From the Guardian Unlimited: “As China’s newspapers have observed in the run-up to next week’s spring festival, their country and its citizens are on the move like never before. But the events of the past fortnight have proved one feature of national life is still stuck firmly in the communist dark age: draconian censorship of […]
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The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts, the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief and current...
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After covering China for seven years, The Guardian’s China correspondent Tania Branigan...
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Premier Li Keqiang is embarking on a visit to several Latin American countries, with plans to...
Read MoreOn the Sinica podcast, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn talk to The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos as he prepares to leave Beijing after eight years. Osnos describes his forthcoming book, due in Spring 2014, on “the power of...
Read MoreAt The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media’s departing China correspondent John Garnaut reflects on his work over the past six years. I came to China thinking I knew something about the place, having spent two years here...
Read MoreA Chinese company has been awarded a 100-year, $40 billion contract to build and operate a canal across Nicaragua, competing with the nearly 100-year-old Panama Canal. From Jonathan Watts at The Guardian: The president of the...
Read MoreDharamsala-based Phayul.com reports that a 92nd self-immolation protest took place on Monday evening. Lobsang Gendun, a 29-year-old Tibetan monk self-immolated in Golog Pema Dzong at around 7:45 pm (local time). He succumbed to...
Read MoreThe final document that emerged from the Rio+20 Earth Summit prompted vocal disappointment from many quarters, with Jonathan Watts going as far as to compare the conference with a 1930s League of Nations assembly. From Watts and...
Read MoreAmid frustration at the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio—which The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts gloomily compared with a 1930s League of Nations assembly—a side meeting between Wen...
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