Stories about China from February, 2006
Google and Microsoft in China, Revisited
Mathew Stinson gives a comprehensive review of the recent discussions in the blogosphere on Google and Microsoft's censorship in China. He argues that Microsoft is commiting a bigger sin than...
The Cost of Unification
Jerome Keating guest-posts on The Peking Duck on the potential social and economic costs of Taiwan's unification with Mainland China. Without touching on political costs, Jerome points out that the...
African Bloggers Respond to the Rise of China in Africa
There's no doubt about it China has emerged as the newest economic force fast embroiled in the global race for markets and raw materials. No where is this more apparent...
Lesser of Two Evils
ESWN discusses which is the lesser of two evils in terms of blog censorship: MSN Spaces which follows the orders of the Chinese government, or China's own BSPs?
Collectively At Hyundai In China
Jamie on Two Koreas considers it significant that the All China Federation of Trade Unions is pressuring for a collective bargaining agreement at Hyundai's China operation , even though China...
Taiwan Strikes Back, With Pixels
Tim Maddog on Indiac rebukes China's claims of being “peaceful” in a recent white paper, by citing Taiwan's white paper on China's rise and adding his own commentary.
Who Is “Better”?
John at Sinosplice is not sure how to best explain to his Chinese students in English “the difference between ‘value to society’ and ‘inherent human worth’“. Readers debate whether this...
China Is 80 Years Behind
Simon World points to an amusing new study published in People's Daily (the official propagand mouthpiece of the Chinese government) today. The study, conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
All Yahoo!'s Fault?
The Western media are condemning Yahoo! again for handing over the personal account information of Li Zhi to the Chinese government. Li Zhi was sentenced to 8 years in jail...
US Angry at The Speech of Taiwan's President Chen
Michael Turton in The View From Taiwan argues that the US's strong negative reaction to the Lunar New Year's speech from Taiwan's President Chen clearly shows ” how US officialdom...
A Different Kind of Fight in China
ESWN translates and sums up the reporting from 5 newspapers on a different kind of “mass incident” in Zhanjiang, China. More than 500 villagers were involved in a fight with...
China, Taiwan: Animal Talk
Pinyin News goes from discussing an article about how birds can distinguish between Japanese and Mandarin Chinese to China's announcement that it was teaching Taiwanese to pandas it wants to...
To Show Or Not To Show In China
Various blogs discuss the banning of Memoir of A Geisha and Brokeback Mountain in China.
Malaysia, China: A Hokkien Tale
Ktemoc Konsiders retells a story from the Chinese Ming Dynasty about how sugar canes saved the Hokkien, from whom many Chinese Malaysians are descended. “Since that fateful day, the Hokkiens...
China, Hong Kong: Self-Reflection
EastSouthWestNorth translates a column by China blogger Michael Anti praising EastSouthWestNorth‘s heroic translations of Chinese media reports: “If the Chinese blogosphere can be said to be like the world of...
China, South Korea, Japan, Iran: Nuclear Concerns
Mingi Hyun explains why China's concerns over nuclear proliferation are different from the Western powers. The reason why it doesn't want Iran to have nukes is because it worries South...
Hong Kong, China: Violent Thought
Glutter reprises a conversation she had with a person opposed to democracy in Hong Kong and who worried opposition weakens the Chinese government. She writes: “I asked him how did...
China: What Does China Want?
Sun Bin critiques a writer who lays out the six goals of the Chinese leadership. “They are in fact sub-goals of one simple goal: to feed its 1.3bn people and...
China: Exporting Language
What's China's hottest export? Language! says Horse's Mouth. “I always laugh to myself when I speak with fellow business majors and they tell me they're studying a language such as...
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