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Did Jinan hire a professional basketball player as police officer to tower over Bo Xilai in court? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:17 am
At least one of the two police officers accompanying Bo in court may be a professional basketball player who is 2.02 meters tall (about 6 feet 6 inches).
Fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai managed to grow fan base during trial 23 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
Many netizens, after reading the live feed of trail proceedings of the Bo Xilai case, thought that Bo outperformed both his lawyers and the prosecutor, successfully presenting himself as a logical, el...
Trial live-broadcasting…with Chinese characteristics 22 Aug 2013 | 09:24 am
Unprecedentedly, authorities said there will be live coverage for today's trial of Bo Xilai, China's fallen politician who is charged with bribery, corruption and abuse of power. And this is what it l...
China’s crackdown on online rumors backfired: “Is an ideology clash coming?” 22 Aug 2013 | 03:19 am
Will the current crackdown on online rumors be the start of the end of a dynamic social media in China? Many netizens think it’s worse than that. From the Beijing arrest, they see a leftist movement c...
Bo Xilai and China’s Internet water army 21 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Any comments other than applause for Bo's conviction are censored out. Chinese netizens are astonished at the blatant use of Internet water army in Bo’s case: "They are as uniform as the military para...
“Who is Chengguan? A tough man?” Mike Tyson challenged China’s urban law enforcement officers 19 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
The first thing Mike Tyson did after joining China's Twitter Sina Weibo is to challenge the country's notorious and invincible chengguan officers. Chinese netizens bet that Tyson'd be killed in no tim...
Egypt’s bloody crackdown reminds Chinese netizens of Tiananmen, but opinions vary 15 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Netizen 共富传记 asked: “Western-style democracy failed to solve Egypt’s problem. How could it solve China’s problem? I don’t think it’d work.”
Why the huge influx of domestic tourists will hurt China’s ethnic harmony? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:36 am
Exploitative mass tourism, which is an important industry in regions known for ethnic tensions such as Tibet and Xinjiang (Uyghur), is creating some fundamental distrust between local people and pouri...
Will non-violent revenge become the new norm in China to fight social injustice? 12 Aug 2013 | 08:36 am
Three judges were sacked after a video clip of them seeking prostitutes were posted online by a whistleblower who has been following them for a year. Such non-violent sleuthing offers a new possibilit...
Advocacy ads to promote the Chinese dream bring back memories of the Cultural Revolution 8 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
"Chinese dream" ads that use Cultural Revolution era slogans disgust netizens: "The so-called Chinese dream means nothing but to put all Chinese people into ‘brain-washing’ mode.”
