The Chinese State Council recently released a white paper alleging that "Chinese citizens fully enjoy freedom of speech on the Internet." Oh really, is that so?
2 months after Google dismantled its internet search engine in China, the good news is that Google hasn't been blocked but the bad news is Baidu is stronger.
Please note that recent comments made by "Kai Pan" on many China blogs are actually made by an impostor who harbors some grudge against the real Kai Pan, er me.
Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce argues that Apple should move production of the iPad back to America given the problems at Foxconn. Hm...
As the number of Foxconn suicides increase, so has the attention and speculation. Let's take a look at the most common and popular narratives we're seeing.
china/divide was a group blog launched March 1, 2010 by three China bloggers: Stan Abrams, Charles Custer, and Kai Pan. Less than three months later, on May 21st, china/divide was blocked by China’s “Great Firewall”, becoming inaccessible to readers in China without proxies or VPNs. Nearly five months later and after a total of 132 published posts, china/divide was quietly disbanded, except for an occasional post or two by Kai when a comment on another site just won’t do.
Interesting post. I'm also curious if this was a face-to-face interview, because some of Spiegel's questions are framed in a rather unpleasant way. And if Ms....more »
Wow, after a 5 month hiatus, you come back with an interesting article. I am surprised that Fu Ying allowed Der Spiegel to give them these kind of questions. ...more »
Komrade Kaipan
nice article,
When I was reading this, was listening to.....
Song of the Article
I Wish
Franka Potente + Thomas D
http://www.you...more »
Okay. Okay. Pretty smooth responses and probably even better when reframed. Will they allay fears and suspicions? Highly unlikely. Q and A engagements such as t...more »
Hey SKC, no, not really blogging or commenting much these days but as you can see, I've just thrown up a long post that started off as a rare comment. Yeah, I'v...more »
I stopped reading your long post at "...the sheer size of China only make such work more difficult...".
The west have been working very hard trying to break ...more »
An interesting analysis. Thanks. I was encouraged by some of the questions by Speigel as well as some of the answers by Madame Fu.
Eventually, in the future,...more »
Hi KP,
are you still blogging? Abrams and Custer have their own blogs; are you going to start one up as well? I've always respected your methodical and log...more »