Media Report
The New York Times reports: "A report released on Thursday by PEN America, a writers' group based in New York, tries to quantify how difficult it has become for journalists to get the facts out of China. Its conclusion: The estimated 700 foreign journalists in China from 50 countries 'face more restrictions now than at any other time in recent history.'...The group surveyed more than three dozen journalists, as well as local Chinese employees of foreign outlets; experts; media groups and others to compile the 76-page report....'Of course, we can't compare this to the pressures felt by Chinese writers,' Ms. Nossel said. 'But we are dependent on the critical link that foreign correspondents play. They are an important piece of the puzzle of understanding China.'"
- Reuters reports: "With China facing a demographic crisis of stalling birth rates and a fast-ageing population, one city has taken a novel approach: a direct call to action aimed at young government officials to lead the way and have a second child....'Young cadres have to take the lead having a second child, while elder cadres should urge them on,' the letter said, citing the need to bolster the city's working population and raise a fertility rate that has fallen below one child per woman....The open letter, picked up by domestic media late on Wednesday but dated Sept. 13, has received a mixed response. 'Our jobs are stable so it's easier to have two children. Those with a busier job have to sacrifice more if they want a second kid,' said Yan Liu, a civil servant with a 14-month-old girl in Shanghai."
- The New York Times: Sinosphere comments: "Chinese preservationists, internet users and media commentators have been incensed this week after pictures showed that officials repaired part of the Great Wall in northeast China by slapping a white substance on top of the crumbling, weathered stones. A once unkempt, haunting 700-year-old stretch of the wall now lookslike a cement skateboarding lane dumped in the wilderness....Online, in newspapers and in interviews, many people, including experts on preserving the Great Wall, went much further in condemning the repairs to the section, in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province. 'This was vandalism done in the name of preservation,' Liu Fusheng, a park officer from the county who first raised an outcry about the work, said in a telephone interview. 'Even the little kids here know that this repair of the Great Wall was botched.'"
Calendar
- 2016-09-21 At U.N., China calls for North Korean denuclearization, dialogue
- 2016-09-20 U.S., China to step up cooperation on North Korea
- 2016-09-19 China's debt crisis: Just how bad is it?
- 2016-09-18 China August home prices rise 9.2 percent year-on-year
- 2016-09-14 How China Wastes Its Renewable Energy
- 2016-09-13 Behind China’s Firewall, Google Maps Shows Nine-Dash Line
- 2016-09-12 Marriage Falls in China, Transforming Finances and Families
- 2016-09-11 China, Russia naval drill in South China Sea to begin Monday
- 2016-09-09 North Korea’s Nuclear Defiance Leaves China With Few Options
- 2016-09-08 Pressing Asia Agenda, Obama Treads Lightly on Human Rights
News
- The New York Times Foreign Reporters in China Face More Restrictions Now, Report Says
- Reuters Just do it: Chinese city tells cadres to set example and have second child
- BBC News China rights lawyer Xia Lin jailed for 12 years
- The Washington Post Section of Great Wall of China marred in name of restoration
- Bloomberg Business Suitcases of Cash: China Travel Data Hint at Capital Outflow
- The Wall Street Journal U.S. Beef Producers React Cautiously to China Premier Statement on Imports
- The Washington Post Taiwan protests exclusion from UN fisheries conference
- The New York Times Chinese Court Sentences Ai Weiwei's Lawyer to 12 Years for Fraud
- The Wall Street Journal Japan, China Leaders Take Diverging Stances on North Korea Threat
- Reuters China financial outbound direct investment surges 26 percent in 2015
- Bloomberg Markets Beware the Chinese Property Companies That Look Like Shadow Banks
- TIME China Sends Vines Into Space in a Bid to Create Some Heavenly Wine
- The Guardian 'No ghosts. No gay love stories. No nudity': tales of film-making in China
Commentary
- The New York Times: Sinosphere 'Botched' Repair to China's Great Wall Inspires Outrage
- The Washington Post Chinese teen starves mother to death in fury at brutal Internet addiction boot camp
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time Watch a Dragon Take Shape on a Beijing Wall
- Reuters: Breakingviews China gets steelier about debt restructuring
- The New York Times: Sinosphere Hoping to Work in China? If You're a Class C Foreigner, It May Be Tough
- Council on Foreign Relations China's Tourism Puzzle Has Gone Mainstream
- The Diplomat Making a US-Sino War 'Thinkable'?