On February 27, People’s Daily posted a long list containing 2,987 names on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. These names are completely unknown to the average Chinese person, yet these are the supposed elected representatives of China’s 1.3 …
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“I am afraid when the phone rings, afraid of seeing people, and afraid of hearing the door bell. Why? Because I can neither stand nor sit; can’t say yes or no; can’t speak the truth …
Read MorePolitical theorists, put on a suit, shine your shoes, and brush up on your Mandarin. Your finest hour may be about to arrive. The ruling Chinese Communist Party has yet to embrace democracy, but not …
Read MoreThe U.S. presidential election is less than ten weeks away. Anyone with a stake in the result is watching, and that means most of the people in the world, including a vast number of people …
Read MoreTAIPEI, Taiwan — President Chiang Ching-kuo today decreed the end of martial law imposed by his Nationalist Party 38 years ago when it fled to this island after the communists took over mainland China. (LA …
Read MoreTAIPEI, Taiwan — President Chiang Ching-kuo today decreed the end of martial law imposed by his Nationalist Party 38 years ago when it fled to this island after the communists took over mainland China. (LA …
Read MoreAs China’s youth surged forward to protest the plan to build a molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan Province, famous Chinese blogger and youth leader Han Han has weighed in. Although Han has previously expressed public …
Read MoreAs China’s youth surged forward to protest the plan to build a molybdenum copper plant in Shifang, Sichuan Province, famous Chinese blogger and youth leader Han Han has weighed in. Although Han has previously expressed public …
Read MoreShortly after China’s Party mouthpiece, Global Times, announced that China has long been a type of democracy, Qiao Mengke, an elementary school student from Zhengzhou, Henan province, supplied proof that democratic practice in China has …
Read MoreShortly after China’s Party mouthpiece, Global Times, announced that China has long been a type of democracy, Qiao Mengke, an elementary school student from Zhengzhou, Henan province, supplied proof that democratic practice in China has …
Read MoreAnd the hits keep on comin’. You can always count on Global Times, the tabloid owned by Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, for entertaining editorials over your morning soy milk. After hits like “some degree …
Read MoreiSunAffairs, an iPad-based magazine, put together this democracy map of East and South Asia based on data from The Democracy Index 2011 by the Economist Intelligence Unit. It is worth noting that China ranks ahead …
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