An article in this morning’s wall street journal commends a coalition of business associations and councils that sent a letter to China’s Premier publicly criticizing the latest attempt to censor information Chinese citizens can access on the internet. The green dam-youth escort mandate would require all computers going into the nation to be equipped with an information blocking software.

It is rare public criticism of China’s policy, but it’s not brave, it will do nothing to change the policy, and reveals the…

Read the full story

Each year, Forbes magazine produces a list of the 100 richest people in China. But no rich people would like to appear in it. Why? After several years, the people whose names appear in it would be sent to jail, almost unavoidably. It would likely become an index for the prosecutor to find out the people who didn’t pay their taxes, tried to bribe government officials or didn’t carry out other citizens’ obligations. Recently, Guangyu Huang, the richest person of…

Read the full story