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feng37

Their Own Worst Enemy - The Atlantic (November 2008) - 0 views

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  • 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.
feng37

John Kamm - Blinded By the Firewall - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  • The fact that the Chinese people think the world loves China helps explain why it is so difficult to persuade Beijing to address human rights and other issues. The Chinese people, after all, see no need for changes to improve the country's image. In contrast, polls have shown that Americans are aware that the United States' image overseas has been badly damaged in recent years, and there is widespread agreement that work must be done to improve that image. In China, the Communist Party controls most of the information to which people have access, and that information does not include material showing how unpopular the country has become.
  • The people in developed countries who think it was a mistake to award the Olympics to Beijing (43 percent of Americans, vs. 41 percent who told Pew it was the correct decision) are less likely to watch.
  • Three in four Chinese think the world likes China, while only one in 10 thinks foreigners don't like the country. More than 80 percent believe China takes other countries' interests into account when formulating foreign policy. Just 3 percent think China's economic growth has a negative effect on other countries. Only 1 percent knew a lot about the recall of Chinese products for quality and safety reasons. if ( show_doubleclick_ad && ( adTemplate & INLINE_ARTICLE_AD ) == INLINE_ARTICLE_AD && inlineAdGraf ) { placeAd('ARTICLE',commercialNode,20,'inline=y;',true) ; } Pew's Global Attitudes Survey of public opinion in 24 countries, released in June, makes clear that international opinion toward China is very different from what people in China think it is.
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    The fact that the Chinese people think the world loves China helps explain why it is so difficult to persuade Beijing to address human rights and other issues. The Chinese people, after all, see no need for changes to improve the country's image. In contrast, polls have shown that Americans are aware that the United States' image overseas has been badly damaged in recent years, and there is widespread agreement that work must be done to improve that image. In China, the Communist Party controls most of the information to which people have access, and that information does not include material showing how unpopular the country has become.
isaac Mao

Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China : NPR Music - 0 views

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  • When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
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    Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China By Laura Sydell Listen Now [7 min 48 sec] add to playlist Chinese electronic musician B6 B6, a Shanghai-based electronic musician, explored Western music first on pirated CDs and then at music-sharing sites on the Web. Now he collaborates online with other performers. B6's studio equipment -- a jumble of keyboards, etc. Enlarge B6 works out of a home studio in a Shanghai high-rise. Above, some of his musical arsenal. Discover China's Indie Music Neocha Web site image Neocha.com With Sean Leow, B6 co-founded the music-sharing site Neocha.com, an ad-supported service that lets listeners discover music and pays musicians a share of advertising revenue. * Neocha.com * Neocha's "Next" Player Morning Edition, June 25, 2008 - Second in a three-part series. When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It's more open today, but the Communist government still bans anything that mentions sex or violence, or that has "low class humor" - which bans an awful lot of American music. So the music most likely to come pouring out of the radio in China is syrupy ballads usually produced in Hong Kong or Taiwan. But Chinese musicians and fans are finding a whole new universe of sound on the Internet. And it's helping to create and nourish a new generation of independent artists in China. From Black-Market Discs to Napster and Beyond One of them is B6, a 27-year-old electronic musician. He lives and works on the first floor of a high-rise on the outskirts of Shanghai. He's part of China's burgeoning electronic-music scene. Growing up, the CDs B6 listened to were mostly sold on the black market. "When I was in high school, I used to listen to rock 'n' roll music," he says. "At that time, it was very difficult to get foreign or Western music." And then, in 1999, the Internet came to China - and B6 and his fr
feng37

Cory Doctorow: Big Brother is not watching | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Needles in a haystackThe problem of sifting through vast amounts of data was highlighted by the US 9/11 Commission, which concluded that the American intelligence community knew in advance that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were in the offing, they just didn't know they knew it. The pieces were all there for anyone who knew to look for them, needles buried in a haystack of irrelevancies. The answer in both America and Britain has been to collect more haystacks: useless, indiscriminately acquired information onpeople who've done nothing to arouse suspicion. We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.
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    Needles in a haystack The problem of sifting through vast amounts of data was highlighted by the US 9/11 Commission, which concluded that the American intelligence community knew in advance that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were in the offing, they just didn't know they knew it. The pieces were all there for anyone who knew to look for them, needles buried in a haystack of irrelevancies. The answer in both America and Britain has been to collect more haystacks: useless, indiscriminately acquired information on people who've done nothing to arouse suspicion. We even inveigle our citizens to become amateur curtain-twitchers and pecksniffs, demanding that they report "suspicious" activity to the authorities.
feng37

