| 【Today's Focus】 Slaughter is No Substitute for Justice |
Yu Jie |
| If what an act of violent touches off is not a reflection on the culture of violence, a reverence for life or a thirst for love, but rather an idolizing of the perpetrator, a lack of feeling for the victims and advocacy of even greater violence, this indicates a society that is sinking into crisis. It is not the violence that is terrible, but the widespread acceptance of violence as a normal part of life, or even as a form of justice. |
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| 【Around The World】 The World's Journalists: Online and In Jail |
CPJ |
| Nowhere is the ascendance of Internet journalism more evident than in China, where 24 of 28 jailed journalists worked online. China's prison list includes Hu Jia, a prominent human rights activist and blogger, who is serving a prison term of three and a half years for online commentaries and media interviews in which he criticized the Communist Party. He was convicted of "incitement to subvert state power," a charge commonly used by authorities in China to jail critical writers. At least 22 journalists are jailed in China on this and other vague antistate charges. |
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| 【Special Report and Commentary】 Applauding Shenzhen's Warriors of Democracy |
Liu Yiming |
| In recent years, rights defense movements of all kinds have swept across China. While we may regard the riots in Weng'an and Longnan as popular revolts against official exploitation, the taking to the streets of democracy advocates in Shenzhen is a conscious and unforced movement. In a China that remains shrouded in despotism, such conduct is all the more laudable. |
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| 【CIC News Express】 GAPP Issued Journalist IDs to 'Fake Journalists' |
China Information Center |
 The General Administration for Press and Publication recently became embroiled in a "fake ID" controversy after staff of China Food News reported that GAPP had issued journalist IDs to several individuals without journalistic qualifications. The newspaper said that none of the three individuals had any journalistic training or credentials, nor were they on the newspaper's staff. |
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| 【US China relation】 US Treasury Secretary's Remarks on US-China Economic Relations |
Henry M. Paulson |
| Our discussions of balanced growth, open investment and trade and international economic cooperation couldn't come at a more critical time. The United States economy has turned down sharply, the Chinese economy and the global economy have also slowed. Both the U.S. and China have been engines of global economic growth. The strength of our economies is not only critical to our own citizens, but to people in every corner of the globe. The world will watch both of us as we grapple with these difficult economic times. |
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| 【History & Fact】 An Error in the History of 20th Century Thought |
Shao Jian |
| The existence of different classes does not necessarily result in class struggle. Xu Zhimo was ultimately unable to make the leap from class struggle to socialism. He turned away from Soviet-style socialism; even though we went so far as advocating handing over industrial development to the state, and eliminating classes, his own deep humanitarian made him unable to accept Soviet-style revolution and its sacrifice of human life. |
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| 【Today's Focus】 A Calamity of Historic Proportions is Nigh |
Li Jie |
| Today's China is like the Titanic; the series of disasters it suffered in 2008 were just signs that it had run up against the iceberg. That iceberg was not so much a natural disaster as an unprecedented darkness for the humanities. Which can be said to come first: the system and its people, or rather the darkness of the human heart and the grave condition of autocracy? They are mutually interdependent. |
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| 【Tibet】 Dalai Lama's Address to European Parliament |
Phayul |
In contrast to the continued extremely rigid attitude of the Chinese government towards Tibet, fortunately among the Chinese people -- especially among the informed and educated Chinese circles --there is a growing understanding and sympathy for the plight of the Tibetan people. Although my faith in the Chinese leadership with regard to Tibet is becoming thinner and thinner, my faith in the Chinese people remains unshaken. I have therefore been advising the Tibetan people to make concerted efforts to reach out to the Chinese people. |
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| 【Chinese Landscape】 My Dream: To Find a Homeland in My Native Land |
Xiao Shu |
| Our native land is not ideal, because it has no freedom or contentment. We might find freedom and contentment in a foreign land, but such a place cannot give one an identity or caring, so it is also not ideal. And so we exist as wandering ghosts, whether on our native soil or abroad. From a spiritual and cultural standpoint, we have become like Gypsies, or like the Jews before the end of World War II who had no place they could call their own. |
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| 【Special Report and Commentary】 Punishment for Views at University of Politics and Law |
Wang Xiaoyu |
| When my intellectual friends discuss the Lu Xuesong incident, they all agree that the reason for this matter arising and becoming an incident is related to the closed-off nature of the Jilin Academy of Art. But the Yang Shiqun incident suggests a less optimistic prognosis. The Donghua University of Politics of Law is not located in Pengshui or Xifeng. For a professor at such a university to be punished for his speech absurd beyond the bounds of fiction. |
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| 【CIC News Express】 Spread of AIDS Increasing Among Party Cadres |
China Information Center |
| December 1 was the first "World AIDS Day," and in conjunction with publicity activities promoting the control of AIDS, the official Chinese media revealed data from some private research studies. A joint survey carried out by major universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University and Renmin University found that from 2002 to 2007, there were five special characteristics of the spread of AIDS, the most surprising among them being a trend toward more officials and Party members becoming infected. |
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| 【Today's Focus】 The Differences Between the Nouveau Riche of China and Russia |
Chen Fengxiao |
| The nouveau riche cliques of Russia are for the most part former senior Party officials from the Soviet era and their children and friends. In China, they are typically Party officials (including some who have retired) and their children and friends. That is the greatest similarity between the two groups. The greatest difference between them is revealed in two aspects: the emergence of their opportunities, and their attitudes toward political reform in their respective countries. |
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