Posts by: C. Custer
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June 9, 2010
Are you a foreigner? Come take the poll and help us determine if stereotypes about foreigners are true or not.
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June 4, 2010
China's new restrictions on evidence obtained through torture won't do any good without giving the court the power to independently enforce them.
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May 27, 2010
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May 23, 2010
How Should China Treat North Korea?
The China-North Korea relationship has always been a point of contention with the West, but what should China do about the DPRK’s recent brazen aggressiveness?
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May 19, 2010
C. Custer explains his reservations and criticisms of the F*l*n G*ng as well as some of the organizations, publications, and actions associated with the group.
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May 16, 2010
Taixing Kindergarten Attacker Gets Death Penalty
Thoughts on the sentencing of Xu Yuyuan, the man who attacked a kindergarten in Taixing, Jiangsu last month, who said his motive was to vent against society.
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May 13, 2010
Why it's a terrible idea for the US government to fight for internet freedom by giving $1.5m to a group affiliated with a cult the Chinese government hates.
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May 5, 2010
Helping Your Local Government
“Doing one hundred good things for a leader is not as good as doing one bad thing together with a leader.”
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April 29, 2010
China's Christian Church wants to form a deeper connection with the anti-gay organization Anglican Global South. Does China really need more bigotry?
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April 26, 2010
Television Dating Shows in China vs. the US
The Chinese dating show “If You Are The One” (Fei Cheng Wu Rao) may be “edgy” in China, but it doesn’t compare to the crap flooding the airwaves in the US.
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April 22, 2010
Chinese authorities declared yesterday (4/21) to be a national day of mourning for the Qinghai Earthquake but is a "forced mourning period" a good idea?
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April 18, 2010
As the death toll for the recent Qinghai Earthquake in China increases, one has to ask: Who does the Chinese government fear more: the living or the dead?
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April 15, 2010
Why is Happy Farm, a simple game about farming land, so popular in China? Newsweek's Isaac Stone Fish takes a good question, & takes it about 5 steps too far.
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April 6, 2010
Escaping the Mines
This rescue is a miracle, and I’m sure the miners and their families are ecstatic, but China loses a hundred miners every year for each one they save. I’m no expert, but perhaps it’s time we started talking about why.
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April 2, 2010
Why are Americans so desperate to get students to China? Well, it might be because American students are, by and large, idiots.
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March 28, 2010
Today is Serf Liberation Day! But if a government-invented PR "holiday" falls in the forest, does anybody hear it?
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March 26, 2010
The Trouble With Carrots
Perhaps we’re seeing the beginning of China’s comeback on Google today, as Chinese netizens have discovered that simple search terms like “carrots” and “temperature” are not loading on Google, though they still work on Baidu. Why? These words share characters with the names of top Chinese leaders like Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao.
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March 23, 2010
Google Losing the Message
With all the debate about censorship, has everyone forgotten the real reason for Google’s pullout was that their systems were hacked [presumably] by China.
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March 14, 2010
The Chinese government's international PR problems on the "Tibet issue": Not engaging the Western public & being too vague or black-and-white to be believable.
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March 6, 2010
An English translation of Chinese writer and blogger Dr. Yang Hengjun's criticisms of China Premier Wen Jiabao's latest "internet chat" with Chinese netizens.
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March 5, 2010
How to be a Good Corrupt Official
Probably in response to this craziness, worker and blogger Wan Xiaodao has written a list of rules for corrupt officials….more »
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March 2, 2010
An analysis of China's porn crackdown: a discussion of porn's effects on society and the advantages of supporting a government-regulated pornographic industry.
