Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'democracy'
The yin and yang of human rights in China
By Frank Ching | The Japan Times September 3, 2010 The only lady vice minister in China's Foreign Ministry is Fu Ying, a well-coiffed, mild-mannered 57-year-old, an ethnic Mongol who speaks flawless English, who has served as ambassador to the...
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...
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...
Lawyers' Licenses Withheld
By Radio Free AsiaJuly 18, 2010 Chinese authorities use the annual license inspection to intimidate lawyers. Chinese authorities have refused to renew the professional licenses of several prominent rights lawyers in this year's inspection. Other rights lawyers were forced to...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
Uyghurs: New Details on Arrests
By Radio Free Asia May 26, 2010 Chinese authorities are still detaining a number of Uyghurs without charge after the Urumqi unrest. New accounts detailing the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China in the wake of deadly unrest show...
U.S. risks China's ire with decision to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong
By John Pomfret | The Washington PostMay 12, 2010 The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to...
China jails 3 online activists; many show support
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via Google NewsApril 16, 2010 A Chinese court jailed three people Friday who posted material on the Internet to help an illiterate woman pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter's death, one defendant's...
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...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
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...
Doubts On Reform Pledges
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 08, 2010 China's premier promises a more open society, but his speech to parliament meets with skepticism. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater oversight of government by ordinary citizens and media, but analysts and netizens...
China's Defiance Stirs Fears for Missing Dissident
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesFebruary 03, 2010 A year ago this week, Chinese security agents made a midnight visit to the home of Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most high-profile human rights lawyers, and led him away....
France berates China over sentencing of dissident
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 26, 2009France chastised China on Saturday for jailing dissident Liu Xiaobo and reminded Beijingof its commitments to dialogue on human rights with the European Union.Liu, China's most prominent dissident, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political...
China Indicts Prominent Dissident
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Liu Xiaobo, one of China's best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, was indicted Thursday on charges...
Lawyers, Activists Denied Access
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 18, 2009 Chinese rights lawyers and petitioners were closely watched and prevented from meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Beijing. Rights lawyers and activists in Beijing during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit...
Honor China, Not Its Communism
By Investors Business DailySeptember 30, 2009 Public Relations: The Empire State Building this week will illuminate red and yellow, celebrating China's 60 years of communist rule. There are many things to appreciate about China, but communism isn't one of them....
New Curbs in Tibet
By Radio Free Asia28 September 2009 Tibetans face increased restrictions on prayer and travel ahead of a sensitive Chinese anniversary. As authorities prepare for sensitive anniversary celebrations across China, a growing security presence in the country's west is limiting the...
China Clamps Down on Internet Ahead of 60th Anniversary
By Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 25, 2009 Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country...
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....
China bans petitioners in Beijing
By Shirong Chen - BBC News15 August 2009 The Chinese government has issued a new regulation to stop petitioners from travelling to the capital, Beijing. Legal officials from Beijing will now visit people with complaints in the provinces in order...
China in a woman's grip
By Saad Al-Ghamdi | Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia) | via ArabNews (Saudi Arabia)August 16, 2009 Millions of Uighur Muslims in China's Xinjiang province have been the victims of persecution and exile or execution simply because they demand a dignified recognition of...
Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES10 August 2009 China's nascent legal rights movement, already reeling from a crackdown on crusading lawyers, the kidnapping of defense witnesses and the shuttering of a prominent legal clinic, has been shaken by...
China's ethnic tinderbox
By Dru Gladney for BBC World News09 July 2009 The recent Urumqi and Lhasa riots have shattered the myth of a monolithic China, writes China and Uighur expert Professor Dru Gladney. Foreigners and the Chinese themselves typically picture China's population...
Beijing Adds Curbs on Access to Internet
By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesJune 25, 2009 The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an...
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...
Tiananmen Square Remembered: Three Participants Tell Their Stories
The Epoch TimesJune 1, 2009 On April 14, 1989 in Beijing, students began gathering to honor the death of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded former general secretary of the Communist Party. The students began calling for a number of reforms of...
Mao Portrait Protesters Get Asylum
By RADIO FREE ASIAMay 19, 2009 Two men jailed for a high-profile act of vandalism in 1989 get U.S. asylum and treatment for trauma suffered in prison. HONG KONG--Two protesters who helped splatter Mao Zedong's portrait with red paint during...
Secret Memoir Offers Look Inside China's Politics
By Erik Eckholm | THE NEW YORK TIMESMay 15, 2009 In May 1989, as he feuded with hard-line party rivals over how to handle the students occupying Tiananmen Square, China's Communist Party chief requested a personal audience with Deng Xiaoping,...
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...
US House reaffirms commitment to Taiwan
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 25, 2009 Congress voted Tuesday to reaffirm the US commitment to ensuring Taiwan's security, despite protests from China which claims the island. The House of Representatives in a voice vote approved...
