Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'brainwashing'
Arrests Ahead of Tournament
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 25, 2010 Police clear Beijing of dissidents ahead of a star-studded martial arts event. Police in China's capital have removed a victim of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown from the city ahead of a high-profile martial...
Politics Intrude in Mosque
by Radio Free Asia03 August 2010 A Chinese propaganda event in a religious space offends Uyghurs Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority in northwest China have expressed anger and concern about controls over imams after a local Communist Party committee...
China's Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
By Edward Wong | The New York Times24 July 2010 They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the roof of the world. Han...
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
China starts trial against Tibet environmentalist
By Christopher Bodeen - The Associated Press via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News (Canada)June 22, 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist once praised by Chinese state media as a model philanthropist went on trial Tuesday in western China on what supporters say are politically...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
China AIDS Activist Flees to U.S. After Harassment
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via abcNEWSMay 10, 2010 China AIDS activist leaves for U.S. with family after government harassment intensified A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has fled China for the United States with his wife and...
Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, Liu Xiaobo
A New York Times EditorialApril 13, 2010 Washington and Beijing are, rightly, eager to lower tensions. After President Obama met President Hu Jintao of China at the White House on Monday, officials said they had agreed to work together to...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
The Dark Side of China Aid
By CHRISTOPHER WALKER and SARAH COOK | The New York Times (Christopher Walker is director of studies and Sarah Cook is an Asia researcher at Freedom House)March 25, 2010 A growing number of developing countries receive billions of dollars a...
China to toughen requirements for reporters
By Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 11, 2010 China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that includes training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the...
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
Argentine judge asks China arrests over Falun Gong
By Luis Andres Henao | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News December 23, 2009 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in...
Another Clue to How China Managed Obama's Visit
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 05, 2009 In case President Obama is curious, some students who went to his town hall meeting in Shanghai last month wonder how he gets along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
China 'black jails' shield leaders from complaints
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsNovember 12, 2009 Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that mainland police refuse to acknowledge or crack down...
Decision time for China...
Gulf Daily News - The Voice of BahrainOctober 07, 2009 Sixty years ago, his army victorious, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square and announced a new era for China after a terrible civil war...
Uighur Film to Show In Taiwan, Angering China
By REUTERS | The New York TimesSeptember 20, 2009 Taiwan's second-largest city said Sunday it would show a film about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer further angering China which is still fuming about the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the island....
Tibetan TV Dishes Pulled
By RADIO FREE ASIAJune 21, 2009 Tibetans cite a new government effort to control what news they hear. KATHMANDU--Chinese authorities have begun to remove satellite dishes in a Tibetan-populated region of China in an effort to block access to foreign...
China's Computer Folly
A New York Times EditorialJune 12, 2009 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....
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
Opinion: Dissent remains silenced in China
By Wu'er Kaixi | CNNMay 31, 2009 Editor's note: Wu'er Kaixi was a student leader in 1989, and since then has been living in exile outside of China. On June 4 this year, it will have been 20 years since...
How the Family of a Dissident Fled China
By David W. Chen | The New York Times Sunday, May 10, 2009 Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most irrepressible dissidents, began the day of Jan. 9 the same way as most days since security officials had begun watching him...
A Manifesto on Freedom Sets China's Persecution Machinery in Motion
By Michael Wines | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 May 2009 Behind the west Beijing apartment building where Liu Xia keeps a fifth-floor flat, the police have built a guardhouse. Its purpose is not to protect Ms. Liu, who seeks no...
Netizens Defy Tiananmen Silencing
By RADIO FREE ASIAApril 22, 2009 As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship. HONG KONG An article criticizing China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing has...
China's Other Minority, Seen by One of Its Own
By Howard W. French | The New York Times (Books of the Times)April 23, 2009 It is the awkward fate of China, more than any other country, to be arriving late to any number of parties where most other revelers...
China Rights Activist Beaten in Cemetery
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesApril 07, 2009 Last Saturday was tomb-sweeping day, when the Chinese traditionally honor the dead. Sun Wenguang, a 75-year-old retired professor, was one of many to visit the cemetery. Apparently, though, he chose...
Gao Zhisheng's Family Safe in New York
By The Epoch TimesMarch 15, 2009 The family of respected Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng arrived in New York at JFK airport on Saturday night at about 10 PM. Gao's wife Geng He, and their two children, aged 16...
Oasis China concerts are shelved
By BBC World News 02 March 2009 Oasis' debut concerts in China have been cancelled after the authorities revoked the band's licences to play, deeming them "unsuitable". Shows in Beijing and Shanghai due to take place next month have been...
Obama speech censored in China
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJanuary 21, 2009 China has censored parts of the new US president's inauguration speech that have appeared on a number of websites. Live footage of the event on state television also cut away from...
China says within rights to block some websites
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 16, 2008 China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the country was within its rights to block websites with content illegal under Chinese law, including websites that referred to China and Taiwan as two...
Whistle-Blowers in Chinese City Sent to Mental Hospital
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES09 December 2008 Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistle-blowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them...
