Influential voices are now arguing that the US should retaliate against the possible mass expulsion of American journalists from China by imposing similar restrictions on Chinese media operating in the U.S. But there is a better approach. Instead of restricting press freedom in the US, why not increase freedom in China?
State-run newspaper Global Times dismisses Western media comparisons between recently deceased anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison in South Africa, and veteran Chinese human rights advocate, Liu Xiaobo, now serving 11 years for inciting subversion.
A major loan exhibition of contemporary Chinese art presenting works by 35 artists born in China is now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including 70 works in various media from the past three decades, from artists such as Xu Bing, Zhang Huan and Ai Weiwei among others.
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The navies of Japan and South Korea, two Asian democracies, carried out a joint maritime rescue drill in international waters covered by China's new air defence identification zone (ADIZ).
In the late 1990s, the visual arts in China operated on the fringes of society, and those who dared to flirt with public prominence risked finding themselves on the disapproving end of a government clampdown. And yet how different things seem today, with tens of thousands of artists struggling on the fringes while a small minority enjoy what can seem to be fairly stable and even politically protected positions within the arts establishment... provided that they keep a healthy sense of their own career trajectory.
Times are getting rough for Wang Guangchun, a ten-year veteran sales manager of a state-owned coal company.
“During the golden era of the past, clients came to find me,” Wang said. “Starting last year, we had to go looking for them.”
Wang is employed by a subordinate company of the Datong Coal Group in the northern province of Shanxi, which sits at the center of China’s coal belt. His clients have primarily been in Shanxi, Shandong, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, but recently those outside Shanxi province are growing scarcer.
Like U.S. corporations, American colleges are extending their brands overseas. But colleges claim to place ideals over income. As professors abroad face consequences for what they say, most universities are doing little more than wringing their hands.
If China kicks out U.S. journalists, should the U.S. do the same to Chinese journalists?
The Chinese government’s crackdown on Bloomberg and “the paper of record” reaches a head.
