“We Shanghainese value our image. We don’t want to lose face in front of the entire world…”
Google leaving China will not be as big a revolution in the business world as you think. Getting excited over China’s loss of face may be playing into its hand.
Google.cn features manipulated & censored search results, but it still offers Chinese internet users a choice other than Baidu. Less choice is less freedom.
Kaiser Kuo speaks at TEDxHonolulu about the crisis in US-China relationships on a person-to-person level, exacerbated by large-scale and unmediated contact over the internet.
Americans outraged by the Empire State Building honoring the People’s Republic of China’s 60th anniversary with red and yellow lighting reveal their own bias & hypocrisy.
How did Thomas Friedman’s mere suggestion that China’s one-party autocracy is more efficient at making decisions label him as demanding Communist revolution?
ULN, the blogger of CHINAYOUREN English and Spanish-language blog about China currently blocked by China’s GFW, shares his insights into Chinese net censorship.
CNR’s Weekly Review highlights some of the most interesting and can’t miss blog posts from the English China blogosphere. This week: June 21-27, 2009.
20 excerpts from Mark Anthony Jones’ illuminating essay discussing what happened and who to blame for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests & eventual “massacre.”