Tag Archives: china

Ignoring China Won’t Change China

April 7, 2008 – 7:23 am

Konnie Huq nearly had the Olympic torch snatched out of her hands, but even that wasn’t enough to make her reconsider what the Olympics in China means.
In a BBC interview Huq says that “taking part in the procession doesn’t mean I condone China in anyway. She goes on to say, “I believe in the [...]

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Cuba Versus China (the politics of being useful)

March 19, 2008 – 9:18 pm

Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the
The sites, in English, French and Spanish, had been online since 1998. Some, like www.cuba-hemingway.com, were [...]

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Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Shi landed in trouble three years ago when the Chinese government prohibited journalists to report on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
When Shi forwarded the notice to human rights groups, the Chinese government pressured Yahoo to give them the name of the account holder, and they did so. Shi [...]

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US Government’s Slippery Slope Into Our Lives Doesn’t Excuse China or the US Companies that Help China

August 14, 2007 – 9:09 am

There was an article on TechDirt yesterday that made an interesting connection and then bizarrely came up with a ridiculous conclusion.
The article pointed to a NY Times article about China’s high-tech surveillance campaign backed by technology from US companies, and connects that to two Boston Globe articles about the US efforts to track its citizens[1][2].
The [...]

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