China’s Color-Coded Crackdown – Yongding
From Foreign Policy: The recent democratic revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kirgizstan sent small tremors through China’s leadership. To avoid its own “color revolution” Beijing is now quietly...
View Article‘Irrational’ fear of revolution brings tighter controls, says activist –...
From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The Chinese leadership has developed an “irrational fear” of so-called colour revolutions, leading to a tightening of controls over political...
View ArticleBeijing blocks foreign newspapers – Mure Dickie
From The Financial Times: Western newspapers in ChinaBeijing has halted plans to allow foreign newspapers to print in China because of concerns raised by recent “colour revolutions” against...
View ArticlePolitical advisory system can help China avoid “color revolution”: advisor –...
From People’s Daily (link): China’s political consultative system can help the country avoid “color revolution” — a turmoil that troubled some central Asian nations launched by foreign hostile forces,...
View ArticleThe China Factor – Min Zin
From The Bangkok Post : Sunday Perspective: A few weeks after the protests last year in Burma, a Chinese diplomat approached an influential Burmese advocate in New York and asked why the Burmese dubbed...
View ArticleChina’s Political Colours: From Monochrome to Palette
Jeffrey N Wasserstrom writes on the opendemocracy.net: A dramatic but largely unacknowledged shift has recently taken place in how the past is understood in China. One way to think about this Chinese...
View ArticleAuthoritarian Regimes Censor News From Iran
The Washington Post looks at the Chinese reaction online, and from government censors, toward recent protests in Iran: In China, political commentators tinted their blogs and Twitters green to show...
View ArticleA Color Revolution In China? Keep It Red.
The empty chair at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10 will no doubt be a cause for Western politicians and commentators to again condemn China’s authoritarian regime. Please read...
View ArticleXinhua on Revolution in Egypt
Xinhua reported on the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and called for “renewed stability and social order” in Egypt as soon as possible: A step that was received with victorious crowds...
View ArticleHoward French: The View of Cairo from Authoritarian International
In the Atlantic, Howard French, former Shanghai bureau chief for the New York Times, writes that the recent revolution in Egypt has “shaken up the conventional wisdom” about China and about the...
View ArticleCould Mideast Revolutions Spread to China?
In the Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon asks whether Chinese society is ready for a revolutionary movement like those rising up in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world: The main reasons the crowds...
View ArticleAre The “Flower Revolutions” In The Middle East And North Africa Endangering...
These are fascinating times, as the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East might well be the beginning of a “Fourth Wave” of Democracy. Christian Göbel blogs for Barha, A Nordic Asia Research...
View ArticleVideo Warns of Foreign-backed “Color Revolution”
The South China Morning Post has shared an English-subtitled version of an ultra-nationalistic video released on Weibo by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, China’s top prosecution body. The video,...
View ArticleMinitrue Diary, January 15, 2020: K-drama “Psychopath Diary,” Trade Deal,...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council Report Cites Intimidation, Reprisals against Chinese...
A September 17 advance report from the UN Human Rights Council notes that the Chinese government has engaged in intimidation and reprisals against activists who have cooperated with the United Nations...
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