Category Archives: Government

Failed jasmine protests in China and the government’s fears

The jasmine revolution doesn’t come to China, but the government isn’t taking any chances.

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Wen Jiabao’s Shenzhen speech and political reform in China

A podcast about the implications for political reform of Premier Wen Jiabao’s speech in Shenzhen.

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The China Model?

Is there a “China Model” or a “Beijing Consensus”?

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Government double-speak about earthquakes and oil prices

The Sina microblog page of user Jiandansue has a widely distributed news items headline montage.

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Ministry of Culture notice on the National Day of Mourning

The Ministry of Culture issues instructions to suspend all entertainment activities for the day on April 21.

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In search of a useful government website

New Weekly takes the Qixian cobalt scare as the starting point for a look at how the government fails to make use of the Internet as a communication tool.

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The controversy of the 29-year-old mayor

The election of 29-year-old mayor, Zhou Senfeng in the city of Yicheng, Hubei province has sparked debates in the Chinese media and online blogs, some commenting on whether his youthful election is because of family and political background.

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Wen Jiabao takes a phantom train

State media reported that Wen Jiabao took the nonexistent D18 train back to Beijing.

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NDRC refutes rumors, raises the price of fuel anyway

Last week, NDRC said it wouldn’t raise the price of oil. This week, it has.

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“Human rights” is no longer a sensitive term

In reaction to China’s first “two-year human right action plan”, the April 20 issue of China Newsweek has an interesting retrospective of what they term “the tracks of human rights in China”, and last week’s Southern Weekend a full page feature in the legal section that talks about how the action plan could promote reform of the constitution as well as legal reform.

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