Hu calls for inclusive development in Asia

 Chinese President Hu Jintao called for inclusive development in Asia on Friday as he attended the opening ceremony of the 2011 annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA). As the second decade of…

Tsinghua University readies for Centennial

Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, one of the world’s top ranking universities will celeberate its 100th  aniversary on April 24. As the clock  ticks, the count down for the centennial is drawing close, and the campus is getting…

Microblogs gaining political weight in China

A Global Times survey shows that 71 percent of Chinese Web users attribute their growing interest in politics to microblogging, but more than half of them complained about the lack of interaction on government blogs….

Ai Weiwei case: Political activism cannot be a legal shield

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is being investigated over “suspected economic crimes”, according to authorities Thursday. Some Western media outlets immediately questioned the charge as a “catch-all crime,” and insisted on interpreting the case in their…

Detained: Ai Weiwei, Con Artist

… suspected that some Caochangdi galleries were used as a conduit for European and American intelligence funding for protests, including the failed Jasmine Revolution on Wangfujin shopping avenue. U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman’s covert presence at the first protest with a pair of Marine bodyguards, caught on video by April Media, was followed by his Shanghai speech calling for the release of Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiaobo. This sort of interventionist foreign “solidarity” does nothing to dispel suspicions or disprove accusations. It seems that his sponsors in the United States, Netherlands and Germany are intent on pushing Ai Weiwei onto the gallows as a sacrificial victim. They don’t have to push hard.

ISRAELI ARMY STRIKES GAZA AFTER SCHOOL BUS HIT – DECONSTRUCTED

No mention in either the headline or the lead paragraph that Israeli forces killed a total of 14 people in the past 24 hours, including a mother, her daughter (injured another of her children), and an elderly man, and that they injured dozens of others. AP fails to report that numerous international investigations have found evidence indicating that Israel has often targeted civilians. AP fails to mention that during the same period Israeli forces have killed thousands of Gazans, including numerous children. There is no mention that a high proportion of Gaza’s residents are refugees ethnically cleansed by Israel in its 1948 war to create a Jewish-only state.