Fox News has interviewed former Beijing University journalism professor Jiao Guobiao, who is now in the U.S.: To Jiao, the crackdown on the Internet is just an extension of the government’s controlling hand and heavy boot on all forms of expression in China that seem to threaten the power structure politically and socially. While China […]
Read MoreThanks to Willem van Kemenade for the following account from Beijing: I witnessed the demo in front of the Japanese embassy this afternoon for about one hour, from 5 to 6 pm. My son had alerted me by mobile one hour before and...
Read MoreThis is a shocking story, about a wrongful execution only discovered ten years later. (The Globe and Mail’s report is here.) After the story was uncovered and reported by the Henan Business News, Chinese authority quickly...
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: In a surprisingly broad and deep targeting of thought and expression here, authorities across China have shut or drastically curtailed college Internet message boards – a powerful vehicle for free exchange, and one used far more by non-students than students… The crackdown is another phase of a broad and zealous […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for sending the following in to CDT: I’ve just started reading “Reform of the Chinese Political System” by Zhou Tianyong and collaborators. He is the vice director of research at the Central Party School and the book has a foreword by Li Junru, vice president of the Central Party School. The […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: A grass-roots Chinese campaign to keep Japan out of the United Nations Security Council has gathered some 22 million signatures, increasing the chances that China will block Japan’s bid to join the elite group, organizers and analysts said Thursday. The petition effort, conducted through popular Chinese Web sites, enjoys tacit […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via washingtonpost.com: China’s southwestern province of Yunnan will require annual AIDS tests for people working in hotels, nightclubs and other entertainment outlets, a local official and the government’s Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. Under the new rules, announced Monday and effective immediately, those testing positive will be fired, Xinhua said, citing the text […]
Read MoreFrom Green Left Weekly: In 1997, Beijing formalised a policy to massively extend the 1990s “experimental” privatisation of state firms. The big state firms were said to be off limits, but what constituted “big” was never spelled out. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission was mandated by the State Council ” the central government’s […]
Read MoreOrville Schell has published an essay in Time Asia on China’s failure to deal with its history: By the time former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Premier Zhao Ziyang died in January, he seemed to have...
Read MoreFrom The New York Review of Books, via A Glimpse of the World blog: He Qinglian, the economist and journalist whose book China’s Pitfall[1] exposed the ways in which officials in control of state-owned resources used their power to make huge unearned profits during China’s economic boom in the 1990s, has now written an account […]
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