The New York Times
China Holds Firm on Software Filter, U.S. Firms Say
BEIJING — American computer makers say the Chinese government has not backed down from a requirement that Internet censorship software be installed on all computers sold in China after July 1, despite reports this week that the rule had been relaxed.
Editorial
China’s Computer Folly
China has accomplished remarkable things in the past 20 years, including building one of the world’s largest economies. Computers helped speed that development — and will be even more important in the future. So Beijing’s decision to require that all new personal computers sold in China contain software that bars access to certain Internet content seems particularly self-destructive and foolish.
The New York Times Travel Guide for China
Op-Ed Contributor
China Tests the Waters
HONG KONG — China is testing its influence in every direction, trying to balance its need to be seen as a fair global player with its nationalist instincts, to balance a genuine internationalism against the paranoia that comes naturally to a closed political system. This week the locus has been the Ural city of Yekaterinburg, host to the first official meeting of the BRIC — the catchy acronym invented by Goldman Sachs to make a group from the four largest emerging markets, China, India, Brazil and Russia. If the meeting showed anything it was that their strategic economic interests are very different, though tactical alliances do occur.
Lesson for China in Smoot-Hawley
A request from Beijing that local governments “Buy China” is worrying — and hypocritical. Even as President Hu Jintao joined leaders of Brazil, Russia and India at a summit meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in calling for an end to protectionism, a diktat from several Chinese ministries suggested that government projects should favor domestic suppliers in spending some $586 billion of fiscal stimulus money. Such doublespeak is dangerous. Countries with bloated export sectors shouldn’t throw stones.
Asia Times Online
Flaws in China's digital dissidents
By Alice Liu
BEIJING - Despite having a reputation in the West as trailblazing citizen journalists, many of China's young bloggers are seen by Chinese as egocentric, showy and self-serving. Most come from the "me generation", a derisive term for youths born after the nation began its strictly enforced one-child policy in 1979.
Kaixin – Yep, that is Kaixin’s observation also. Much noise and heat but no call for democracy, except at the fringes. The youth that Kaixin speak to lead a comfortable middle class existence. They are all only children pampered by parents and often grand-parents who live with them. Graeme, being an only child himself, has long pointed out the looming issue of a generation of only children taking power in China. They will probably throw an izzy fit when the don’t get their own way. AND, there is a majority of males, so imagine all those hormones with nowhere to go.
On a serious note, they are also fiercely patriotic and have used their tech-democracy to support China on several issues. They may be a-political on a domestic level, but they are aware of China’s growing place in the world. It is also a generation that, like all generations before it, will throw up the necessary talent to lead China.
OBAMA, CHANGE AND CHINA, Part 5
Group of Two the wrong number
By Henry C K Liu
As former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Group of Two" (or G-2) concept of a US-China convergence in geopolitical interests is not yet official US policy, China is likely to merely keep monitoring signs of its evolution in US policymaking without direct formal official response, while exploiting the concept's diplomatic possibilities for improving bilateral relations
Kaixin - A serious and in-depth read. Well worth the time.
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