"I really didn’t know this was the last time I would ever see him. It never occurred to me. I told him I hadn’t been able to come see him before, and so came to see him now. I told him I believed he wouldn’t do anything to endanger the country or society. I...
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ChinaNet, March 27 report: A young American man teaching at a Zhuhai English academy who dated and had sex with a college student was not willing to be snubbed and sought to use nude pictures he had taken of her to extort 100,000 RMB. Yesterday a Zhuhai Intermediate People’s Court passed...
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I hope everyone had a happy Serfs’ Liberation Day. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, you haven’t been reading the People’s Daily. In the past week or so, the government has launched a massive PR blitz on Tibet, even as security was tightened in the province and Tibetan ethnic regions and riots were...
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It’s been a while since people were buzzing all over China about milk that had been poisoned with melamine, and the babies who drank it and were killed. Well, the courts haven’t forgotten: today they upheld their death sentence for Geng Jinping, who was convicted of selling over 900 tons of tainted milk to...
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Today is March 10, the much-discussed anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising. ChinaGeeks has reported repeatedly on the security buildup leading up the anniversary, as have many other sources, but so far, there’s no sign of any major protest activity. If there were, it would be quite a surprise given the security presence there,...
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Everyone’s talking about the upcoming 50-year anniversary of the Lhasa uprising and whether something will happen. (OK, by everyone, I mean us). One guy who thinks something will happen? The Dalai Lama (h/t Fool’s Mountain). In an interview with a German newspaper, the exiled Tibetan leader said of the upcoming anniversary, “I am very...
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It appears the Chinese government is taking no chances with the upcoming anniversary of last year’s unrest in Tibet and other Tibetan ethnic regions. The New York Times is reporting that the authorities have imposed an unofficial state of martial law on the vast highlands where ethnic Tibetans live, with thousands of troops occupying...
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Last Thursday, the US State Department published its annual report on global human rights which, as one might expect, included a hefty 44-page section on China’s various (alleged) misdeeds. Also unsurprisingly, human rights violations in Tibet featured heavily, earning their own section and the following condemnation in summary: The government’s human rights record in...
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In his remarks to the United States Congress on Tuesday, American President Barack Obama gave the Chinese government some unexpected props: We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century. And yet, it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their...
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2009 is a year of anniversaries for China. It's been 60 years since the formation of the modern People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party’s formal ascent to power, an event sure to be lauded by the current regime and is to include the country’s biggest military parade ever and even...
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