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20 Nov 09
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Angolan gangs targeting Chinese migrant workers? Are Angolan gangs targeting Chinese workers? |
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18 Nov 09
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IPR Theft: Who is robbing Who? It's an age old story, and one that's all to familiar to Western companies dealing with China. You create a product - expending time and money on research, development and design - then you find a business partner to manufacture and/or distri |
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14 Nov 09
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Beijing: Death not linked to Swine Flu Vaccine Chinese health authorities have now officially ruled out a link between the death of a Mainlander and the Chinese swine flu vaccination program. |
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06 Nov 09
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china: from Silk Road to Cr*p Road From silk Road to Cr*p Road: China has forged an identity as being the word's leading supplier of junk. |
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01 Nov 09
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China Daily website infected by Internet virus? Is the China Daily website really being used to spread computer viruses over the internet, or is it all one big false alarm? |
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22 Oct 09
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Beijing - Foreign companies now barred form Chinese online gaming market Are you game? If you're a foreign company looking to invest in China's online game market the answer is apparently now a big fat BU. |
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11 Oct 09
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Hummer: A slice of America, purchased by China? What does the sale of Hummer to a Chinese company China have to do with Jewish bankers and scaly space aliens? Very little, it would appear. |
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08 Oct 09
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US Media giant sued for distributing Chinese censorship software The Green Dam aftershock is felt around the world. this time hitting US media giant CBS. Which is facing a million dollar lawsuit for its part in distributing the much feted Green Dam censorship software. |
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04 Oct 09
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Uyghur Exile to Sue Taiwanese Government? Exiled Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer may be preparing to take legal action against the Taiwanese government over accusations that they are involved with an Islamic terrorist group. While questions are raised as to whether the group even exists. |
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26 Sep 09
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Tibetan borders closed to foreigners, or are they? Are Tibet's borders closed to foreign travelers? |
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26 Sep 09
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Project Green Dam: Harmony V Privacy The age old debate Harmony v Privacy represented by means of a crab and a squat toilet. |
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22 Sep 09
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Saving The Panda is Not Cost Effective Panda's are not cost effective. They are a mistake of nature, doomed species, and trying to prolong their existence is a waste of time and money. |
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19 Sep 09
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Project Green Dam: Wacky Wabbits Since their inception, one common component of Green Dam Girl images has been the inclusion of a rabbit, or at least something alluding to a rabbit.Why a rabbit? You may ask. Well, the answer is simple. In their infinite wisdom those behind Green Dam |
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15 Sep 09
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Teachers: "Green Dam Must Go" Things have gone from bad to worse for Beijing's Green Dam Internet filtering software. This time it's the teachers who are up in arms. Apparently Green Dam lobotomizes essential school software. |
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12 Sep 09
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Beijing: Music downloads must be pre approved by the state As governments go, Beijing is quite complex: It governs the world's largest continuous territory, rules over the world's largest consolidated population, and it has to deal 56 separate ethnic peoples, as well as numerous sub groups within the |
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06 Sep 09
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Project Green Dam: 3D Crabs in Action Here are a couple of examples of ACB's draft Harmonious Crabs in action.The first image shows the 3D crab scaled to fit on Green Dam girl's cap as is traditional. It's quite small so the loss lack of detail isn't a big issue.Girls, th |
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06 Sep 09
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Project Green Dam: 3D Crab ACB's experi"Mental" 3D Green Dam river Grab. Take 1. |
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01 Sep 09
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Japan's elections: A China Watcher's View Does a change in Japan's government herald a new beginning for the Sino-Japanese relationship, more of the same, or worse conflicts still to come? |
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30 Aug 09
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Green Dam(n) Girl: First Draft With all of the fun little avatars and Moe-Chan's going around in relation to Beijing's notorious Green Dam(n) censorship software, ACB though that they would throw something into the fray. Of course, not being a natural artist this presented |
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22 Aug 09
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Western games developers told "Learn from China" When you think of computer games power houses Mainland China doesn't exactly spring to mind, but according to industry experts "the China path" may hold the key to the industry's future. |
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15 Aug 09
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The Great Green Dam(n) Climbdown Beijing backs down on controversial Green dam(n) software. |
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09 Aug 09
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The great Chinese abortion debate For years the Chinese government has promoted abortions as being a little spoken of but necessary part of the One-Child policy, but recent studies have thrown up worrying figures, and have raised questions regarding abortion and sex education. |
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31 Jul 09
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Fenqing mar international film festival Just as people have embarrassing relatives who insist on popping up at inopportune moment so countries have embarrassing citizens who show up at inconvenient times and do inconvenient things. In China's case, these peoepl are usually Fenqing. |
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18 Jul 09
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Chinese Lawyers: Beijing's policies to blame for Tibetan unrest. When violent protests broke out in Tibet, Beijing was quick to place the blame a small group of foreign backed separatists and agitators acting in cahoots with the Dali Lama. However, one of China's most outspoken legal groups says otherwise. |
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12 Jul 09
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Religion in China: A Matter of Faith? What does the future hold for China now that the old restrictions on religion are slowly being relaxed?