As world trade falters, workers head home - Washington Post- msnbc.com - 0 views

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  • Singapore's exports collapsed by a stunning 35 percent in January, mirroring much of the rest of Asia. The export boom here was tied to credit-fueled buying sprees in the United States that stopped abruptly and may take years to return, if ever. Manufacturers are grasping for a Plan B. But none of the options -- mining domestic markets, or trying to tap consumers in still-growing China and India -- offers a truly viable solution.
  • "The collapse of globalization . . . is absolutely possible," said Jeffrey Sachs, a noted American economist. "It happened in the 20th century in the wake of World War I and the Great Depression, and could happen again. Nationalism is rising and our political systems are inward looking, the more so in times of crisis."
  • Economists from Credit Suisse predict an exodus of 200,000 foreigners -- or one in every 15 workers here -- by the end of 2010.
shi zhao

从"环球时报"奇文看帮凶的记者和学者 | 中国 | Deutsche Welle | 2008.11.28 - 0 views

  • 如果说德国之声国际博客大赛中国评委周曙光被拒出境是中国公民的悲哀,那么“人民日报”旗下“环球时报”对于此事的报道则是中国记者和学者的耻辱。一个普通公民因为实践自己的良知与正义感而被权力肆意侵犯,中国年轻记者却老练地运用文革式笔法强暴事实,七零后学者大言不惭地为强暴寻找根据,为奴化教育提供理论背书
  • 周曙光被拒绝出境,并不是德国之声"十分恼怒"才编造出"原因是中国担心'危害国家安全'",而是周曙光户籍所在地长沙市公安局国保支队亲口对周所讲,德国之声亲自打电话到长沙市公安局求证周曙光被拒出境一事,得到的也是同样的回答。长沙公安局的人还骄横地对德国之声说,他们就这么决定了,"随便你们怎么写怎么报!"虽然周曙光早已是包括湖南在内的一些国安公安眼中的"捣乱分子",但他从来不是"不法分子",没有做过任何违反中国法律的事情,以没有发生的"可能会危害国家安全"为理由,预设有罪,剥夺周曙光出国旅行的自由,是对公民权的野蛮的践踏。
isaac Mao

德国之声2008国际博客大赛揭晓! - 0 views

  • 本年度最佳中文博客授予律师刘晓原。刘晓原是一位自学成才的律师,2000年通过了国家的律师资格考试。3年来他一直坚持书写博客,帮助人们了解法律知识和程序,参与社会公众活动,帮助人们维护自己的权益。他呼吁法律程序的透明化,并且和其他专家共同致力于建设中国的法制体系。
  • 德国之声和“记者无疆界”组织共同推出本年度两位 特别奖,其中一个授于中国维权人士胡佳的妻子曾金燕,丈夫被秘密警察带走后,她依然勇敢地撰写博客,记录这段时间发生的事情,几年来坚持书写博客,让人们了解在监控下的生活。 
isaac Mao

British professor flees Thailand after charge of insulting king | World news | The Guar... - 0 views

  • Giles Ji Ungpakorn, 54, arrived in England at the weekend after being charged under the laws. He had been due to present himself to the police in Bangkok today and could have faced 15 years in jail if found guilty.
feng37

