Thousands of Local Internet Propaganda Emails Leaked

The archive includes correspondence, photos, directories of “Internet commentators” (网评员), summaries of commentary work, and records of the online activities of specific individuals, among other documents. Over 2,700 emails are included in the archive, many of which include attachments of Microsoft Word documents.

Shunyi Foreign Foster Parent of 11 Disappears, Critically Ill Child at Hospital

The Legal Daily reported Thursday that the girl, called Phoebe, is one of 11 ethnic Chinese foster children the man has been raising in various apartments around Beijing, most recently at Capital Paradise in Shunyi.

China Watchdog Says TV Censorship Rules Should Apply Online Too

A more censorious environment coincides with a boom in tie-ups between China and Hollywood. HBO and Tencent have agreed to make HBO content available on a broad basis in China, including shows like The Newsroom, Boardwalk Empire, Rome and Band of Brothers.

China’s Fallen Mighty [Updated]

A Timeline of Toppled Communist Party Leaders, 1976-2014

Political infighting and purges have been hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party since its earliest days but came to a peak during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, damaging the country and paralyzing the Party itself. When Mao died in 1976, it was agreed by Party survivors that the constant and ruthless upheaval must end. But the struggles continued, albeit at a slower pace and in a less radical fashion. The timeline below gathers the details of the toppling of the Party’s highest-level leaders from the time of Mao’s death to the trial, in August 2013, of Bo Xilai—the fallen Chongqing Party Secretary who was sentenced to life in prison for corruption, bribery, and abuse of power, to Zhou Yongkang

Domestic Abuse in China

It doesn’t take a lot of time in China to see household violence play out in supermarkets, in schools, or even in the streets. But exactly how common is domestic violence in China? In the face of recent evidence from Peking University that more than 70 percent of all children suffer from some form of physical or emotional abuse, not to mention the never-stopping stories of spousal abuse (by both men and women) that pour out in the press, we wanted to take an episode to look into the issue and ask what the hell is going on?

New Paradigms Forum

From thie website:

This website is devoted to providing its readers with opportunities to think about, discuss, and debate matters of importance to the management of global security challenges in this new century — with a special emphasis upon the impact of technology upon national and international security relationships.  Almost any topic of public policy import is fair game, however.  This is a work in progress ….

We are interested, broadly, in issues of policy, law, and ethics as they arise in connection with questions of public affairs, especially security policy.  Of particular interest are questions of nuclear weapons policy, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear disarmament, arms control, cyberwarfare, space policy, the “revolution in military affairs,” counter-terrorism law and policy, managing tensions between security and civil liberties, electronic surveillance, intelligence collection and oversight in democracies, the rise of robotics in military and security affairs, and the rise of China in modern international relations.