Sometimes you have to let people simply say, “I told you so…” The announcement yesterday that the government would be “delaying” its ruling requiring all computers sold in China after July 1 to have the allegedly anti-porn software pre-installed is just such an occassion. The gentlemen at the China law blog did indeed write an …

There have been a wide range of comments in various media making comparisons between Tiananmen in 1989 and Teheran today, including one of our own posts, which wondered about the authorities reactions in China. Over at the China Media Project, David Bandurski highlighted a Guangming Daily article which blamed western media forces for …

China scolds the U.S. The U.S. scolds China. It’s sort of like the China Blog’s comments section! But the back and forth between Washington and Beijing over protectionism risks touching off a dangerous trade war. My story on the prospects of that is here.

I have thus far resisted the temptation to write about what’s happening in Iran and what took place in Tiananmen Square in 1989. The differences are so huge (an election for one thing, however flawed, along with a completely different ruling structure, not to mention history, society etc, all very different), it seems to me, to make …

Danwei notes that the everready bunny of dissenting voices in China, artists Ai Weiwei (see numerous past posts) is at it again, this time calling for a boycott of the internet on July 1st the protest the Green Dam ruling. (See also past posts below), Reuters story here.

Our story on this here. In a slightly creepy related note, the official outfit that started the ball rolling by acccusing Google of being porn merchants in China, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center (thrill a minute website here) is getting proactive. I got an email yesterday saying that they had signed up to follow …

Another mass incident involving tens of thousands in Hubei Province. And once again it was sparked by what would normally be a relatively minor dispute over an alleged suicide. The speed of the reaction (and numbers) by townspeople to the rumors that police/officials may have been involved in the death is testament to the extraordinary …

To follow up on Simon’s previous post on Beijing’s recent bout of bad air, here’s my story about real-time pollution monitoring. For an in-depth look on air quality in the Chinese capital, I recommend checking out the blog Live From Beijing. And finally, a new study suggests that the good air conditions during last year’s Olympics owed …

We Beijingers have been spoiled in the last few months, with many gloriously clear and minimally polluted days. Today we got a rude reminder of how awful the city can still be. The air smells like a garbage fire and at four o’clock in the afternoon visibility dropped to a few hundred meters. I’d be willing to bet the API must be well …

Here’s my latest story on time.com about a group of Chinese human rights lawyers who are at risk of losing their licenses for taking controversial cases.

This is from the Financial Times:

US firm warns PC makers over Chinese software

By Kathrin Hille in Beijing

Solid Oak, the developer of one of the US’ leading net nanny software products, has started legal action to stop HP and Dell from shipping PCs equipped with a Chinese censorship software that it alleges contains codes stolen

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Deng Yujiao, the pedicurist/karaoke bar waitress (like everything else in this story the details keep changing) who stabbed and killed a Communist Party cadre after he tried to force her to have sex with him (these exact details also very fuzzy) has been freed by a court in her native Hubei Province. (Here’s the latest official version …