From 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. […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Guardian: The Chinese authorities have ordered all weblogs and websites in the country to register with the government or face closure in Beijing’s latest attempt to control online dissent. Commercial...
Read MoreFrom The LA Times (Sub required): Two years after coming to power, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have staked out a two-pronged strategy for political control: projecting a kinder, gentler image while cracking down on those disseminating unauthorized information. The news this week that a prominent Hong Kong journalist had been detained […]
Read MoreBelow is an article I wrote for Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists: ____________ The Rise of Rights? In Guangzhou case, weiquan advocates find success is tempered by harsh reality. Sun...
Read MoreIn the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief (via Asia Media), Willy Lam writes: It is not surprising that President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom ISSN: It is not surprising that Chinese President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration was close to losing control over xenophobic […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times, via Asia Media: Taiwan would be willing to reopen its doors to two Chinese media outlets so long as Beijing lifts its blackout against the online versions of two Taipei-based newspapers and refrains from blocking its local press groups from posting reporters in Taiwan, a senior official said yesterday… On April […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Some say Hu has cast himself as a hard-liner to consolidate his position after a delicate leadership transition and could still lead the party in a more open direction. There is a growing consensus inside and outside the government, however, that the 62-year-old former engineer believes the party should strengthen its rule […]
Read MoreThanks to Yawei Liu for sending the following information: Collective protest takes place in China regularly but this anti-pollution riot in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province, is rare and significant in many aspects. First, the...
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