Are things getting worse in China?
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Are things getting worse in China?
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Ai Weiwei is under house arrest. That seems to indicate an interesting shift in strategy for the authorities.
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Here's a video of something that happened when we were up in the Northeast shooting a little documentary.
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Liu Xiaobo winning the Nobel Peace Prize has given rise to a lot of discussion. The Global Times, for one, has been running vicious op-eds slamming Liu and the Nobel Peace Prize daily since the award was announced. Some of the discussion happening outside official media, in contrast, has been interesting and productive, but...
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A discussion of journalistic objectivity and how it applies to China blogs (specifically, this one).
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The other day, my fiancee asked me — rather out of the blue — if I was proud to be an American. The question caught me off guard. Pressed for an answer, I suggested that I was sometimes proud to be American, and by way of example noted the recent “terror mosque” controversy that’s...
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Does China's government have the right to control the internet?
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Terrible ethnic rioting has sprung up in Kyrgyzstan. Their government is asking the US and Russia for military help. But can -- and should -- China help?
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How should China treat North Korea now that the DPRK has shot and killed three Chinese citizens?
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Share your thoughts on the Shanghai Expo's usefulness and appeal -- or lack thereof.
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