1. Media Outlets Protest State Editorial on Southern Weekly

    Major Chinese media outlets today are showing solidarity with the Southern Weekly strikers, in an unprecedented display of resistance against [...]

  2. China Tries Twitter Diplomacy?

    This week, the China-watching twitterverse was surprised to discover that Hu Xijin, the editor of the Global Times, was now tweeting. That [...]

  3. Can China Control Social Media?

    Chinese state media bid 2011 adieu with a steady drumbeat for name registration on Weibo, the most popular micro-blogging site. [...]

  4. Depressing on Ai Weiwei

    The state-run Global Times has an editorial up today that might be amusing in its vagueness if it wasn’t so [...]

  5. The Confucius Peace Prize

    Global Times has long been criticized by Western mainstream media as being nothing more than a nationalist tabloid. So when [...]