Friday, July 30, 2010
Four people have been detained in connection with the chemical pipeline explosion in Nanjing, which killed 13 people. AFP reports: More than 300 others were injured in the blast on Wednesday, which occurred on the grounds of an abandoned plastics factory in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, as workers were demolishing the facility. The explosion reportedly occurred [...] Read more »
Despite reports that the oil spill has been cleaned and is under control, one U.S. expert suggests the toll was much larger and more damaging. From the Associated Press: China’s worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported – bigger than the famous Exxon Valdez spill two decades ago – [...] Read more »
The New York Times reports on the sentencing of three Uighur webmasters: Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their role in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile groups and court officials. The sentences, the outcome of a one-day trial last week, are [...] Read more »
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and bloggers often refer to those instructions as “Directives from the Ministry of Truth.” CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of [...] Read more »
CDT’s Xiao Qiang was interviewed, together with the Washington Post’s John Pomfret, on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show today about China’s external propaganda efforts. Listen here: In the past two years, China’s news agencies have opened dozens of bureaus and launched English-language television stations and newspapers across the U.S. This “soft-power” strategy is aimed at countering what [...] Read more »
Susan D. Blum, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, writes on changing standards of academic conduct in China for The China Beat: China is in the midst of a great upheaval in terms of higher education and intellectual work in general. Now second only to the US, China’s scientific research productivity is on [...] Read more »
The New York Times reports on the worsening air and water quality in China: China, the world’s most prodigious emitter of greenhouse gas, continues to suffer the downsides of unbridled economic growth despite a raft of new environmental initiatives. The quality of air in Chinese cities is increasingly tainted by coal-burning power plants, grit from construction sites [...] Read more »
Han Han, the popular Chinese blogger and writer, spoke at the Hong Kong Book Fair. From the New York Times: Han Han, considered China’s most popular blogger, faced about 200 members of the news media and 1,800 fans at the recent book fair here. The first question from the press, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in [...] Read more »
After putting investigative journalist Qiu Ziming on the Wanted List for a series of articles he wrote revealing insider trading at a Shenzhen manufacturing company. From AFP: Qiu Ziming had become a cause celebre after his investigative reports on alleged improprieties by a listed company landed him in a nationwide police most-wanted database on suspicion of [...] Read more »
Recently, the policy of “sealed management” – under which villages of migrant workers are heavily guarded and locked at night – has been reported in the English media. The following article from Caixin gives more details about the implementation of the policy in villages around Beijing. Translated for CDT by Thomas Howell: The Truth Behind Beijing’s [...] Read more »
Global Times reports that Economic Observer journalist Qiu Ziming (仇子明) is wanted for arrest after uncovering insider trading at a Shenzhen manufacturing company: A Beijing-based business newspaper pledged Wednesday to stand firm in defending one of its journalists who became a fugitive from the law following his whistle-blowing investigative report of insider trading by a Shenzhen-listed [...] Read more »
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has produced a 45-page report by James McGregor titled, “China’s Drive for ‘Indigenous Innovation’ – A Web of Industrial Policies.” From the Executive Summary, which describes Road to Renaissance, a Broadway-style show produced by the Communist Party for the 60th anniversary of the PRC: Migrant workers, engineers, bankers, cooks, taxi drivers, [...] Read more »
When details of coal mine murder-extortion plots in Beijing began to surface, some cinema fans noted the murders’ striking similarity to those in the 2003 film Blind Shaft. But as a Caixin article reveals, sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction: Zhang Xihua left most of her relatives in the dark when she suddenly and secretly [...] Read more »
According to a translated Economic Observer report, Kashgar will become Xinjiang’s newest ’special economic zone’ (SEZ): As part of the central government’s recently-announced plans to spur economic growth in the Xinjiang region, Kashgar, a pivotal freight station in western Xinjiang, has been chosen as the home of a planned special economic zone (SEZ) modeled on the [...] Read more »
The New York Times profiles eminent Chinese legal scholar, Jerome Cohen: Over the years, Mr. Cohen has met with members of numerous legal delegations organized by the Chinese Supreme Court that have visited the United States, including one soon to arrive to study punishment policies — “because they want to improve, and they know they are [...] Read more »
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