The Unseen China

In this thirty-minute documentary we propose to look at how China’s one billion unseen ordinary citizens has been affected by China’s economic transition. And we show that corruption in economic reforms has left many Chinese poor and angry.

Prisoners in Freedom City

China AIDS activist Hu Jia video-documented the secret police who put him and his wife under house arrest from July 2006 to March 2007.

An expert sees danger in China’s weakness, not its strength

The minister of public security is a Politburo member for the first time since the Cultural Revolution, Shirk notes, but only one person with business experience has become an alternate member of the party’s Central Committee, a significantly lower rank. The security services have joined with the organizations that handle propaganda and personnel to create what Shirk calls “the control cartel” devoted to pushing the party’s new ideology, a virulent form of nationalism.

Chinese cyber-call censored

Chinese authorities have taken the rare step of censoring an article in a Communist party magazine in which a top official urged tougher action for the “enormous” damage caused by US and other western cyber-spy attacks.

Director Wang condemns censorship in mainland

Wang revealed that China was to have stumped up half the budget for the film but pulled out because it objected to a line in the script where a character says: “Communism is good, it just got into bad hands.”

China does not want another Tiananmen Square by proxy

Beijing has protected Burma’s regime till now, but a brutal response to the protests would not be in its interests

Beijing Furious with Berlin over Dalai Lama Visit

The visit “grossly interferes with the internal affairs of China,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu announced during a routine press conference in Beijing on Monday. The meeting “hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and seriously undermines China-Germany relations,” she said.

Tailor-made

..where the adversary/opponent/partner is deemed more dangerous or stronger … the Chinese method is to seek to assuage rather than confront but at the same time working an end-run strategy. Where the adversary is seen as weak the Chinese method is to confront, ignore while all along advocating in the principle that, “resistance is futile.”

the return of fu manchu – chapter one heinous hackers

Sloppy and alarmist Yellow (Peril) journalism officially jumped the shark on September 8, 2007…

Made in China: Quality (or, The Challenge)

I think an important perspective to keep in mind is “Hanlon’s Razor”, somewhat paraphrased here: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.