CRI / Sichuan Online: Will Yang Rui become another Zhao Pu?
Main Link: China Radio International (originally published by Sichuan Online), May 25, 2012 The Weibo message by Wang Rui, a host at CCTV’s English channel, triggered huge controversy. Last Wednesday,...
View ArticleNorwegian-Chinese Relations: a Panda is no Polar Bear
China wants to join the Arctic Council as a permanent observer, or in other words, to quote Scott Stearn‘s Voice of America (VoA) blogpost of June 5, “China wants a bigger say in the Arctic, where...
View ArticleWeekender: how Chen Guangcheng is Unharmonious, and why he was Freed Anyway
Harmony promoters in China, ideally, ridicule non-conformistic behavior, to the degree a situation appears to demand. A child won’t be argued with, and won’t be refuted. Rather, it will be told that...
View ArticleA few Thoughts about the 100-Days Crackdown on Foreigners in China
“China’s crackdown on foreigners raises specter of xenophobia”, read the title of a weekly column by CNN columnist Jaime A. FlorCruz on June 4. First thing that FlorCruz does is that he quotes his...
View ArticleBlogging Kissinger: no Naked Promises, at Times like These
From the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website, June 12, 2012: Chief State Councillor Wen Jiabao met with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Zhongnanhai’s Ziguang Pavillon*) on June 12....
View ArticleShijiazhuang News Net: a Sketch from Space
From Xinhua, June 18, 2010, via Shijiazhuang News Net, June 19 – links within blockquotes added during translation. Main link: Literary sketch: Tiankong, my Beautiful Home (神九航天员进驻天宫一号速写,美丽的”天宫”我的家)...
View ArticleThe “Great Leap Forward”, Frank Dikötter, and a Blogging Break
It’s time for a few days’ break from blogging, unless Jiang Zemin passes away, Yang Rui gets uncovered as a spy for the CIA, or if similarly sensational news should break. I will be back to blogging by...
View ArticleCigarettes, Censorship and True Patterns of Citizenship
Worries that foreign-trash expert public diplomat Yang Rui might become another Zhao Pu have proven unfounded so far. However, if the China Media Project (CMP) and quite a number of Chinese news...
View ArticlePeople’s Daily editorial: Human-Rights Advocacy will Marginalize America
America needed to stop playing the role of a democracy preacher, a People’s Daily (人民日报) editorialist named Zhong Sheng (钟声 – this name or pen name also translates tolling of the bells) wrote on...
View ArticleHuanqiu / China News Service: Japanese Ambassador’s Trip to Tokyo reflects...
NHK Radio Japan reports that Japan’s ambassador to China has left Beijing for a brief return to Tokyo. The diplomat will report on China’s recent actions concerning the Senkaku Islands in the East...
View ArticleWang Xia: Unswerving Birth Control
China’s family-planning commission director Wang Xia (王侠) told a working session that China would unswervingly adhere to the family-planning policy, the BBC Mandarin website quotes Chinese press....
View ArticleSino-Russian Fishery Incident: An FMPRC Statement and its (apparent) Story
China News Service (CNS, 中新网) / Enorth, July 22, 2012, 07:04 Beijing time – Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Saturday evening that the incident of a Russian patrol boat that shelled Chinese...
View ArticleOne Year after the Wenzhou Train Crash: an Editorial by People’s Daily
The accident is something we want to forget. If a local government were to plan a ceremony, that would bring shame on the Ministry of Railways. You surely understand that, don’t you? A senior Wenzhou...
View ArticleCheng Tianquan: Citizen Participation in Foreign Affairs
The following is the second half of an article by Cheng Tianquan (程天权), professor and party secretary at Renmin University (or People’s University). The article was first published by Jiefang Daily,...
View ArticlePatriotic Education in HK: “Foster a Sense of Affection”
The BBC found the Hong Kong public in a “restive” mood during party and state chairman Hu Jintao‘s recent visit to the territory, to mark the fifteenth anniversary of its handover, and cited some...
View ArticleHuanqiu Shibao: is South-East Asia replacing “Made in China”?
- The following are loosely translated extracts from an article by Huanqiu Shibao, published on Friday, and authored by several Huanqiu reporters. It refers to an UNCTAD 2012 Investment Report,...
View Article18th National Congress: a Responsibility outweighing Mount Taishan
The following is a translation of a People’s Daily commentary, published on Tuesday (local breakfast time), on the completed process of determining the 18th National Congress delegates (i. e. the...
View ArticleThat’s Communication!
In an interview with Greek television, former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder doesn’t spare either party in the sovereign debt crisis with criticism, but finds the right words for the Greek audience...
View ArticleWen and Jang: Joint Efforts
- A Communiqué Chief State Councillor Wen Jiabao met with a delegation consisting of North Korean Workers’ Party Politbureau Standing Committee member, head of the Central Administrative Department,...
View ArticleSmart Public, part 2: True Colors
Dissatisfaction drives change – that’s conventional wisdom. And it’s not necessarily true. Dissatisfaction may dominate partytalk, just as well, after a few beers, or whatever you drink. If there’s...
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