Hat tip to Richard from Peking Duck for pointing us to this, perhaps the worst article I have ever seen about China in a respected Western news source. It should be noted that even before this, Richard noted that Shaun Rein’s column is often terrible, but this one really takes the cake. His greatest...
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This blog has, perhaps, earned its name in some small part due to our coverage of racism in China (even though we’re told it doesn’t exist). On that front, I point you in the direction of a few more drops in the bucket. First, a popular Chinese social network game that allows players to...
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Who are the titans of Chinese industry? The Times thinks we should know — what with the Chinese economy growing by the minute — and they’ve does us the favor of writing up a list. But how to convey that information to the illiterate and the lazy, who aren’t going to read about powerful...
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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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Lets say you’re a journalist. You’ve got a story about how the Chinese government recently executed several Tibetans who were arrested in connection with the riots that happened last year. Your lede reads thusly: “Chinese authorities have carried out their first executions of Tibetans in connection with the deadly riots that swept Lhasa last...
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The China Digital Times pointed us in the direction of this BBC article: “African view: China’s New Long March“. Sigh. Is commercial practice and Chinese diplomacy in Africa really that similar to the actual Long March? No, it isn’t, but we can’t blame the BBC. They’re not exactly alone. Have a look: Teng’s New...
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A colleague forwarded us this New York Times story about the recent Frankfurt book fair, at which the tensions between China and the West were very much on display. The Times has tagged it as “uneasy engagement”, and we couldn’t think of a more apropos phrase to describe the conference. Government representatives, dissident writers,...
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It's amazing how fast China blogs grow old. ChinaGeeks is over half a year old now, and still the Western media hasn't sat us down to have "the talk" about where quotations come from. Maybe it's time they did.
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There has been some discussion about Thoman Friedman’s most recent op-ed, “Our One-Party Democracy“. In it, he compares China to the US favorably, arguing that China’s autocratic system is more efficient and responsive: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America...
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Apparently. According to the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, not everyone is content with blaming the WUC or the CCP for the riots in Xinjiang last month, so the Syrian government has introduced a new three-letter acronym to blame: USA. From the article (an editorial in the state-owned Al-Thawra): While the G-8 countries were...
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