From The New York Times: Hu Shuli, the most powerful business editor in China, used to write propaganda for Workers’ Daily, the Communist Party’s publication. Now Ms. Hu pushes an aggressive staff of 50 young journalists to investigate government corruption and lift the veil on corporate fraud in China. Since 1998, Ms. Hu, 52, has […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to east Asia concluded in Beijing, where she made clear her opposition to the new anti-secession law and her view that Japan should be a permanent member of the UN security council. With Sino-Japanese relations deteriorating and unification of Taiwan with China regarded as non-negotiable by the Chinese, […]
Read MoreFox 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 […]
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