A photo captured during the Olympic torch relay in Paris shows a ‘Tibetan protester’ attempting to steal the torch from a wheelchair bound carrier:
The Chinese media seized upon this evident display of unbound zeal, using it to describe the protests that have accompanied the torch around the world. Their converge sparked outrage across the country.
There’s [...]
Two Chinese ex-patriots wrote a piece in the Washington Post yesterday reminding everyone of China’s horrific human rights record:
Please be aware that the Olympic Games will be held in a country where there are no elections, no freedom of religion, no independent courts, no independent trade unions; where demonstrations and strikes are prohibited; where [...]
Yahoo has set up a fund that will provide legal defense and family support to Chinese ‘cyber dissidents’ like the ones they threw under the bus in 2004:
Business journalist Shi and pro-democracy blogger Wang were given 10-year jail sentences as a direct result of information provided to Chinese authorities by Yahoo, their lawsuit alleged.
Shi has [...]
For the second time in two weeks we’re learning about Chinese hackers doing its government’s dirty work:
The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition, a national advocacy group pushing to end the six-year-old conflict in Sudan…The [...]
Unrest in Tibet is being met with a show of force from Beijing. Still, if Tibet ever wants to be free, this is its best and perhaps last chance. Here’s why:
Beijing is systemically repopulating Tibet with ethnic Han Chinese. In the past thirteen years, the population of Tibetans has decreased by 15% while the population [...]
Washington’s collective worry over China should be postponed judging from the outcome of a new Pentagon report. Military Power of the People’s Republic of China concluded that “China will take until the end of this decade or longer to produce a modern force capable of defeating a moderate-size adversary. China will not be able [...]
Despite a UN arms embargo, Chinese made AK-47’s are turning up in bulk in The Democratic Republic of Congo, helping to fuel local instability:
UN arms expert Johan Peleman says that the Chinese arm trade is like a ‘business card.’ As opposed to purely financial motives sought by other small arms trading countries like Ukraine, China’s [...]
I was relieved to find out today that I am not the only one who found last week’s satellite shoot down to be completely unnecessary. To believe the rationale provided by the Bush administration and military, that chemical gas was going to contaminate the atmosphere wreaking death upon a random populous, required the active suspension [...]
GENEVA — The Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Tuesday presented a Russian-Chinese draft treaty banning weapons in space to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, an idea that was quickly rejected by the United States.
Russia and China know they are far behind the United States in the development of space technology. What concerns [...]
The People’s Republic of China is rounding up dissidents ahead of the Olympics this summer.
China, it turns out, isn’t a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size. For the foreseeable future, China will have far less money to spend on its military and will face much deeper social and economic problems at home than [...]
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