The word from Premier Wen Jiabao at the opening of this year’s National People’s Congress was that China should open up even further to the outside world. But when it comes to managing the news media, old habits die hard. The NPC coincided with the BBC’s special...
The FCCC and a Japanese journalists group in Beijing have both sent letters of complaint to the Foreign Ministry over the rough handling of reporters by security agents trying to break up a news conference at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in January. About 30...
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears, does it make a sound? Apparently that’s what the leadership was testing with the death of Zhao Ziyang – to the extent that it could. Handling the passing of the Communist Party chief who wept before students in Tiananmen...
