China’s Internet Growth: The Bad News

China has experienced growth in its internet population that even exceeds its overall economic growth. According to Internet World Stats China’s growth in internet population has grown 620% since 2000. With an internet population of 162 million, China is only surpassed by the United States at 211 million, again according to Internet World [...]

Apparatchiks and Journalists

Asia Times Online is an excellent online magazine dedicated to Asia. They describe themselves as the successor to Asia Times that went under about ten years ago.
A recent article by Sunny Lee piqued my interest. It’s called “Beware the ‘Old China’ Syndrome” and can be found here.
The article is about the possibility that [...]

*Yawn* Yet Another GFW Post

Every two or three months there’s another round of Great Firewall (GFW) stories. They usually crop up when some notable site on the internet is blocked or unblocked in China.
The sinocentric blogosphere has mercifully reached the point where most of the conversation is about getting around the firewall as opposed to ranting about it.
Since [...]