China Terrorizes Tibet
The New York Times EditorialMarch 18, 2009 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in Tibet....
China "mothers" urge reckoning with 1989 bloodshed
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsFebruary 27, 2009 A group representing families of demonstrators killed or maimed in the armed crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago has urged China to name the dead, denouncing official silence...
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 jails democracy activist for 6 years
The Associated Press | MSNBC.comJanuary 08, 2009 Veteran campaigner attempted to establish opposition political party A 65-year-old democracy activist who tried to set up an opposition party in China has been sentenced to six years in jail, a human rights...
Petition Urges China to Free Dissident
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESDecember 23, 2008 More than 160 prominent writers, scholars and human rights advocates outside mainland China have signed an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to release a well-known intellectual and dissident...
Chinese Court Jails More Tibetans
By RADIO FREE ASIADecember 22, 2008 More jail terms are handed down to Tibetans implicated in widespread anti-China protests earlier this year. KATHMANDU--Authorities in China's southwestern province of Sichuan have handed down further prison terms to Tibetans detained in anti-China...
Post-Olympics China Turns Its Back On Internet Censorship Promises
By Jason Mick | DAILYTECH.COMDecember 18, 2008 Just when you thought China had softened on web crack-downs, it returns to its old ways China has not exactly been known for its great freedom of speech. Its citizens' internet access is tightly...
As Rome Burns, China Won't Talk
By John Pomfret | The Washington Post | NewsweekDecember 01, 2008 So the global economy is in meltdown, Europe and China are both facing the prospect of a seriously ugly downturn. They'd scheduled a summit for this week. You'd think...
China cancels summit with EU over Dalai Lama visit
By Steven Erlanger | INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNENovember 26, 2008 PARIS: China has postponed an annual summit with the European Union originally scheduled for next Monday, the Europeans said in a statement on Wednesday. The Chinese were evidently angered by a...
China Irritated with 'Slanderous' U.N. Report on Rights
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESNovember 25, 2008 The Chinese government reacted angrily on Monday to what it called a slanderous United Nations report that alleges systemic torture of political and criminal detainees. The government said the authors...
Everyone's a Critic: China Blasts "Chinese Democracy"
By Dave Itzkoff | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2008 It's no secret how the Chinese government feels about democracy. Now it has weighed in on "Chinese Democracy," too. The Associated Press reported that The Global Times, the official tabloid...
Crisis Hits Chinese Workers
By RADIO FREE ASIA (credits at end of article)November 04, 2008 Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in China's formerly booming coastal cities are heading home amid factory closures and labor disputes sparked by the global downturn. SHENZHEN, China: Worker...
China dissidents eye uncertain post-Olympics landscape
TODAYonline.com (Singapore) | MediaCorp PressOctober 21, 2008 Despite hopes the Olympics would improve human rights, China's crackdown on dissidents before and during the Games has likely set the stage for a lasting period of even tighter controls, government critics say.Beijing-based...
'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China
By CNN - The World's Largest NetworkSeptember 17, 2008 The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games...
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,...
China's Rulers Stay Tough Despite the Olympics Hoopla
By Paul Mooney | U.S. News & World ReportAugust 26, 2008 China was intent on making a splash with the 2008 Olympics, which concluded on Sunday, and it did just that. The games are being described as the best ever,...
Too Old and Frail to Re-educate? Not in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesAugust 21, 2008 In the annals of people who have struggled against Communist Party rule, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying are unlikely to merit even a footnote. The two women, both in their...
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...
China To Athlete Activist: Stay Out!
By Sean Gregory | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNNAugust 06, 2008 Last week, Joey Cheek was pumped. Over lunch in New York City, I talked to the wide-eyed Olympic champion about his upcoming trip to Beijing, where the ex-speedskater...
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...
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,...
Stand-off at Beijing 'nail house'
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJuly 16, 2008 A Beijing family are refusing to move from their city centre home, despite a court order threatening to throw them out. Family members say they are not being offered enough compensation...
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 meeting with dissidents
U.S. News & World ReportJuly 01, 2008 Police blocked Chinese dissident lawyers from attending a meeting with two visiting U.S. lawmakers, the lawmakers and a human rights groups said Tuesday. Police either took the lawyers away or placed them under...
Report: Merkel to miss Beijing Olympics
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL March 29, 2008 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first world leader to announce she will not be at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, a German official confirmed.Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in addition to confirming...
Unrest at Shuttered Gateway to Tibet
By Jake Hooker | The New York Times March 26, 2008 In the back room of a Tibetan teahouse, three robed monks spoke in whispers. One monk said his home in Luhuo County had been littered with fliers calling on...
China Delays Hong Kong Elections
By Donald Greenlees and Keith Bradsher | The New York Times December 30, 2007 Chinese officials announced Saturday that Hong Kong would have to wait at least another decade for democratic elections to select its leader, and for more than...
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