From the Straits Times, via Asia Media: Chinese hackers have defaced the website of a police-run security company leading a new effort to strengthen government control over the Internet. The attack against the website of Beijing General Security Service came amid its drive to recruit a corps of 4,000 ‘Internet security guards’ to monitor the […]
Read MoreThis OP-ED was published by Asian Wall Street Journal on 27 April 05: It’s no coincidence that the largest of China’s recent anti-Japanese protests occurred in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and...
Read MoreThe following text is from my oral presentation before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. This Hearing on China’s State Control Mechanisms and Methods was held in Washington D.C. on April 14, 2005. It...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: State-controlled media and censored Internet chat rooms in China have become uncommonly critical of North Korea in the two days since it declared that it had nuclear weapons, even as the Foreign Ministry here has said fairly little. The criticism by state-run media is important because the Chinese government has […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: China’s banking regulators on Monday ordered the Bank of China to improve its risk controls and thoroughly investigate a case of suspected fraud that state media reports said may involve funds worth more than 1 billion yuan ($120 million). The China Banking Regulatory Commission said it was cooperating with […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via the Boston Globe: A glance at the newspapers and glossy magazines jostling for space on China’s news stands shows how much the media has changed since the Communist country embraced market reforms more than 20 years ago. But the death of ousted leader Zhao Ziyang, who sympathized with student demonstrators in […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: “China’s state-controlled press has refrained from reporting the serious health condition of former leader Zhao Ziyang, who was removed from power after he opposed the use of force in the quelling of 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests.”
Read MoreFrom Asia Times online: “Top officials from China’s propaganda sector recently convened a high-level meeting in central China’s Henan province and concluded that some people are ‘exploiting the Internet’ to attack the government and ruling Communist Party, Asia Times Online has learned from an informed source in Beijing. China experts say this session may signal […]
Read MoreThe Guangdong party secretary has criticized the Hong Kong media for reporting on recent protests in the province, which have been blacked out in the mainland media. Lin Shusen told reporters that he doesn’t believe there has been an increase in the number of public protests and said, ‘It’s normal for people to go to […]
Read MoreThe Propaganda Department has issued an order banning reports about “public intellectuals,” a term used to describe intellectuals who are also involved in public affairs, according to the South China Morning Post, “A source said the Publicity Department, which supervises propaganda and ideological control, issued an order last week barring reports on the topic of […]
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