How would clashes of civilizations take place from now on?

Written by He Qinglian on September 8, 2011

(translated by krizcpec)

The year 2011 will be an important one in world history. Because in this year, the outbreak of “Jasmine Revolutions” in MENA make it clear that—

One) The main impetus of these revolutions is the awakening rights consciousness of the people. Given that rights consciousness is something unique to Western civilization, thus the so-called “clash of civilizations” has changed from wars between countries as well as the war on terror into confrontations between the people requesting their rights and the leader holding onto their powers inside totalitarian states;

Two) The clash between Western and Muslim civilizations has relegated to secondary status while the clash between the pseudo-Chinese civilization—a combination of Oriental despotism and Communism—and the Western civilization will become increasingly sharpened in the form of internal confrontations. 

The Power of Weibo: Bringing Transparency to Concealed Truth

Written on July 29, 2011
(Translated by krizcpec)

Those who want to have full understanding of the Wenzhou train collision that happened on July 23, 2011 may find the most comprehensive source of information to be microblogging (Weibo), instead of print media. I believe it is the unique function of information dissemination that made everything more transparent, and thereby revealing, to the extreme embarrassment of the Chinese government, the opacity of the country's social management.

Google's China Problem is Far From Over

February 17, 2010

As this article was being finished, the question of whether Google will leave China for good is still unresolved. But Google’s voice of opposition has already softened, and it could either stay in China, or go. Suspicions have been circulating that agents inside Google may have been connected to the recent attacks, and shortly after the announcement Chinese and American officials held meeting after meeting to air their views on the question of Internet freedom. Leaving aside the ostensible reason for this incident—cyber attacks—this article explores the particular challenges that Google and other Internet companies face in China.