This article also appears on The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. After the New York Times published an article detailing the four months during which the venerated publication was the subject of hacking attacks traced to China, the news spread on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. Despite internal censorship measures and the blocking of [...]
This article also appeared on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. An active Beijing-based micro-blogger named Dongdong Wang (@東東旺) recently tweeted this image on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter: At first glance, it doesn’t look like much: Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao (left) and outgoing President Hu Jintao (right) appear to share a laugh following a [...]
On Thursday Oct 26 The New York Times published a 4,700 word article on corruption among the members of Wen Jiabao’s family, alleging that they amassed a fortune of $2.7 billion through shadowy business dealings. Appearing on the front page of both New York Times’ English and Chinese websites, both sites were completely blocked in China [...]
As citizens across the globe become better connected, it’s not surprising that politicians find themselves plugging into the Internet to access citizen voices and gauge public opinion. Governments and officials of various nations have established Twitter and Facebook profiles, providing a medium to listen to their constituents. In recent years, the appearance of high-profile politicians [...]
Politicians around the world have embraced social media as a means of communicating with their followers. U.S. President Barack Obama’s Twitter account is prolific, employing a small staff to release 10 to 20 tweets a day. Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, brings social media to a whole new level as he shovels out snowed-in citizens [...]
On a high-speed train in the Orient, a murder has taken place under cover of night. On April 11, the public awoke to find that the political career of Bo Xilai, China’s “only celebrity politician,” had finally died. The news did not come as a surprise; Bo’s career suffered a brutal stabbing a month ago and [...]
Just minutes after CNN declared Rick Santorum winner of Louisiana’s Saturday GOP primary, China’s netizens were already posting their Sunday-morning reactions — in sentence and smiley-face form — on the country’s most popular microblogging sites. “Don’t get excited too soon,” one Tencent Weibo user warned. “But at least it’s a step towards hope.” Another user [...]
Mr. Xu Jingbo (@徐静波微博), chief of AS@IA, a Japan-based media outlet focused on China, reports, “A CPPCC delegate said in a group discussion that, in today’s China, you are lying to me, I’m lying to you, and everyone is lying to Premier Wen. Premier Wen, with no clue, is still reading off his reports.” {{Chinese version}} [[Chinese version]] 一位政协委员在小组讨论会上说：中国现在的情况是＂你骗我，我骗你，大家都骗温总理。温总理，不知道，还在那里做报告。 [[Chinese version]] [...]
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