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When China joined the WTO, there was also an implicit attempt to use “opening-up” to accelerate “reform.” The saying “there is no way back for an arrow when the string is drawn” is particularly true today when the world is filled with goods “made in China.” It is impossible to allow the free flow of commodities but not information when China takes part in the division of labor in globalization. It is equally impossible to allow the free flow of only the “positive” information. There is no such bargain under heaven. The information age has descended upon us. New media like the Internet and cell phones are still developing rapidly. It will cost more and more to control the dissemination of news and will eventually become impossible.

With that in mind, what Taihu’s Algae was to environmentalism, and the 5.12 earthquake was to philanthropy, this latest scandal will be the next turning point in China’s civil society.

Chinese parents hold little else more important than their child’s health, and as we saw in Sichuan after the loss of thousands of school children, parents are not afraid to be vocal and active.  Where this will be an opportunity to take civil society, and public participation, to the next level is that the public at large (children or not) will relate to those who have been affected.

莎朗斯通的言论让我很生气，但是张嘴欲骂的时候，我发现我是个和莎朗斯通一样猥琐的人。 911的时候，我幸灾乐祸，穿着拉登的T恤衫到处招摇。那时候在念高中，我们一个班的人都很欢。虽然说，911是人祸，一定程度上是美国的国际政策导致的，而地震是天灾。但是不管怎么说，死的人都是无辜的。我的行为太猥琐了。 印尼海啸，我也说过那是他们排华事件的报应。几年来，日本韩国出点什么乱子，我都乐得很开心。我觉得这写都是韩国盲目自大，日本不承认二战罪行的报应。 卡特里娜飓风，印度洋海啸，我都当过铁公鸡。但是冲击麦当劳的时候我跑在最前面了。 我真的是很猥琐的一个人，我觉得我不配评论莎朗斯通。

Slashdot 被草莓影响了还是咋的, 怎么最近技术文章少, 政治文章多了?

The firm’s founder, Yan “Jane” Wang Jia, is an IT legend and former beauty queen who has parlayed her business success into political power. Referred to as the “Mother of the Great Firewall of China” by several Chinese IT Web sites, she sits on the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which guides political policy in all areas of government and society.


Why does a society that, like America, impresses most people who spend time here project such a poor image and scare people as much as it attracts them? Why do China’s leaders, who survive partly by listening to their own people, develop such tin ears when dealing with the outside world?

Of course, most official voices of China now have the opposite effect. Their minor, provable lies—the sky is blue, no one wants to protest—inevitably build mistrust of larger claims that are closer to being true. And those are the claims the government most wants the world to listen to: that the country is moving forward and is less repressive and more open than official actions and explanations (or lack of them) make China seem. Many Chinese who have seen the world are very canny about it, and have just the skills government spokesmen lack—for instance, understanding the root of foreign concerns and addressing them not with special pleading (“This is China…”) but on their own terms. Worldly Chinese demonstrate this every day in the businesses, universities, and nongovernmental organizations where they generally work. But the closer Chinese officials are to centers of political power, the less they know what they don’t know about the world.

今夜的榮光屬于美國黑人Obama。無視轉移視線的五毛長篇大論。

We have to be aware of the fact that the Internet has given the youth living in controlled societies infinite venues for digital entertainment - without any religious or social censorship - that may not necessarily be enhancing their digital sense of citizenship and civic engagement. Risking the comfort of their bedrooms - with their hard-drives full of digital goodies - for the gloom of a prison cell does not appeal to many of them. The governments are all too happy to promote this new cult of "cyber-hedonism." Whatever keeps these troubled youths from the streets is inherently a good thing.

The fact that existing political activists embraced the Internet as a tool of mobilization is fairly noncontroversial. What's less obvious is how many digital natives the Internet has turned into digital renegades - and how many into digital captives. It's precisely this balance that will determine what the political landscape of Russia, China or Iran will look like in 10 years.

JA: How important was the role of technology in distributing Charter 08?ZZ: Thirty-one years ago, in the era of Charter 77, there was no Internet, so it was difficult to spread the document. Yesterday, I "Googled" Charter 08. Right now there are already more than 300,000 links about Charter 08. A lot of young people use blogs or QQ [referring to popular instant message software in China] groups to make friends, and they've also spread this new Charter. The English version of Charter 08 was spread rapidly. So thanks to the Internet, it's impossible to block information from society now.

