From The EastSouthWestNorth blog: News media know that they have to keep the excitement level up in order to keep their audience. But news media know that they depend heavily on external development and events (such as the The Fuzhou Bus Explosion), which are beyond their control. During times when nothing new and exciting is […]
Read MoreFrom CBC: In a new attempt to reassert control over popular culture, China has barred new foreign television channels and plans to step up censorship of imported programs. China has greatly liberalized media markets over the past three years and satellite broadcasters such as News Corp. and Viacom have moved in. But that’s prompted concern […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: New regulations proposed by the Chinese government would keep additional foreign satellite broadcasters from entering the market and would strengthen restrictions on foreign television programs, books, newspapers and theater performances, all in an effort to tighten control over the country’s culture. The regulations were announced on Tuesday by China’s Propaganda […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: About 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens with one government official calling the situation “anarchy.” The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 450 miles northeast of Beijing, was one of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: More than 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens, sources said on Wednesday. The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 725 km (450 miles) northeast of Beijing, was one of a […]
Read MoreFrom Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via Asia Media: The CNOOC bid came at a sensitive time in U.S.-China relations. Since earlier this year, the members of the second Bush administration have repeatedly warned that the United States had previously underestimated the speed of the Chinese military’s modernization drive. With the U.S. trade deficit going further […]
Read MoreFor the Project Syndicate, Sin-ming Shaw, formerly a leading Hong Kong investment fund manager and currently visiting scholar at Columbia University wrote: Should Chairman Mao’s huge portrait still hang above the front gate of Tiananmen Square? Should China’s ruling party still call itself Communist? These are not idle questions. Unless and until China’s leaders answer […]
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek, via MSNBC.com: Beijing is cracking down on the media, but censors are finding it’s no longer so easy to control news. Document 16 shows how seriously the government sees its control eroding, and “gives a dangerous picture of the future if it cannot” regain the initiative, says one Beijing-based scholar who’s read […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via sandiego.com Saturday’s showdown at Shengyou, 220 km (140 miles) southwest of Beijing in Hebei province, was first reported in the Beijing News, rare coverage for one of a growing number of disputes over land rights in China, where the government places an overriding emphasis on the need for social stability. Protests take […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: WHO LEADS the world in jailing reporters? That’s an easy one: China has been the champion for the past six years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. At the end of 2004 its count of imprisoned professionals was 42, including several singled out by the two-year-old regime of Hu Jintao. […]
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