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After you swallow a fair dose of the Chinapocalypse coverage that tends to ricochet through western media it can be nice to have a little antidote. John Pomfret, the former Beijing bureau chief of the Washington Post and a long-time China correspondent, has written an opinion piece that attempts to cut through some of the common, alarmist (from a ...

The interesting top banner from Sina's page dedicated to the perfidy of western media:   Click on the image or the web page link above for the (large) full size version. The Chinese reads (as best I can translate it):Rise up! Angrily resist the demonization of the Tibet affair!Chinese netizens roast CNN and other western media! Note the ...

CNN hasn't had a good go of things in China recently. Roundly pilloried for allegedly ''biased'' coverage of the riots in Tibet, they found themselves the subject of a popular website, ''Anti-CNN'', and featured in a critical video that went viral in China and on YouTube (and is now part of a running series). At a somewhat more sinister level, the ...

Responding to recent reports that the Chinese government is seeking external counsel, they write:After facing major protests in London and Paris as the Olympic torch made stops on its journey to Beijing, the Chinese government is said to be looking for a public relations firm to patch up China’s image before the 2008 Games in August. In the spirit ...

Imagethief just dragged his weary self off of the eleven hour flight from Beijing to San Francisco, where he is spending a couple of hours before connecting on to San Diego. Having been following the what's been following around the Olympic Torch Relay for the past few days, I was curious to see if there were any signs of the impending arrival of ...

One of the hallmarks of bad China journalism is reacting hysterically when China is found to be doing things that everyone else is doing. Unfortunately, it happens rather a lot, presumably because hysteria shifts more units than thoughtful, reasonable analysis. The result is that complex issues often get reduced to fearmongering or xenophobic ...

I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxedControversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation of a previously announced measure to censor pornography on the Internet at a ...

Oh no! The Japanese Chinese are buying up all of America's property investment banks! Is this the end of the American way of life? Probably not. From the New York Times, which reports on Morgan Stanley's mortgage-induced financial woes and subsequent sale of a 10 percent stake to China's sovereign investment fund:As for the investment from China, ...

Via David Wolf's Peking Review, an interesting article from the Boston Globe analyzing China's current quality and regulatory problems and comparing them to what the US went through in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's a few days old, but I just discovered it. There have been several articles like this recently, but this one, written by ...