What to make of Qiu Xiaohua’s abrupt removal from his job as China’s chief statistician? No one really knows for sure yet. Last week’s tersely worded Xinhua news agency item sounded an alarm bell that something was amiss. Word around Beijing is that Qiu will not be reassigned: he committed a “severe disciplinary violation” (‰∏•ÈáçËøùÁ∫™). […]
Read MoreChina Media Project at Journalism & Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong posted on its website three Internet censorship cases in Chongqing city. From those three cases you can clearly see how China is controlling the Internet. Chongqing police say all Internet users must register by October 30 or face fines and […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Times: As he promotes Western-style notions of governance in China, Thornton faces a business culture in transition. The government, run by the Communist party, still controls a vast swath of the economy and has no intention of giving up its control ” particularly in strategic industries such as telecommunications. The government owns […]
Read MoreOn its “Foreign Media on China” page, the China Daily website reprints in its entirety an International Herald Tribune column penned by Philip Bowring that describes, and appears to laud, the Communist Party’s recent tightening of controls: It is hard for liberals and democrats to accept, but there seems to an inevitability about the reassertion […]
Read MoreThe forecast for the weekly newspaper and periodicals market in China is very upbeat, but I am very pessimistic about the current situation. This, as a matter of fact, is also my view of the Chinese media industry as a whole… Remember Cheng Yizhong (Á®ãÁõä‰∏≠)? The above-quoted statement appears to be the first to be […]
Read MoreOn Newsweek.com, Melinda Liu summarizes the recent government crackdown on free expression in China: For a while many foreign correspondents thought authorities were “killing the chicken to scare the monkey.” That’s a Chinese proverb meaning one target is attacked in order to intimidate another. When we saw our Chinese contacts harassed, detained, physically assaulted and […]
Read MoreFrom The LA Times: In a random sampling of Internet comments shortly after the regulations were released Sunday, a few Chinese supported the government’s stance as a way to stem “foreign rumors.” But the vast majority slammed the new rules with sarcasm and wit, accusing the government of turning back the clock, undercutting the media’s […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A senior official of China’s Xinhua News Agency has cited “numerous violations” of tax and other laws by foreign counterparts as justification for rules banning them from dealing directly with local clients. The rules, which also give Xinhua the power to censor news and information distributed in China by foreign news agencies […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: On Sunday, China’s official news agency Xinhua issued a new set of directives on the distribution of foreign news in China that reinforces its traditional role as gatekeeper and propaganda arm. That role includes filtering news and pictures from international news agencies, which are forbidden from selling their content direct […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua net via sina.com, translated by CDT: Hou Jianjun, former Liaoning Provincial Congress’s delegate member and chairman of a transportation company in Fushun City, had a verbal fight with a pedestrian while driving early one morning in March last year. Then it escalated into a fistfight. And the incident spiraled out of control with […]
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