accountability

Never offend your rulers by inappropriate answers.
When you are blue just knock on wood.
      

Related Justrecently Story: Dear Fenqings
My good friend Taide brought an article to my attention: “Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves?”
The Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves article (in the following: angry article or angry author) refers to an earlier article by Jamil Anderlini in the Financial Times.
I have no doubt that [...]

The Western China-related blogosphere sometimes seems to be split down the middle - pandahuggers and pandabashers. (Actually, I think it is a bit unfair to equate the Pandas and China in its current shape. Imaginative Chinese people make take offense from that because they think of themselves as self-strenghtening and rising while Pandas are kind of [...]

After the indictment and intermittend detention of recent Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian, the Special Investigation Panel of the Supreme Prosecutor’s office said yesterday it would investigate former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) on suspicion of money laundering.  — Story here.
At first glance, I would congratulate Taiwan for its efficient judiciary. They seem to achieve something that France [...]

After many twists and turns, they have got a copy of Hu Jia’s medical examination results, Zeng Jinyan writes in her blog today. However, the copy doesn’t contain results concerning HBV-DNA, and the prison staff say that when they made the copy, the report didn’t include the enclosures. A change in Hu Jia’s medication seems [...]

The Times Blog posts an excerpt from a speech to the United Nations by Deng Xiaoping in April 1974:
If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius [...]

Taiwan milk tea as it is sold in mainland China tastes strong and sweet. Hong Kong-style milk tea tastes more bitter. When the State Security offers me tea, I usually choose Hong Kong-style tea.
This afternoon (December 16) State Security again “invited me for tea”. First to talk on the Charter 08: two questions, one suggestion. [...]

There are some international news websites I usually don’t link to. Seems to me that their pages get removed frequently, maybe in order to save server space. But more recently, I’ve found out that there are other pages too that get lost too soon after linking to them.
Like the patriotic reincarnation theory for example, which I found on [...]

Chinese Law Prof Network published an analysis of Liu Xiaobo’s detention, probably in the wake of the publication of the Charter 08.
Another entry of the same day on the same website: lecturer on human rights sought for course at Northeastern Normal University, Changchun.
      

… that the year of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights won’t pass without this collectible…
… appearing on this blog, here it is. Radio Canada International (RCI), like many other local and international radio stations, confirmed reports on its shortwave broadcasts with QSL cards, and this one came from Montreal in [...]