Tea Leaf Nation

It’s 2013 in China already, where the clock runs 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Standard Time. As cheers erupted from Beijing to Shanghai to Chengdu, wishes and reflections for the new year also rained down on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging platform that is the equivalent of China’s largest public square. A search on [...]

On December 18 2012, an opinion piece titled “The Internet Is Not Outside the Law” was published on the front page of the People’s Daily, a print media in China considered a mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party. The commentary read in part: “Considering how fast [the Internet] has developed, how simple it is to [...]