Digital Resistance and the Orange Revolution « iRevolution - 0 views

  • Maidan was a group of tech-savvy pro-democracy activists who used the Internet as a tool to support their movement. Maidan in Ukranian means public square and Maidan’s website features the slogal “You CAN chnage the world you live in. And you can do it now. In Ukraine.”
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  • The main activity of Maidan was election monitoring and networking with other pro-democracy organizations around Eastern Europe.
  • “websites cannot produce an activist organization.”
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  • it was crucial for Maidan to frequently host real world meetings as their membership base increased. The human element was particularly important. This explains why Maidan encouraged users to disclose their identity whenever possible.
  • The community benefited from centralized leadership that developed the organization’s culture, controlled its assets and provided the strategy to achieve desired goals. The Maidan experience thus demonstrates a hybrid organization.
  • Pora, meaning “It’s Time” in Ukranian, was a well-organized group of  pro-democracy volunteers that “emerged as an information sharing campaign and during the elections morphed into coordinators of mass protest centered around tent cities in towns throughout Ukraine. The grassroots movement took its inspiration from Serbia’s Otpor movements as well as “older civic movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.”
  • “the active use of modern communication systems in the campaign’s management,” and “mobile phones played an important role for mobile fleet of activists.”
  • “a ssytem of immedate dissemination of information by SMS was put in place and proved important.” In addition, “some groups provided the phones themselves, while others provided SIM cards, and most provided airtime.”
  • roviding rapid reporting in a way that no other medium could. As tent cities across the Ukraine became the sign of the revolution,
  • The news feed from the regions [became] vitally important. Every 10 to 15 minutes another tent city appeared in some town or other, and the fact was soon reported on the air.
  • While the government certainly saw the Internet as a threat, the government had not come to consensus regarding the “legal and political frameworks it would use to silence journalists that published openly on this new medium.”
  • many online journalists unlike mainstream journalists were free from the threat of defamation charges.
  • one of the earliest examples of what Steven Mann calls “sousveillance,” meaning, “the monitoring of authority figures by grassroots groups, using the technologies and techniques of surveillance.”
  • Technology certainly does not make possible a direct democracy, where everyone can participate in a decision, nor representative democracy where decision makers are elected; nor is it really a one-person-one-vote referendum style democracy. Instead it is a consultative process known as ‘rough consensus and running code.’
  • the real power of traditional media. Natalia Dmytruk worked for the Ukraine’s state-run television news program as an interpreter of sign language for the hearing-impaired. As the revolution picked up momentum, she decided she couldn’t lie anymore and broke from the script with the following message: I am addressing everybody who is deaf in the Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies. . . . And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again…
  • “Dmytruk’s live silent signal helped spread the news, and more people began spilling into the streets to contest the vote.”
  • itizen journalists and digital activists participated in civil resistance trainings across the country, courtesy of Otpor. The use of humor and puns directed at the regime is a classic civil resistance tactic.
  • one of key reasons that explains the success of the revolution has to do with the fact that “the protesters were very well trained and very good at protesting… very, very good.”
  • Digital activists need to acquire the tactical and strategic know-how developed over decades of civil resistance movements. Otherwise, tactical victories by digital activists may never translate into overall strategic victory for a civil resistance movement.
feng37

Olympic World and the Real World.... - The China Blog - TIME - 0 views

  • Can you imagine what the press coverage in the US would be if, in the run up to and during the early parts of a US hosted Olympics there had been three separate , successful terrorist attacks in, say, Utah or California? Would we the press not be going pretty much nuts covering that?
  • In a statement to the (Party controlled) Xinjiang Daily , he said Chinese security forces must “stick to strategy of seizing the initiative to strike preemptively.” But his statement barely made a dent in China’s news coverage, which remains resolutely focused on China kicking the rest of the world’s butts in the almighty race for Gold.
blt-fqx

DW-WORLD.DE - 新闻 - 0 views

  • 中国豆沙中含有有毒物质20.09.2008, 14:13 UTC法新社东京消息:日本一家甜食工厂的职员在尝试了中国生产的豆沙后生病送进了医院。据日本长野警方周五说,豆沙是生产亚洲甜食的原料之一,这两名职员打开装有中国豆沙的包装后,闻到一股煤油味。他们尝了一豆沙后,感到恶心,后被送进医院,但状况稳定。 警方发言人说,估计豆沙中含有有毒物质。自从有毒丸子和受杀虫剂污染的大米出现在日本市场后,日本消费者对中国生产的食品十分畏惧。周五,日本农业大臣因此宣布辞职。
Kenyth Zeng

Dujiangyan's residents turn anger against Chinese officials | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • They have money for prostitutes and second wives but they don't have money for our children. This is not a natural disaster - this is done by humans.
evawoo

Crisis and Response - Part III - 0 views

  • Furthermore, China will be tested for its willingness and ability to play a more active international role, commensurate to its growing world-power status.
  • While it is understandable that the Chinese public has been emotionally involved in such a calamity so close to home, the country will command universal respect when its government and its citizens display as much care to other humanitarian crises around the world as they have at home.
isaac Mao