China blasts Sarkozy's Dalai Lama meeting as 'unwise'
By EUbusiness.comDecember 07, 2008 Chinese state media on Sunday blasted French President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama as an "unwise move" that has undermined relations with Beijing. Sarkozy, who currently holds the EU presidency, met the exiled Tibetan...
Chinese Activist Wins Rights Prize
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times October 24, 2008 Hu Jia, a soft-spoken, bespectacled advocate for democracy and human rights in China, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe's most prestigious human rights prize, on...
Wary of Islam, China Tightens a Vise of Rules
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 19, 2008 KHOTAN, China -- The grand mosque that draws thousands of Muslims each week in this oasis town has all the usual trappings of piety: dusty wool carpets on which to...
The Quiet Afterlife of a Chinese Dissident
By Andreas Lorenz | Der Spiegel (Germany)September 03, 2008 Bao Tong, a former member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, fell out of favor and wound up in prison. Now he lives under house arrest in Beijing,...
Protests still unwelcome in Beijing
By BBC NewsAugust 14, 2008 China has set aside three parks during the Olympics, to allow people to demonstrate. But, as the BBC's Michael Bristow finds out, the parks are empty and those who apply for permission to protest are...
Media peek into China gymnast's life
By John Leicester - Associated Press | Deseret NewsAugust 16, 2008 Brief encounter with medalist reveals totally sheltered life BEIJING -- For a few brief moments, it was as if a curtain had parted. We had one of China's young...
Uneasy relations: China and the foreign press
By TIM SULLIVAN | Associated Press Writer via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAssociated Press Writer Gillian Wong contributed to this reportAugust 13, 2008 Over at the media village, China is battering them with petty kindnesses. There's one person to open the door to...
China's leaders steer Games wrong way
By Christine Brennan - USA TODAYAugust 07, 2008 The popular notion is that the story of the Beijing Olympic Games begins this Friday night, 8.8.08, as the saying goes, with the opening ceremony in the glowing-red Bird's Nest. But that's...
Under Olympics House Arrest
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 1st, 2008 Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be...
Which websites has China blocked?
By Michael Bristow | BBC News, Main Press Centre, Beijing July 30, 2008 Internet censorship is nothing new to people logging on in China. The government blocks a number of sites it considers sensitive. It now appears that thousands...
China paper censored for Tiananmen photo
By Anita Chang | Associated Press - via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJuly 25, 2008 An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989...
China's Olympic muddle
The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2008 Like a marathoner at the finish line, China seems whipped. It struggled two decades to host the Olympics that open in three weeks. It has spent about $50 billion, pumped up its athletes,...
Around the World, Activists Assemble to Press China on Rights
By Robin Shulman | The Washington Post 08 July 2008 Marking the one-month countdown to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, activists gathered here and in cities around the world Tuesday to call on China to ease crackdowns on...
Olympics haven't helped China's human rights: report
By Aileen McCabe | canada.com - where perspectives connectJuly 06, 2008 With just one month to go before the opening ceremony, it is increasingly obvious worldwide efforts to use the Beijing Olympics to hold China's feet to the fire on...
China media clamps slammed a month before Olympics
By James Pomfret | REUTERS | via yahoo!news UK&IrelandJuly 07, 2008 A month before the Olympics, China continues to severely breach its pledge to allow full media freedoms, harassing and restricting foreign journalists in Tibet and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch...
China's Inside Game
By April Rabkin | The New York TimesJuly 02, 2008 Last week, amid continuing calls from activists in Europe and the United States to boycott the Olympics to protest China's record on human rights, came a rare rebuke from the...
China Blocks U.S. Legislators' Meeting
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times July 02, 2008 Two United States representatives who were in Beijing to lobby for the release of more than 700 political prisoners had hoped to have dinner on Sunday with a group...
Jailed and Tortured Fighting for Free Speech
By Ben Hurley | Epoch Times Australia StaffJune 27, 2008 Somewhere in the world, the warm fire crackles as giggling children adorn their Christmas tree with the colourful lights that William Huang made in jail. A United States living room...
China Internet control unacceptable: European Commissioner
By Agence France Presse June 21, 2008 It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium. "We say for instance to the Chinese, very clearly so, that...
Reporters kicked out of China city where schools collapsed
By Dan Martin - Agence France Presse | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJune 12, 2008 Police on Thursday kicked foreign journalists out of a city where the collapse of several schools in China's earthquake drew charges of corruption from parents of...
Spotlight on China, darkness in Tibet
By Dan Southerland | The Christian Science Monitor June 11, 2008 China's media covered the country's earthquake tragedy more openly than any past disaster. But the Chinese government still maintains a blackout over news from Tibet, which experienced its biggest...
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Chinese Embassy Secretly Organizes Overseas Chinese Students to Support Olympic Torch Relay in Japan
By Wang Riyue | The Epoch Times April 25, 2008 Chinese Student and Scholar Associations (CSSA) in Japanese universities have received notice from the Chinese Embassy, asking them to mobilize all possible manpower to Nagano on April 26 to support...
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