leftist allies of disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai remain adamant that he and his wife are victims of a conspiracy to curb his political rise and have...
Read MoreNetizen Voices: Sign Brother Speaks Truth
“Sign Brother” (举牌哥) was seen at the Xinjiekou stop in the Nanjing subway last week. His makeshift sandwich board reads: Front: If you can fight for democracy and human rights, what sorrow is there in death? Back: If you cannot...
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