Just as Sino-US tensions seemed to be easing after months of discontent, the US has risked irritating Beijing a little more. This week, the Washington Post reported that the US State Department has decided to fund the Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC), an Internet freedom group run largely by F4lun G0ng practitioners. more ›

This weekend, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was charged with ‘inciting subversion’. Today, facing a barrage of criticism over its handling of the case, the PRC responded with a gentle reminder for the West to not interfere. more ›

"Minor axis of evil" -- an elliptical (pun intended) statement by which we really mean China consorts with terrorists. Yes folks, this is what the US State Department spokesman implied through his comments regarding Iran's presence at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting. According to this spokesman, inviting Iran over casts doubt on the SCO's self-proclaimed mission of combating terrorism and extremism in the region. more ›

When the US State Department’s purchase of 16,000 desktop PCs from Chinese manufacturer Lenovo ran into a chorus of naysayers in the Congress, Shanghaiist chimed in. more ›

Shanghaiist can remember our first glimpse into the general issue of human rights in China back in freshman year of college. We are certainly not going to get into a debate about the state of China’s progress on the matter, or how accurate or overblown or underreported the situation may or may not be. We just know that our first look came from a very thick 2000 US State Department annual human rights report on China … and it was not a pretty picture. more ›