How Chinese Internet Censorship Works, Sometimes
on March 13, 2014
Earlier this week, Chinese Internet services blocked searches for the phrase mìshū bāng (秘书帮).
Jason Q. Ng
on March 13, 2014
Jason Q. Ng is a research fellow at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs, where he co-authored, with Lotus Ruan, Jeffrey Knockel, and Masashi Crete-Nishihata, the report “One App, Two Systems: How WeChat Uses One Censorship Policy in China and Another Internationally.” Ng wrote the book Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China’s Version of Twitter (And Why). He is also a research consultant at China Digital Times, where he helps develop censorship monitoring tools. His research and writing have been featured in publications including Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal’s “China Real Time” blog, The Atlantic, BBC World Service, VICE, and Foreign Affairs. Ng was previously a 2013 Google Policy Fellow and has worked as a book editor at The New Press and Metropolitan Books. He graduated from Brown University and studied East Asian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
It’s Time to Cooperate on the Yarlung Tsangpo
A Race for River Resources Risks Losses for China, India, and Bangladesh
on March 11, 2014
This is part of a special series of articles produced by thethirdpole.net on the future of the Yarlung Tsangpo river—one of the world’s great transboundary rivers—which starts on the Tibetan Plateau before passing through India and Bangladesh.
After 3/1: The Dangers of China’s Ethnic Divide
on March 11, 2014
The pressure posed by ethnic unrest is the biggest story on the Chinese horizon, and that struggle—the pressure from below, and the response it will bring—just moved into the foreground.
Xi Jinping’s Germany Trip: Berlin Nixes Holocaust Memorial Request
on March 11, 2014
Amid tensions over Japan’s historical war crimes, Chinese President Xi Jinping had wanted Chancellor Angela Merkel to show him World War II memorials during his upcoming visit to Berlin. Germany, however, wants no part of Beijing’s propaganda offensive.
Was Chinese Train Massacre ‘Terrorism’?
on March 11, 2014
Chinese might want to think twice before they start adopting the U.S.’s politically charged, post-Sept. 11 enthusiasm for labeling terrorists and terror attacks.
Beijing Buys a Waste Management Company to Solve Its Pollution Problems—But It Won’t Work
on March 11, 2014
Beijing’s municipal government controls its own infrastructure company, the Beijing Capital Group, which means it can spend $798 million to buy New Zealand’s biggest waste management company.
China’s Muslims Will Pay a Heavy Price for the Kunming Knife Attacks
on March 11, 2014
There’s no evidence that the Kunming station attack had any connection to global jihad, but that won’t prevent a crackdown.
Giant Birds ‘Fly’ Inside St. John the Divine
on March 11, 2014
Two giant birds Chinese artist Xu Bing created out of tools and debris are hanging inside The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights.
Mr. Abe’s Dangerous Revisionism
on March 11, 2014
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s use of revisionist history is a dangerous provocation for East Asia, which is already struggling with China’s aggressive stance in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas.