1. Cross-Strait Media Deals Spark Concern in Taiwan

    Student protestors opposing media monopolization in Taiwan began the year by issuing a public declaration that read, in part: “…We [...]

  2. 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 [...]

  3. Xi Jinping: China’s First Social Media President?

    Here's something you don't see every day: the official voice of a one-party state embracing the power of social media [...]

  4. India Treads China Censor Path

    The world’s largest democracy prides itself on being the “free” rising Asian giant. But is India taking a leaf out [...]

  5. Reporting on China

    Thirty years ago, former ABC China correspondent Jim Laurie says, the human rights issue was among the most difficult topics [...]

  6. China Tightens Media Grip

    China is tightening its rules on reporting, insisting that media outlets don’t report on stories that appear in social media [...]

  7. Chinese Media’s Ostrich Policy

    A friend of mine who recently returned from Tokyo asked me why the Chinese media has only been reporting on [...]

  8. Ai Weiwei and Colour Crackdowns

    Two days after he was detained at Beijing airport and there’s still no word on the whereabouts of activist artist [...]