Hard to beat China's cat-and-rat computer games

January 6, 2010 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Big brother, blogspot.com, censorship, China, China's internet controls, Facebook in China, Falun Gong, freedom of expression, information control, netizens, No Electronic Theft Law, Taiwan, The Green Dam project, Tiananmen, Tibet, Tudou.com, Urumqi riots, VPM, Vulgar Information Reporting Center, Youtube

By John Hancock, in Beijing Special to The Wild East Democracy and free expression are thriving in China — in cyberspace. While Big Brother asserted himself in 2009, this did not prevent foreign ideas from invading his Internet space and there has been a renaissance in self-expression, comparable to the

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China Warns Web Media and Bloggers: Beijing is watching.

Media Matters Strait-Talk Taiwan News

December 19, 2008 Phillip Charlier censorship, China, great firewall of china, human rights, independence, internet, Taiwan, Tibet

Bloggers will be monitored. The PRC has set up a team to ‘police’ the Internet. They will attempt to remove sensitive content, warn bloggers who ‘cross the line’ and block access to sites that don’t comply.

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Tibet violence changes tone of Taiwan vote

Political Beats Strait-Talk

April 8, 2008 Phillip Charlier China, cultural identity, elections, independence, Political Beats, self-determination, Taiwan, Tibet

Article and Illustration by Mark Perrault Vancouver Sun March 17th, 2008. Jonathan Manthorpe is correct to identify linkages between the current unrest in Tibet and the presidential elections in Taiwan and his critically-informed and sustained interest in the Taiwan situation offers one of very few perspectives on that part of

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