Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: September 15, 2011
Buying gold and allowing the yuan to be traded freely would weaken the US dollars dominance as the international reserve currency. The move would have major implications, making it more expensive for the US government to borrow money and to run perpetual trade and budget deficits. via China buys gold, challenges US dollar – Features [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: April 16, 2011
Ai’s detention has sparked an international outcry, and his case is far from alone. The last two months have seen dozens of lawyers, dissidents and activists being criminally detained and arrested or simply going missing in one of the toughest crackdowns for years. It appears to have been sparked by anonymous calls on websites overseas [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: December 5, 2010
The hacking of Google that forced the search engine to withdraw from mainland China was orchestrated by a senior member of the communist politburo, according to classified information sent by US diplomats to Hillary Clinton’s state department in Washington. via WikiLeaks cables blame Chinese government for Google hacking | Technology | guardian.co.uk.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: November 11, 2010
Xu Lindong’s confinement in a locked mental ward was all the more notable, his brother says, for one extraordinary fact: he wasn’t the least bit deranged. Angered by a dispute over land, he had merely filed a series of complaints against the local government. via Outspoken Chinese Risk Confinement in Mental Wards – NYTimes.com.
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 26, 2010
If the internet was like one big party where just about everything under the sun was happening, then China was treated like they were chaperoned by Google to censor things they did not want to see or hear. This could be very important news that Google refuses to censor for China anymore. Regardless of whether [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 8, 2009
The Chinese government has apparently found a new way to confront the dissemination of information when there are protests. Instead of suppressing it completely they are working on a preemptive method where they seize control before other media outlets have a chance to dig for the truth. This new strategy has a fancy new name [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 11, 2009
Sounds like China is moving further in the direction of hearing and seeing only what their government wants them to hear and see. Since much of the news has violent content, would this mean that Chinese people can no longer access world news? This is not to mention the fact that there is a very [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 5, 2009
Even after twenty years it is still shocking to hear how the Chinese government shot and killed their own people who were protesting in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese firewall is the ultimate in suppression, yet the U.S has a symbiotic relationship with the country that goes much deeper than just treasuries. It is in the [...]