一审青羊区法院认为，借条确是张剑所写，且有证人证言相互印证，因此认定张剑借款43万元的事实成立，张剑应偿还陈芳借款。(记者 易婷)

On the other hand, I’ve seen no one addressing the questions of actual political and bureaucratic process. What comes first? Elections in major urban centers like Shanghai, a sort of Special Democratic Zone? Loosening of Internet controls? Judiciary reform? Privatization of state media? Releasing political prisoners? Local officials already abuse existing structures, how much more will they abuse transitional processes? If you don’t want a revolution, then there has to be some sort of proposed process that the current government can work with and Chinese citizens can feel both moves reform forward and doesn’t threaten to unravel society. If you don’t say anything about how you might accomplish such a thing, but simply describe the end result in which the government becomes something unrecognizable from the existing one, you may not have explicitly called for its overthrow but you sure didn’t call for something else instead. Not to mention its difficult not to see it as just a wish list. Anybody can make a wishlist - who’s going to do the real work?

I think the commenter who asks whether Charter 08 is really calling for a revolution has a point, and it’s not fair to riposte “well, if this all happened it would be revolutionary”. It wouldn’t be if the changes happened gradually or in a controlled and orderly way (as they did in other countries). The party itself, after all, keeps promising political reform, and many of the people who support it so heartily do so on the assumption that it is serious about eventually keeping that promise. The people I spoke to (and quoted) did not think this was a substitute for tackling concrete real life issues, but thought it important to have a framework within which to do so.

Notice, also that I said a “revolution of the system of government”. Not the government, the system. The problems I’m referring to is that when the system, the way things are done, from paying your electricity bill to detemining holders of public office, changes radically, 180 degrees, then there can be terrible consequences. How should one try to avoid those consequences? How can you make the transition smoothly? These are the things that ought to be discussed, and these are the things that will persuade people that your ideals can actually be realized. That might get you a groundswell of demand for change - abstract philosophical manifestos, though, don’t cut it.

The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism -- central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance -- harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it "authoritarian capitalism," others "market Stalinism," personally I prefer "McCommunism."

By next year, the Chinese internal security market is set to be worth $33-billion. Several of the larger Chinese players in the field have recently taken their stocks public on U.S. exchanges, hoping to cash in the fact that, in volatile times, security and defense stocks are seen as the safe bets. China Information Security Technology, for instance, is now listed on the NASDAQ and China Security and Surveillance is on the NYSE. A small clique of U.S. hedge funds has been floating these ventures, investing more than $150-million in the past two years. The returns have been striking. Between October 2006 and October 2007, China Security and Surveillance's stock went up 306 percent.

Ever since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, U.S. companies have been barred from selling police equipment and technology to China, since lawmakers feared it would be directed, once again, at peaceful demonstrators. That law has been completely disregarded in the lead up to the Olympics, when, in the name of safety for athletes and VIPs (including George W. Bush), no new toy has been denied the Chinese state.

“If there is going to be a way of moving the planet forward as a society it comes from people below government level getting on and working together and doing projects,” he said.

体育专家称北京的炎热和潮湿天气会增加能量的损耗，而空气质量良好持续的时间很少超过24小时。体育教练给记者的建议是不要想维持和美国同样的训练计划。

20日，景德镇市几名刑警在宝利金会所内正与人谈话，突然闯进6名男子，其中一人持枪狂射，致使一名刑警当场死亡，另有一名居民受重伤。事后景德镇警方查明，当地男子陈建中当天去该会所找人寻仇，见到与民警交谈的人便举枪就射，当地警方抓获了几名嫌疑人，但陈建中外逃。

北京奥组委周一提醒外国人奥运会期间行为要恰当，不得进行未经允许的抗议活动或街头露宿等行为。

《指南》明文规定，“为了维护城市的公共卫生和文明形象，机场、车站、码头、人行道（天桥、地下通道）、城市绿地等公共场所，禁止露宿。”

911的时候，我幸灾乐祸，穿着拉登的T恤衫到处招摇。那时候在念高中，我们一个班的人都很欢。虽然说，911是人祸，一定程度上是美国的国际政策导致的，而地震是天灾。但是不管怎么说，死的人都是无辜的。我的行为太猥琐了。