Teaching Τibet and ‘The Truth’“Frankly, though, I’m in the midst of ‘Τibet fatigue,’ there’s a lot of good material out there on the subject, but also a lot of crap, and the polemics and grandstanding on both sides of this emotionally-charged issue, much of it just noise without thought or blind loyalties and parochialism, remind me more of the bleachers at a Red Sox-Yankees game than learned discourse.” [Read] By Jeremiah // At Granite Studio // On October 5, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 5, 2008 // Under Tibet , PropagandaIllegal Baby part 2: I fought the law and the law won“‘We can’t issue a visa now. Your baby is not properly registered with the police. You’ll have to register him and pay a fine.’” [Read] By Will @ Imagethief // At Imagethief // On October 5, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 5, 2008 // Under Law , ParentingTaiwan Gets Its Weapons… At Least Some of ThemWashington’s backing of Taipei is one of the pillars of stability in East Asia. If the US stops selling Taiwan weapons, that could tempt China into being even more of a bully towards Taiwan than it already is. [Read] By John Pomfret // At Pomfret's China // On October 3, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 5, 2008 // Under Taiwan , MilitaryHu Jia: Six months and counting“Still, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the details of his case and treatment by the authorities, which are particularly egregious and symbolic of the way that Beijing deals with even the mildest of dissent.” [Read] By Simon Elegant // At Time: The China Blog // On October 3, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 5, 2008 // Under Dissent , Human RightsSkype messes up, badly.“Skype is now learning the lesson Yahoo! already learned the hard way: that if you leave your users’ privacy and security to your local partner to sort out without paying too much attention to details or thinking through how things might play out, you could burn your users badly and badly damage the credibility of your global brand.” [Read] By Rebecca MacKinnon // At RConversation // On October 3, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 5, 2008 // Under Internet , PrivacyWikipedia’s Jimmy Wales meets China’s censors“We didn’t discuss it. But, I am not cool with any censorship of Wikipedia. However, I do think it is much better for a few politically sensitive pages to be blocked than for everything to be blocked. And we will never cooperate with any blocking or censorship of neutral encyclopedic content.” [Read] By Rebecca MacKinnon // At RConversation // On October 1, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 5, 2008 // Under Internet , CensorshipWill a Nobel Peace Prize really hurt our feelings?“Those Westerners really are just fooling themselves! On one hand they fantasize about China coming to rescue their markets, and on the other hand go and tell China what to do and how to do it. Do they really think us Chinese are so easy to bully around?” [Read] By John Kennedy // At Global Voices // On September 28, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 4, 2008 // Under Feelings , The WestThe NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet AnonymityBut when the Chinese government and the NSA get together to enhance their ability to spy on us all, you have to wonder what’s gone wrong with the world.. [Read] By Bruce Schneier // At Schneier on Security // On September 18, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Oct 4, 2008 // Under Internet , PrivacyInterview with historian Paul Cohen“I started out with the intention of doing a book on Chinese sensitivity to national humiliation over the past century. However, in pursuit of this goal, I kept running into the story of King Goujian, which, I came to realize as I dug deeper, spoke not only to national humiliation but to much else as well.” [Read] At China Beat // On September 26, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Sep 28, 2008 // Under HistoryA Chinatown in Japan 米国人在东京“However, I must admit, Yokohama’s Chinatown probably has the cleanest streets of any Chinatown I have been to.” [Read] By Benjamin Ross // At Ben's Blog // On September 26, 2008Filed In Blogs // On Sep 28, 2008 // Under Japan , Chinatown- Next |