Is this the dawn of a brave new era for China's faithful, or is faith just another channel through which Beijing will attempt to control the mass |
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28 Jun 09
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Internet Censorship: Green Dam, Beijing and Beyond Over the last month there have been a number of noteworthy topics in the new regarding China, but one topic seems to have come to dominate the big Western media: The controversy over "Green Dam Youth Escort" Internet-filtering software.To c |
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26 Jun 09
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US Gas Guzzlers a step too far for "Made in China"? Will Hummer's appalling environmental record prove too much for even Beijing's regulators to swallow? Reports in the Chinese media suggest that ti just might. |
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07 Jun 09
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Cleared of all charges: Phantom Shoe Thrower is a free man Britain's infamous Phantom Shoe Thrower walks free as all charges dismissed. |
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03 Jun 09
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Beijing cranks up web censorship in run up to Tiananmen anniversary ACB wishes offer their humble apologies for the action of the Chinese government in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. For the disruption that Beijing has caused to people attempting to go about their lawful business |
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03 Jun 09
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A brief history of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre In June 1989 the Mainland Chinese government sent in tanks and troops to crush peaceful demonstrators who had gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. And every years since it has done it's level best to prevent the Chinese people from discussing a |
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02 Jun 09
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And so it begins: Tiananmen Square 2009 Once again Beijing demonstrates a predictable lack of originality. |
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30 May 09
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Not in my Backyard: US refuses to accept/return Uighur Refugees The specter the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp has once again risen to haunt America this week. This time in relation to a group of ethnic Uighur whom Washington is both refusing accept on its soil and is refusing to send them home.The men, member |
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25 May 09
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Attempted Suicide, or Attempted Murder? Attempted suicide, or attempted murder? |
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16 May 09
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The Memoirs of Zhao Ziyang: Topping China's prohibited books list? One of the best books never to be published in China? |
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10 May 09
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Beijing still suppressing quake parents When it comes to embarrassing or awkward situations governments can be be rather predictable. They tend to have a set repertoire of responses which they apply to any and all situations, and which they stick to doggedly, and Beijing is no exception. |
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03 May 09
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Latin America: The next Sino-US Battleground? Is Latin America set to be the next economic and ideological battleground between the US and China, or the next damp squib thrown up by Anti-China alarmists? |
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24 Apr 09
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FLG: The worlds most pathetic frame up? Beijing has a well known reputation for cracking down on any organized group that are not under its direct control. It's nothing new. Indeed, Beijing even clamped down on fan clubs trying to boost support for their favorite reality TV stars. But, ove |
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18 Apr 09
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Germans forced to apologies over Mao-Condom debacle It's not everyday that you get to post a headline like "Germans forced to apologies over Mao-Condom debacle". So, let's make the most of it. |
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13 Apr 09
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Sino-US Adoption Plummets. But is Beijing attempting to enforce Chinese values on American Parents? As Sino-US adoption rates plummet to cold war lows questions are asked as to whether this trend is due to changes in Chinese society, or if it is down to Beijing's parental screening process. |
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11 Apr 09
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BMJ: China's gender imbalance is wide, and is growing. There are a great many things in China that can be considered 'open secrets' these days. Things that every body knows about, but which people don't like to speak of. One of the most well known of these open secrets is that there aren' |
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05 Apr 09
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Beijing reopens Sino-Tibetan. West barely notices. China unseals the Tibetan borders to non HAN, West takes no notice. |
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29 Mar 09
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Website accusing China of Cyber-Warfare becomes a victim of it? Shortly after it announced that it was to publish a report accusing China of being behind a massive online espionage ring the website belonging to the Western pressure group Information Warfare Monitor went off line. As yet no official word on whethe |
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29 Mar 09
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Chinese hackers infiltrate world embassies? Apparently China is spying on the computers of various international embassies by using malware to snatch data from their hard disc and to relay it back to China.From the pen of Charmaine Horonha. Researchers: Cyber spies break into govt computersA c |
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24 Mar 09
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The strength of the dollar is that people believe that it is strong? An article was recently brought to ACB's attention, from the pen of one Jerry Robinson (The preacher, not the comic book artist). It has its faults, and ACB doesn't exactly see eye to eye with the author, but it is quite a good debate starter |
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22 Mar 09
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Banned in China: The Geng He Interview The interview with the wife of dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng that Beijing didn't want you to hear. |
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21 Mar 09
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Tiananmen soldier held after speaking to foreign press It's rare for a Chinese soldier to speak out about what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and this is why. |
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14 Mar 09
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Family of missing Chinese lawyer in US asylum bid Family of missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng make a bid for political asylum in the US. |
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08 Mar 09
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Beijing: Everything is fine in Tibet, but you can't go there Beijing: Everything is perfectly fine in Tibet, you're just not allowed to see what is going on there. |
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28 Feb 09
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China to Washington: Your human rights record stinks, too The shoe is on the other foot as Beijing releases a surprisingly accurate report on America's human rights record. Download it here, and read ACB's analysis. |
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22 Feb 09
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Beijing to try would-be land protester When ACB started writing this blog ACB had a number of aims in mind. Amongst these aims two of the ones that feature the heaviest are as follows:1) To correct common misconceptions about China created by foreigner's scant knowledge of its history |
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