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Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of the great joys of my pox-afflicted Christmas vacation was having one of my annual bursts of unfettered Internet use. After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked ...

An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which, airplanes aside, felt like it was all in slow motion). More on the parade from me ...

We interrupt this hiatus, as we threatened we would from time to time, to bring you some video from this evening's dress rehearsal for the upcoming military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. As it happens, the mustering area for many of the armored vehicles participating in the parade is just north of my ...

Yes, it's true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They're in your bank account. They're in the Pentagon. They're sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they're completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least that's the terrifying conclusion one might draw if one was to read a long article from the ...

Further to recent salacious reports of sinister Chinese plots to hack into the Pentagon/the White House/NORAD/your refrigerator, some lucid analysis of reporting on the issue from Adam Minter. Adam did a Q&A with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, author of a recent Popular Science article on Chinese hackers. The two of them manage to strip some of ...

Take a moment and read Rebecca MacKinnon's post on her recent interview with the founders of Anti-CNN, the Chinese website that sprang up in the wake of what was seen by many Chinese people to be biased coverage of the unrest in Tibet in March, 2008. A very interesting overview of the attitudes and intentions of the people behind a site that ...

        MCNAMARA    I believe the President made it clear    that there would be no firing on ships    without his express permission.        ADMIRAL ANDERSON    With all due respect, Mr. Secretary, we    were not ...

Imagethief was interested to have a look at the BBC World Service's recent poll (PDF) on public views of several major countries and the EU. I came across this via the blog of former China journalist John Pomfret, who called out China's extremely positive self-image:A new poll by researchers at the University of Maryland and Globescan sums it ...

Nothing as timely as the blogs, I tell you. As everyone on the planet now knows, the Coke-Huiyuan deal has fallen through. It retrospect, it wasn't particularly surprising. It broke new ground in size, and public sentiment was never behind the deal. David Wolf and Dan Harris have both written good posts about this, and I recommend taking the time ...

Imagethief had a lot of time for Richard Spencer's blog when Spencer was the Daily Telegraph's man in Beijing. Richard was rather ahead of the blogging journalist wave. He has recently moved on to a new posting in Dubai (where I presume he is now covering the decline of the overextended emirate), but he gave a parting interview to Danwei's Alice ...