BBtv - Google's "Great Firewall of China": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and ... - 0 views

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    The San Francisco-based Billboard Liberation Front has been transforming the world of advertising since 1977. When Austrian art-pranksters and regular BBtv guests monochrom recently visited the United States to spread their Sculpture Mob dogma, a historic meeting with the elusive BLF took place. BBtv's hidden cameras captured everything.
Kenyth Zeng

What does the world think of the U.S. and China? - 0 views

  • An exception to this is Germany, which gave the most negative of all the European assessments. China, on the other hand, was quite positive towards Germany. It probably isn’t anymore.
  • Danwei posted on Who is winning the Olympic PR War? Jeremy’s conclusion: In the West, Free Tibet organizers. In China, the Chinese government.
  • Chinese people are not “brainwashed” by the government but carefully considering Western sources and see them as being just biased as their own sources.
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  • the world still doesn’t like the US government. In fact they like China’s government more.
  • Overall: China. 47% for China vs. 35% for U.S. (excluding subject country) Latin America: China. 45% for China vs 32% for U.S. Europe: China. 39% for China vs 31% for U.S. Middle East: China. 63% for China vs. 34% for U.S. Africa: United States. 66% for China, 70% for U.S. Asia (ex-China): China again. 40% for China vs 39% for U.S.
  • In fact, only 9 of 23 countries rated the U.S. higher than China
isaac Mao

Global Voices 全球之声 » 韩国:西藏与韩国的独立运动 - 0 views

  • 最近中国与西藏抗议者爆发流血冲突引起舆论批评,估计约有超过100人遭到杀害。一边是人们为争取西藏独立死去,一边则是人民欢天喜地迎接奥运,非常讽刺。中国藐视人权的例子不只西藏,中国明知北韩难民一旦遣返回国将遭处死刑,仍执意将其遣返。 我个人认为中国并没有举办奥运的资格,中国对于人权没有任何概念,或许因为中国觉得人口多,所以轻视人的生命,从这次的西藏事件,我们可以看到这点(但中国政府却坚称,西藏事件不会为奥运造成任何负面影响。)
  • 对中国而言,奥运可以证明中国的经济成长,然而中国并不瞭解奥运的精神。另外,全世界都不信任中国的农渔产品及食品,近 日,在中 国将报废农产品外销日本的丑闻中,中国否认那是他们的疏失。中国还强行并吞邻国的土地、扭曲史实、东北问题、青少年性交易、滥用童工(不包括青少年)、人 体器官买卖等太多问题无法一一列举,但最重要的是,中国并没有表现出知道自己的错误并企图改正的态度与努力,反而表现出落后的思想,企图隐藏错误,封锁消 息。 好莱坞影星李察吉尔表示:“在这种情况下,如果中国没有表现出应有的态度,改变他们的方针,坦承现况、开放通讯自由,我认为我们该杯葛北京奥运。”部分欧洲政治家将会杯葛奥运,我希望这次运动可以让中国停止强行镇压,反省国家的缺失,如果中国表现出类似的努力,我们可以开心地举办奥运,但我怀疑中国的根本思想是否能有所改变?
isaac Mao

5月3日,World Press Freedom Day - 世界新闻自由日 - 0 views

  • 新闻自由日,一个需要时刻被提醒的纪念日,因为,新闻自由是维系民主制度的重要基建。在新闻自由被解放前,人民无从获得全面资讯,更加无法去辨识社会存在的种种弊端。还记得在这一届大选前,与公正党的立慷出席了一场由学运主办的大选前的分享。那个时候,我们都深深赞成,突破媒体的封锁是民主向前跨进的重要元素。
  • 如果以为仅仅依靠民主制度就可以保证新闻自由,那就大错特错了。即便是在实行民主的西方,在危机时期和很难一眼明断的过渡时期,比如目前的全球化阶段,要做到这一点也十分困难。因为,在这样一些时期,人们有必要和无必要的担心都在急剧增加,谎言和真实,宣传和信息从四面八方扑面而来,使人头晕目眩,不知如何是好。而对人们的这些恐惧和担心作出的政治回答,首先冲击的就是自由言论的权利和报道自由。这一点,在海湾战争,巴尔干冲突以及911恐怖袭击的后果中已经频频得到证实。
  • 一步一脚印,民主向前进!^^
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