China Human Rights

Huang Qi, Chinese Critic Of Earthquake Responses, Jailed For 3 Years

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 11.23.2009 | World


BEIJING — A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed...

Xue Feng, American Geologist, Held And Mistreated By China

AP | CHARLES HUTZLER | Posted 11.19.2009 | World


BEIJING — Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consu...

Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?

David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


David A. Love

President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.

China's Silicon Sweatshops

Global Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | World


TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Hourly wages below a dollar. Firings with no notice. Indifferent bosses. Labor brokers that leech away months of a worker's hard-ear...

Chinese Who Complain To Government Risk Kidnap: Report

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


BEIJING — Kidnapping villagers who have traveled to Beijing to lodge complaints with China's central government and keeping them in unofficial j...

Tripping in China: Barack Obama's Challenge

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Robert L. Borosage

For Obama's trip to Asia, the White House paints a full agenda -- Afghanistan, human rights, North Korean nukes, climate change, trade relations, and the economy. But it's really just the economy, stupid.

China Activist Yang Zili Risks Jail With Letter To Obama

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


BEIJING — Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so. ...

What to Expect from President Obama's Visit to China

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


Elizabeth Lynch

While the White House has yet to release President Obama's schedule, expect President Obama and President Hu Jintao to discuss military ties, global economic health, climate change and human rights.

China: "Kingdom of Dwarves" Theme Park Showcases Little People

GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


KUNMING, China -- The casting call went out across China earlier this year, in newspapers and online: Entertainers needed for a new theme park, no spe...

Mao Takes Manhattan: Empire State Building Goes Red and Yellow for China

David Flumenbaum | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York


David Flumenbaum

Wednesday night, the Empire State Building illumined its spire with red and yellow lights in honor of China. While this isn't the first time it's gone red and yellow, it's the first time it's been done for Mao.

Passing Oceania

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media


Matt Osborne

For all our worries about Big Brother intruding on our lives, Big Brother has no way to stop individuals from intruding on him.

China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism

The Independent | Clifford Coonan | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


From the Independent Mao Tse-tung tried to stamp the custom out as a relic of feudalism, but the return of capitalism to China has also meant a major...

Xu Zhiyong And 2 More Activists Released By China Without Explanation

nytimes.com | MICHAEL WINES | Posted 09.24.2009 | World


BEIJING Chinese authorities unexpectedly released three political activists from detention on Sunday, including one whose case had drawn global attent...

The Will to Survive: One Man's Harrowing Escape from Tibet

Rebecca Novick | Posted 08.30.2009 | World


Rebecca Novick

Tsewang managed to survive for fourteen months, 16,000 feet up in the mountains, with untreated bullet wounds, in extreme pain, living only on barley flour, butter and tea.

Will The U.S. and China Ever See Eye-To-Eye?

Julie Farby | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


Julie Farby

To show the world we're not going to risk relations with our favorite creditor on account of a couple of crushed Uighurs, Obama dropped the whole human rights spiel in favor of sports!

China Executions To Be Reduced To "An Extremely Small Number"

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


China, which executes more people per year than any other country, vowed this week to cut back on the habit, ABC News reports. According to Supreme P...

A New Approach to Human Rights in China

Jaeah J. Lee | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


Jaeah J. Lee

If the United States wants to see real progress in the bilateral relationship and to partner with China to address global challenges, it will have to become more innovative in how it attempts to move China on human rights.

China's Civil Rights Lawyers: The New Enemies of the State

Rebecca Novick | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


Rebecca Novick

in recent months Beijing has been busy targeting home-grown adversaries -- Chinese civil rights lawyers -- in a series of moves that has been described as "an all-out attack."

Why China's Leaders Need to Worry About Recent Events in Iran: Twitter Trumps the Great Firewall

Peter Scheer | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


Peter Scheer

Both Iran and China are modernizing autocracies committed by a combination of ideology and fear to maintaining control over their peoples' access to information. Iran's lesson for China's leaders is that the technologies of censorship, despite their increasing sophistication, may not be sufficient to prevent determined citizens from using technologies of communication to organize dissent and political opposition on a mass scale.

Liu Xiaobo Arrested In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


BEIJING — A well-known Chinese dissident who co-authored a bold political manifesto calling for greater freedom and an end to one-party rule has...

Getting Along with the Invaders: Bishkek Versus Kashgar

Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.25.2009 | World


Alexander Davenport

My experiences out West revealed the simmering race relations between the Han and Uighur peoples, which helps explain the necessity of sending Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to Palau and not back to China.

Iran Is the World's First Pink Revolution

Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World


Diane Francis

Iranian women are standing shoulder to shoulder in a way never before seen in a society that mistreats them so severely.

China Gay Pride Week Squelched By State

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 07.12.2009 | World


Police warned two Shanghai venues against hosting events, even as a state-run daily hailed the festival as a "showcase" of progress....

Hardware Risk: China Targets PC Manufacturers

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 07.11.2009 | World


Michael Shtender-Auerbach

What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?