Cyberwarfare: The Issue China Won't Touch – China News

Human rights violations in Tibet, arrests of activists and the issue of Internet freedom figured prominently during two-days of "candid" dialogue between the US and China, officials said.

Today though I wanted to look at one of the bigger problems with bureaucracy, not that it simply wastes time, but that having millions (literally) of officials with a little bit of status and a small amount of power can be an incredibly dangerous thing.

Tai Wang Mak dialed a phone number in Guangzhou, China.
The man who answered, Pu Pei-liang, was a researcher at the Chinese Center for Asia Pacific Studies at Zhongshan University, known to U.S. intelligence officials as CAPS.

A new feature on Lost Laowai, Fact or Fiction pairs LLW blogger Glen up with a guest (in this post, yours truly) to label and discuss a number of topics either being "fact" or "fiction". See if you agree with either of us as we touch on the GFW/Twitter, Obama's visit, the 60th anniversary and a few more topics.

North Korea's top nuclear envoy, Kim Kye Gwan, flew to Beijing earlier in the day to discuss nuclear talks with Chinese officials. The flurry of diplomacy heightened speculation that there could be a breakthrough to jump-start the stalled talks to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear programs.

BEIJING - The basis of human rights is fairness of the law, granting people freedom of action - of which the right to free expression is one part. This idea makes it even harder to approach the issue of human rights in China, as it is not simply the issue of dissidents voicing their opposition, it is also an issue ingrained in the very structure of the exercise of power in China.

After a long delay, we have completed issue #9. Seeing as it is a lucky number, we probably should have gone with a nine dragon theme for the cover, but we elected to use an image of the pagodas of Guilin. Perhaps we’ll save the dragons for the new year and our 10th issue.

Most Chinese are farmers, and farming is no easy business in China. This has become a political issue, in recent years. The key for a more even distribution of the country's growing wealth lies in its rural areas.

A standard, even boring, piece of Chinese military propaganda screened in mid-July included what must have been an unintended but nevertheless damaging revelation: shots from a computer screen showing a Chinese military university is engaged in cyberwarfare against entities in the United States.