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The note arrived in a nearly empty box sent to TIME’s Beijing Bureau. All copies of TIME Magazine’s May 14, 2012 issue with a cover entitled The People’s Republic of Scandal had been “safeguarded by customs.” Apparently, some customs officer had been entrusted with counting each confiscated copy ; there were, the receipt noted, 62 [...]
UPDATE: Chen Guangcheng landed at Newark airport Saturday and was taken to New York University’s campus in Greenwich Village, where he held a brief press conference. Throughout his 17 days of government-imposed isolation at a Beijing hospital, blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng has, with the exception of a brief confab with American diplomats, only had a [...]
Once could have been attributed to a slip of the tongue. But twice? On May 7, an anchor for China’s state-run TV network CCTV, who was chatting with a colleague on the late evening news, remarked: “We all know that the Philippines is China’s inherent territory, and the Philippines belongs to Chinese sovereignty. This is [...]
The rumors have floated around for a while now, as China’s leadership scrambles to contain political scandals and factional infighting that have inconveniently bubbled up just as the country is gearing up for its once-in-a-decade leadership transition. On May 9, Reuters reported its sources had confirmed that China was “seriously considering a delay in its upcoming [...]
And now the waiting game is on. Before leaving Beijing on May 5, visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave positive indications that Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng might be allowed by his homeland to go to the U.S to study. The blind activist, whose dramatic six-day sheltering in the U.S. embassy captured global [...]
A cluster of journalists is crowded around Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing, desperate for a glimpse of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng. One of China’s most respected activists, Chen made a dramatic emergence from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on May 2, after spending six days sheltered there by the Americans. A last-minute deal secured an [...]
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in China for delicate economic talks beginning May 3. But after landing in the Chinese capital, she had another task: a conversation with blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who had just emerged from days of refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and later checked in [...]
On April 22, Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese legal activist named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in 2006, escaped from detention in eastern Shandong province, according to He Peirong, an online advocate who has followed Chen’s case for several years. He, an English teacher who was galvanized by Chen’s plight to engage in [...]
Another day, another juicy detail. Once, political scandals in China took months, even years, to reveal themselves. We are, for instance, still gleaning particulars of the power struggles that culminated in the brutal 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. (Three years ago, a secret journal by one of Tiananmen’s purged liberal protagonists, Zhao Ziyang, was published in English [...]
Burma proved a particularly unwilling member of the British Empire. It took three Anglo-Burmese wars to bring the colony into the fold and rebellions against the colonial overlords erupted with regularity—not to mention resistance from ethnic groups who crowded the so-called Frontier Areas around the Burmese colony proper. Aung San, the father of democracy icon [...]
