While the world is transfixed by the Tahrir Square struggle in Cairo and the role of new media, China quietly removed “Egypt” as a searchable term on its web. Egypt has brought to the fore the challenges China’s next generation...
Read MoreIn the Atlantic, Howard French, former Shanghai bureau chief for the New York Times, writes that the recent revolution in Egypt has “shaken up the conventional wisdom” about China and about the “unfolding...
Read MoreAt the Guardian, Jonathan Watts looks back at environmental stories from the past year, including tigers, droughts, floods, traffic jams and oil spills. Also marked is the death of Liang Congjie, founder of China’s first...
Read MoreThe following essay was written by Hao Jian, a personal friend of Nobel Peace Prize awardee Liu Xiaobo and a fellow drafter of Charter 08: Liu Xiaobo, whose name means “morning wave,” is known to his friends as Xiaobo or Liubo....
Read MoreA new report from the NGO Saferworld details the effect of China’s expanding African presence on the continent’s security and stability. China’s bilateral relations with African states are largely determined by its...
Read MoreLong-time human rights activist Li Xiaorong reports for the New York Review of Books blog on her recent meeting with President Obama: Many Chinese activists view state-sponsored “political reform” in China as simply dead. Human...
Read MoreNPR looks at the changing dynamics of the U.S.-China relationship ahead of President Hu’s visit to Washington: On the other side of the Pacific, a rising China is becoming more assertive in world affairs in ways that the...
Read MoreAt Foreign Policy, Eric Abrahams describes the fall and rise of humour in the People’s Republic: … China’s educational policy and official pronouncements did not stray far from this pattern of value statements...
Read MoreThe following notes of recent directives from the Central Propaganda Department have been leaked online by journalists and are now circulating in Chinese cyberspace. Translated by CDT. From Radio France International: On January...
Read MoreCivil Society January 4, 2011 From the Central Propaganda Bureau: It is forbidden to use the term “civil society” (gongmin shehui) in reporting. It is not permitted to hype this topic. 公民社会 中宣部: 禁止在报道中提及“公民社会”，不能炒作这一话题。 Several...
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