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Today is the fifty-first anniversary of the March 10th, 1959 uprising by Tibetans in Lhasa against China’s military occupation that allowed the Dalai Lama to escape capture and flee into exile. It’s appropriate, then, to share this post from High Peaks, Pure Earth, one of the best English language blogs covering what is happening inside […]

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This really shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s paying attention, but the New York Times is reporting that the attacks on Google, other American tech and defense companies, and activists working for human rights in China and Tibet have been tied to universities in China that maintain close working relationships with the Chinese military and government.
It’d be […]

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Tenzin Dorjee, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, has a must-read piece in the Global Post on non-violent resistance in Tibet. It’s a great piece that outlines the efforts made over the last two years by Tibetans inside Tibet to peacefully resist China’s military occupation through both new techniques and methods that date […]

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Apparently the Chinese government doesn’t know what it means to negotiate in good faith. A round of talks between the Tibetan Government in Exile and the Chinese government just concluded. It’s the first round of talks since 2008 and an important step for these two nations. However, it looks like the Chinese government is not […]

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Hey look, another story about the Chinese government spying on foreign companies through the internet, hacking accounts, and dropping malware on people!
This time the British intelligence agency MI5 warned a large range of British companies in 2008 about the threat of Chinese espionage and methods used by Chinese spies to entrap foreign executives.
But a starkly […]

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Just when you thought the Chinese government’s surveillance of their citizenry through technology couldn’t get any more intense, we see this:
Expanding what the Chinese government calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are found to have sent messages with “illegal […]

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The Times of UK:
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily reported that the state-run China Film Group had instructed cinemas nationwide to stop showing the 2-D version of Avatar from January 23 on orders from Beijing’s propaganda chiefs.
It is not just the desire to entertain the masses with a Chinese movie that has prompted […]

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Josh Schrei has a truly excellent piece on The Huffington Post about why Google’s decision to end it’s partnership with the Chinese government should be a model for all Western companies doing business in China. The whole thing is worth a read, but this passage stands out:
While I applaud Google for their brave decision, their […]

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In an email circulating among China rights activists, BBC and Public Radio International reporter, Mary Kay Magistad reports:
I’m writing this at 10:30am on Jan. 13 in Beijing, where for the past hour or more a Google search for “Tiananmen” pulls up, at the top, graphic photos and descriptions of the crackdown, a Google search on […]

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Much has been made of Google’s blog notice that it may soon be shutting down Google.cn, a search engine built in partnership with the censorship requests of the Chinese government.  The post cites a major targeted attack on Google and twenty other top companies originating from China, with an apparent goal of hacking into the […]

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