"Today, the West feels very shy about human rights and the political situation. They’re in need of money. But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights. With globalization and the Internet, we all know it. Don’t pretend you don’t know it. The Western politicians—shame on them if they say they’re not responsible for this. It’s getting worse, and it will keep getting worse.” more ›

Noam Chomsky was in China recently, delivering a speech at Peking University and then conducting an interview with Southern Metropolis Daily. The folks at Global Voices Online have translated the questions (and re-translated the answers) - while he talks about the U.S. trying to force its views on China (yet anther example of American imperialism for him) and China's need to stop being the factory of the world, the author of Media Control is surprisingly silent on propaganda, only criticizing the West's use of advertising to influence elections. Or maybe he wasn't and it just wasn't published. Who knows! more ›

We've been somewhat faithful readers of Foreign Policy for awhile and noticed that they had a couple of articles that either mention or focus on China in their recent issue. Jeff Chang has written an article called It's a Hip-Hop World where he talks about how globalized hip hop has become, and, in this context, mentions Shanghai. More worrisome than a bunch of seventeen-year-olds in baggy pants is information we found in the article on... more ›