That your paranoia affects my ability to check Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Danwei, the CDT, etc. etc. whenever I'm in China, I can handle. But this kind of "principle" affects everyone in the world. It is in no way a Chinese internal affair, and should not be treated as such (just as it shouldn't be...
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There’s been quite a bit of news and discussion of late as the government continues to tighten the screws of the internet (a good overview is Rebecca MacKinnon’s newest post). The blocking of Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites has given way to wider blocks on a variety of portals, including bittorrent sites...
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The following is a translation of most of this post (we skipped the last paragraph) from Woeser’s blog (which is currently blocked in China). Translation After the 7/5 Urumqi incident, Minzu University Associate Professor and head of a Uyghur website Ilham Toxti was placed under house arrest, and soon after more...
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The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story today (via CDT) about this years Nobel Literature Prize winner Herta Müller. Müller, apparently, is of the opinion that the West should “be tougher on China”. She said (quoting from the news story, which quotes her): Human rights in China have been cast aside for too long...
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Popular Chinese blogger on technology and the internet Isaac Mao‘s site has been blocked. Chock up another victim for the GFW, and another loss for people inside China without VPNs.
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From the point of view of someone who has been compiling and editing international news for several years now, there is definitely room for imagination in the headline: China is willing to cooperate with America's plan to increase troops. But what does "cooperate" mean?
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Sometimes we run across things in blog posts that we don’t have time to translate all of (or that aren’t worth translating in their entirety). In that spirit, we bring you Quick Thoughts. Today’s is from this post on Hecaitou’s site. Translation The world we live in is not perfect, and the media is...
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ChinaSMACK readers have probably already seen this post of theirs, purportedly a transcript of a BeiDa student laying into a Japanese reporter. Much of the discussion on ChinaSMACK is centered around whether or not it’s fake — it seems awfully likely it is, given the lack of video, photos, or attribution — but what...
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"Shanghai doesn't welcome you,
Unless you're coming to buy something,
But we don't have any money on us,
Shanghai doesn't welcome you,
The 2010 World Expo is really great,
All the rich people from all over the world will be united "
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...Now I'm without hope for effective treatment or just compensation, my freedom of movement has been constrained; the situation is that there's no way for me to leave the county!
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