In a seeming Schrödinger’s cat scenario, Chinese officials have refuted a Reuters report claiming that China is in negotiations with Google. Because the back-and-forth claims are a little tricky to follow, we broke it down to a he-said-she-said format. more ›

We all knew it, but it's still nice to hear it coming from the top. Li Yizhong, Minister of industry and information technology, has admitted that the failed launch of that widely protested Green Dam Youth Escort was kind of a mistake. Li said that the order that went out sounded too much like the ministry was bullying people to install the program, but that had never been the government's intention. He then followed this up by saying that schools and internet cafes would still be required to install Green Dam on all computers... once the developers had improved the software's performance and closed all its security loopholes. Okay, so the fight isn't over yet, apparently. The one question we have: why are they bringing all this up again now? Source: SCMP more ›