For the Sydney Morning Herald, John Garnaut writes about a meeting former President Jiang Zemin held with China’s Soviet historians to try to understand why the Soviet Union failed. In recent years, Garnaut argues, the...
Read MoreMichael Posner, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, is in Beijing for meetings with Chinese officials, which are expected to be tense and not terribly productive. From the New York...
Read MoreThe newly released annual Human Rights Report by the State Department has taken note of the Chinese government’s suppressive activities: Three disturbing global trends – growing crackdowns on civil-society activists,...
Read MoreThe 1984 BBS is a private online forum that has over 7000 registered members in China. Ai Weiwei, who had just returned to his Beijing home from an international trip few days earlier, was a special guest for a one hour online...
Read MoreAs news of the apparent detention of activist and artist Ai Weiwei sends shock waves through the world, another artist, Wu Yuren, has been released on parole after ten months in jail. A sentence has not yet been handed down in...
Read MoreInfluential Australia-based blogger Yang Hengjun has not been heard from since soon after he arrived in Guangzhou, the Sydney Morning Herald reports: Yang Hengjun, who retired from the Chinese Foreign Ministry to become a...
Read MoreFor the Guardian, Michael Tomasky looks at debates over the U.S. role in unrest in Bahrain and other countries in the Arab World, and wonders about a future where China replaces the U.S. as the world’s policeman: America...
Read MoreThe Telegraph’s International Business Editor, Ambrose Evans-Pitchard, compares two different pictures of the world in 2050 and the two giants’ places in it: The economies of China and India [according to Citigroup’s...
Read MoreProminent blogger Ran Yunfei finished this blog entry on the first day of Spring Festival this year, about two weeks before he was arrested. See also Ran’s Twitter site and his blog. Notice on the left hand side of...
Read MoreOn China Media Project, Ying Chan writes about the recent revolution in Egypt and its implications for China and the prospects for political reform there. She discusses the ways China has changed since 1989, and discusses the...
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