Sina announced today that the accounts of several Weibo bloggers would be closed for a month. From New York Times: The operators of China’s most vibrant equivalent of Twitter notified each of its 200 million users Friday that...
Read MoreYesterday’s announcement by Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple, that he was retiring effective immediately had a ripple effect that went far beyond Cupertino. Apple products have gained a wide following in China in...
Read MoreForbes reports that local government has unleashed a “cat army” to control the rat infestation in remote Western China: Some 150 strays – dubbed by Chinese media as the “cat army” – were...
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Tibet scholar Robert Barnett writes about Vice Premier Xi Jinping’s recent speech in Lhasa to mark the 60th anniversary of PRC’s assumption of sovereignty over Tibet: The footage...
Read MoreViolent protests erupted in central China’s Henan province on Saturday after a drunk police officer lost control of his van and killed at least five people, according to media reports. From AFP: People gathered to protest...
Read MoreSalon reports on the efforts of Pentagon officials to formulate a new “AirSea Battle” approach to maintaining strategic dominance over China: [AirSea Battle] complements the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, a...
Read MoreThe recent train crash in Wenzhou showed the power of social media in China and its ability to overwhelm the traditional censorship mechanisms. The protests against a chemical factory in Dalian – which ultimately achieved...
Read MoreWhen Tropical Storm Muifa descended on China’s north-east last week, damage to dykes in Dalian sparked fears of leaks from a coastal chemical plant. The threat was averted, but thousands of local residents marched today,...
Read MoreDavid Cameron’s suggestion that individuals’ access to social media might be restricted to help contain future riots has prompted widespread comparisons with internet controls in China and elsewhere. Kenneth Roth of...
Read MoreZhang Xiang, an instructor in Computer Security at Xi’an University of Technology, wrote the following in response to threatening messages he received after discussing the Great Firewall in his class. Translated by CDT....
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