Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU) RConversation Last month the U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk sent a letter to the Chinese government requesting information about its censorship practices. The middle kingdom’s response: a polite middle finger. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu declared that Chinese censorship follows “international practice.” Her response is specious given that China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship, as I describe in Chapter 3 of my forthcoming book. The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on SOPA at 10am on Wednesday morning (a few hours from now). Opposition to SOPA is widespread, bipartisan, and international. The New America Foundation (where I am a senior fellow) has signed an open letter to the House Judiciary Committee, along with a list of human rights, civil liberties and public interest groups. We do not dispute that there are hubs of online infringement. The public interest letter details some of those consequences: In my op-ed I conclude:
Danwei China Herald The Peking Duck Ministry of Tofu EmailEmail From MITBBS and Yahoo Xinwen lianbo (新闻联播), or News Broadcast, on China Central Television (CCTV), comes under fire again for its report of an air force training exercise on January 23. In the newscast, the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun. A net user who went by the name “刘毅” (Liu Yi) pointed out that the jet that the J-10 “hit” is an F-5, a US fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5. On the left are screenshots of CCTV News; on the right are screenshots of Top Gun. Comments from MITBBS: loveast: ? hopemore: It’s not about real fight. forestzhao: Chinese version of Top Gun zhcs: Ai, what a tragedy. zengm:Is it for real? grass007: …A disgrace indeed… Comments from PCHome: 弄潮儿daliujia: It’s just borrowing. 锦衣夜行liubeibeig: A country that is always daydreaming.. Related articles: