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CCTV has come out today to say a Tweet sent from its account yesterday was done illegally. The Tweet drew substantial attention because it announced that Zhou Yongkang, former PSB czar and Politburo Standing Committee member, was under investigation. Not... read more »
I don’t consider myself a China expert by any means, but I do feel like I’ve been around long enough to begin seeing some trends. One is the “story of the day’, which comes around every 20-45 days or so and galvanizes... read more »
The Asian American Journalists Association organized a roundtable at the Foreign Correspondents Club tonight on self-censorship in Hong Kong, an issue which is prescient in light of the recent Chief Executive election, national education protests,... read more »
We’re fortunate in Hong Kong to be largely out-of-reach of the more Communist element of the People’s Republic. While going to work in Beijing meant passing guards dressed in green military garb, the PLA is almost totally invisible... read more »
The venerable Hong Kong English daily South China Morning Post has found itself at the center of a storm over the past few days after an email exchange between Mainland-born editor Wang Xiangwei and senior sub-editor Alex Price was made public. Asia... read more »
I’ve been closely following the developments regarding CCTV Dialogue host Yang Rui, not least because I was a former editor at CCTV 9 and frequently bumped into Yang while I was in the building. I say “bumped into” because... read more »
I’ve taken a passing interest in the feud that has developed between Richard Burger from The Peking Duck, a long-running and popular blog about China, and Shaun Rein, who is a successful marketer based in Shanghai. (You can begin catching... read more »
I would be remiss if I left Shanghai without a quick blog post, for a few reasons. For starters, I’m having a beer at the Big Bamboo pub just prior to catching my flight back to Hong Kong. A block from here, at Malone’s, is where... read more »
It’s been very interesting watching the Hong Kong Chief Executive “election” unfold this year, the first one I’ve witnessed as a Hong Kong resident. Hong Kong has long been a bastion of free market capitalism, with its... read more »
I’ve taken great interest in a couple of stories recently which are exposing well-formed – but for many, unseen – cracks between the Mainland and Hong Kong. The first one is this: luxury retailer Dolce & Gabbana found... read more »