by Simon Cousins | Jan 10, 2018 | China business
On June 4th, 2010, a piece of news surfaced on the website of Xinhua News Agency, starting with a rather exciting and disturbing paragraph: “A safe with confidential document inside was put into a special device. All of a sudden it vanished, and reappeared inside...
by Kane Gao | Jul 20, 2012 | China business
Today provides us with a fascinating look behind the curtain of Chinese media, its hidebound hierarchical system, and its approach to fact-checking. This short post concerns how an erroneous story published by a respected Chinese news source can blanket the Chinese...