China Beyond The Wall

group of former Chinese officials has called on the government to end media censorship in an open letter published online, the South China Morning Post reported. The letter said the lack of free speech in China is a “scandal,” the Morning Post reported. Signatories of the letter include Li Rui, former deputy head of the [...]

 Map: China’s investment in world resources    China’s growth is phenomenal – everybody is writing about it. Everyone who’s been there will spout anecdotes of skyscrapers that erect themselves in a matter of days; of instances where three layers of road exist as fly-overs; and of an intricate network of impressively fast trains. China is [...]

You’ve read it: apparently the government crawlers and search bots didn’t particularly like our post about VPNs and proxies… therefore we got “harmonised”! China Beyond The Wall is indeed unreachable for the people trapped on the wrong side of the Great Firewall.

China has traditionally taken a different attitude towards negotiation and political discourse. During the period when Zhou Enlai was a very active diplomat, Chinese diplomacy established a tone and approach that still characterises Chinese diplomacy today – it is that of the “third way”. The Chinese gained huge recognition for a new brand of subtle [...]

The usual anti-corruption campaign uncovered 22,884 “small coffers” of embezzled public funds. High-level cadres possibly involved.

In brief: “The West shoud pump more money in foreign aid… although we don’t need it”.

As China consolidates its relations with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan (both SCO members), it is useful to know what this Central-Asia international organisation is…

Chinese President Hu Jintao has unveiled the Kazakh section of a 7,000km (4,300 miles) natural gas pipeline joining Central Asia to China.

I dig this slider… it’s sleek.

Awesome picture… not really.