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February 2006



Independence or Bust: Brinkmanship across the Taiwan Striates

Monday, 27 February 2006 11:43 P GMT+09
Despite pledging not to, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-Bian, has Today, officially announced the dissolution of the Sino-Taiwanese "National Reunification Council". A move that comes much to Beijing's ire, and Washington's dismay.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese News and Perspectives
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Revealing State Secrets: China's Justice system goes under the microscope

Monday, 27 February 2006 5:31 P GMT+09
Every year, dozens of Chinese are convicted for "revealing state secrets" or "endangering state security", but what exactly do these charges mean, and are these security trial really any harsher than China's criminal courts, or Americas?
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives Sino-European
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Military Power of the People's Republic of China: Download (Official DoD report)

Sunday, 26 February 2006 11:03 P GMT+09
According to Congress, “China is a military threat”, do they know something that we don't? Not any more, Download the official report to Congress on China's military power and rise, as written by the DoD.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American News and Perspectives

Testimony of A Tiananmen Square Survivor: - Ma Shao-fang

Saturday, 25 February 2006 11:59 P GMT+09
The testimony of Ma Shao-fang, student and survivor of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives

Testimony of A Tiananmen Square Survivor: - Cheng Zhen

Friday, 24 February 2006 11:59 P GMT+09
The testimony of Cheng Zhen, student and survivor of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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Testimony of A Tiananmen Square Survivor: - Wuer Kaixi

Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:41 P GMT+09
The testimony of Wuer Kaixi, student leader and survivor of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives

Testimony of A Tiananmen Square Survivor: - Zhang Boli

Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:36 P GMT+09
The testimony of Zhang Boli, student leader and survivor of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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Now you see it, now you don't: The Mystery of the Vanishing CIA Reports

Wednesday, 22 February 2006 4:57 A GMT+09
If you head down to the US National Archive today, looking for information on China, you might find that some of the shelves are a little lighter than they were the last time you visited. Why? because they have now been reclassified as 'Top-secret'.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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Confirm a friend, Catch a crook, or Betray your neighbors: China's surveillance state goes mobile

Saturday, 18 February 2006 9:28 P GMT+09
As of this year, China's “Big Brother” has a new and exciting sibling. One that allows you to confirm your friends identity, or betray him to Beijing for being a Taiwanese spy, using only a cell phone and his ID card.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Taiwanese Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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Censorship or "supervisory measures" : - Beijing blasts Washington for "double standards"

Wednesday, 15 February 2006 7:26 P GMT+09
As Washington looks set to move against US companies that are complicit in Chinese censorship, Beijing hits out at what it sees as 'Double Standards', and observers point out that, to a small extent at least, China might actually be right.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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Truth, Justice - or a near sighted attack on the Chinese way

Monday, 13 February 2006 8:22 P GMT+09
A one step forward for freedom, two steps back for the economy, or a long sidestep into Cold War paranoia? Opinions abound as Congress steps up it scrutiny of US firms operating in China.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms
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China Voices 4: East meets West (When cultures collide)

Saturday, 11 February 2006 8:11 P GMT+09
For better or worse, China is now a part of the word at large, and just as its opening up has allowed a flood of Chinese goods out, it has also allowing a flood of western culture in. Something that both sides have had some strong words to say about.
Category: Sino-American News and Perspectives
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Strike Force Taiwan: Taiwan

Sunday, 5 February 2006 11:49 P GMT+09
If China ever were to attack Taiwan, what assets does the island have in it's favor?
Category: Sino-American Sino-Taiwanese News and Perspectives
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Rising China: An enemy at Tokyo's Gate?

Sunday, 5 February 2006 5:00 A GMT+09
With Sino-Japanese relations at an all time low, Chinese jets constantly probing Japanese air defenses, and the Pentagon warnings over China's rising military, is the enemy really at Tokyo's gate? According to Tokyo, the answer is ......
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese News and Perspectives
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Strike Force Taiwan: China

Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:49 A GMT+09
Have you ever wondered exactly how much firepower China has aimed at Taiwan, at any one moment in time?
Category: Off Topic Sino-Taiwanese News and Perspectives

US tech giants in censorship scandal no show

Wednesday, 1 February 2006 8:07 P GMT+09
It has been announced that representatives from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Cisco have refused to attend a Congressional Caucus hearing, scheduled to be held today, to discuss the complicity of US technology firms in internet censorship.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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