Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'freedom'
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Tibetan Monks Still Held in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia August 28, 2008 Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai. Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained after widespread protests against Chinese rule earlier this year were deported from the...
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 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...
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...
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Tiananmen Square still an almost taboo topic
By Mary-Anne Toy | The Sydney Morning HeraldJune 04, 2008 Of all the taboos in modern China, the violent quelling of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests on June 4, 1989, remains the most sensitive. Nineteen years later, China is now the...
Stern rules for foreigners at Olympics
By USA TODAY June 02, 2008 Foreigners attending the Beijing Olympics better behave -- or else. The Beijing Olympic organizing committee issued a stern, nine-page document Monday that covers 57 topics. Written in Chinese only and posted on the official...
China Falls Short on Vows for Olympics
By Jill Drew and Maureen Fan | The Washington PostApril 21, 2008 China has spent billions of dollars to fulfill its commitment to stage a grand Olympics. Athletes will compete in world-class stadiums. New highways and train lines crisscross Beijing....
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...
Indian minister's China visit cancelled over Tibet row
By THE STRAITS TIMES (Singapore) March 27, 2008 NEW DELHI has cancelled a proposed visit to Beijing by Trade Minister Kamal Nath after China summoned the Indian envoy over Tibetan protests in India, a report said on Thursday. Mr Nath...
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 Terrorizes Tibet
A New York Times Editorial March 18, 2008 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 and the Ghosts of Tiananmen
By Bill Powell | TIME Magazine March 17, 2008 It is still nearly five months before the Olympic torch is to be lit in Beijing, officially starting the 29th summer Olympics. But, diplomats in the Chinese capital believe that a...
Bjork makes 'free Tibet' gesture
By BBC NewsMarch 04, 2008 The Icelandic singer, Bjork, has caused controversy among fans in China by shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of a concert in Shanghai. The cry followed a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk...
China Moves to Control Online Video
By Radio Free Asia 04 January 2008 China's government has issued a stringent new set of rules which will ban all but state-owned corporations from making and uploading video to the Internet. The new regulations were issued jointly Dec. 31...
China Censors a Film, Then Bans It Entirely
The New York TimesJanuary 05, 2008 China has pulled Li Yu's "Lost in Beijing," a movie whose sexually explicit scenes were already censored, from theaters and banned its producer from the film business for two years, The Associated Press reported....
Yahoo Betrays Free Speech
The New York Times | EditorialDecember 2nd, 2007 For a company that ostensibly believes in the Internet's liberating power, Yahoo has a gallingly backward understanding of the value of free expression. The company helped Beijing's state police uncover the Internet...
China: US Navy spat no misunderstanding
By Anita Chang | Associated Press | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsNovember 29, 2007 China's last-minute cancellation of a U.S. Navy visit to Hong Kong was not the result of a misunderstanding, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday, adding that ties...
China block on wife of activist
By BBC News August 24, 2007 The wife of a jailed human rights activist in China has been prevented from leaving the country to pick up an award on his behalf, friends say. Yuan Weijing had been due to travel...
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