The Los Angeles Times looks at Rupert Murdoch’s treatment of MySpace in China as a harbinger of what’s to come if Murdoch’s bid for the Wall Street Journal succeeds. The article implies that Murdoch’s...
Read MoreFrom Planetark.org: Drought affecting large swathes of China has left more than 8 million people short of water, and many livestock have died of hunger, the official Xinhua news agency said. The country’s northern regions, including Inner Mongolia and Liaoning and Jilin provinces , were among the worst affected areas, it said late on Friday, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Ninemsn: In the strictly controlled media world of communist China, “citizen journalism” is beating a way through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions. In one striking example this month, the Internet was largely responsible for breaking open a slave scandal in two Chinese provinces that some local […]
Read MoreDissent Magazine is featuring several articles about China, including one by Daniel Bell in which he says a likely scenario for the future of China’s political system involves, “a strong, meritocratically chosen legislature that has constitutional priority over the democratically elected house.”: Nobody argues that the current political system should remain in place once the […]
Read MoreTalking about Xiamen leaders “getting angry,” here is an article on Southern Metropolitan Daily on June 3rd on the environmental protests in Xiamen on June 1st and 2nd, translated by CDT: All Residents: There were...
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Fetid blue-green algae has appeared in an eastern Chinese lake but does not threaten water supplies, state media reported, a week after similar algae contaminated millions of people’s drinking water in a neighboring province. Environmental officials in Anhui province were closely monitoring the potentially poisonous algae bloom in Lake Chao, […]
Read MoreFrom The News Tribune.com: An elderly bishop in China’s underground Catholic church has been detained again by police, nine months after his release from their custody, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Thursday. Bishop Jia Zhiguo, 73, was taken away Tuesday by security agents in the northern city of Zhengding , the Cardinal Kung Foundation said […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: US Senator Barack Obama, rising star in the Democratic primaries ahead of next year’s presidential election and dubbed “the black JFK” (a reference to the late president John F Kennedy) by some of the US media, has delivered his first direct comment on the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan since […]
Read MoreIt’s becoming a rite of spring. Around 120 bosses of Beijing-based magazines withdrew to the hillside resort of Hongluo Temple last week, for five days of rest, relaxation, and, when they paid attention, re-indoctrination. All week, Marxist theoreticians and media ideologues lectured them on their editorial duty to the Communist Party. On Friday, they were […]
Read MoreIn today’s International Herald Tribune, Carl Minzner wrote: …… under China’s one-party system. Local Chinese party secretaries exercise sweeping control over the local media, legislatures and courts. Naturally, this breeds corruption and abuse of power. It also means that local party officials can effectively choke off information to Beijing, blinding the central authorities as to […]
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