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The Top Ten Myths of Modern China

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: China Inc., Chinese Spiritual Crisis, Global Superpower, Individualism in CHina, Chinese Consumer, China Growth Model, Self Expression, Communist Party, Chinese Military, Chinese Economy, Chinese Corporations, China, Jay Chou, Chinese Aggression, Chinese Internet, Business News
Tom Doctoroff

China will not implode. Its road to superpower status will be bumpy, even rocky in parts, but the fundamentals of sustained macroeconomic expansion are in place and, for the large part, enduring. Here are 10 popular misconceptions about China.

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Are We Getting China-Africa Media Relations Wrong?

Iginio Gagliardone | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Ghana, Internet, Ethiopia, Censorship, Africa, Internet Censorship, China-Africa Relationship, Chinese Internet, Media Censorship, Chinese Censorship, World News
Iginio Gagliardone

While it is evident how China has been developing a distinctive domestic approach to the Internet and the role of media in society more generally, whether and how the ideas informing this approach are spreading is far less clear.

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China's Fifty Cent Party for Internet Propaganda

Usha Haley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Chinese Community Party, Chinese News, Chinese President Hu Jintao, The Huffington Post, Social Media, Internet Censorship, Media Spin, Twitter, Fifty Cent Party, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Internet, Media News
Usha Haley

China is not the only country in the world to employ cyber police. But the scale of China's efforts is staggering, and social media now comprises the dominant online activity in China.

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Google's China Misadventure: Not a Harbinger of Darkness

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Consumer, Microsoft, Bing, China, Baidu, Chinese Internet, MNC Business in China, Google, World News
Tom Doctoroff

A headline in today's Washington Post asserts: "Google's showdown marks turning point in bond between West and Beijing's authoritarian system." Please. Let's not get overexcited.

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Dear President Obama: In Talking to China, Remember its People

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Internet, Blogosphere, Dalai Lama, Western Countries, Chinese Blogs, Foreign Affairs, Media Censorship, US Foreign Policy, Media, Tibet, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, Internet, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Chinese Internet Users, Chinese Culture, Tim Geithner, Chinese Government, Censorship, Chinese Internet, Chinese Censorship, China, World News
Rebecca MacKinnon

If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.

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China Said To Restore Blocks On Websites

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Blocked Websites, China Internet Access, China, Chinese Internet, World News

The Chinese government has begun blocking access to certain websites that it had previously allowed Internet users to access, reports the New York Ti...

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China Frees the Internet (Sort Of): Unblocks Amnesty, BBC, RSF Sites

Danwei | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reporters Without Borders, Censored Internet, Olympics, Censored Web, Bbc, Amnesty International, China Internet Access, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Internet, Media News

The last two days have seen some serious complaints from the international media about China's ongoing Internet censorship, which was supposed to be s...

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