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Runfeng He has written one of the most comprehensive accounts ever undertaken of the ways the Chinese government has attempted to control Weibo, the micro-blogging site in China most akin to Twitter. According to official Chinese figures, Weibo reached an astonishing 331 million users in June 2013, but fell to 275 million a year later. Feng looks at several key questions about the popularity ...
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Feb 7, 2018 · The ideological contention also reflects the state has taken a firm standing on Weibo, and is able to steer public opinion, promoting discourses of nationalism and Weibo’s “positive” contribution to governance, but at the same time, it also sees Weibo as a major ideological threat to the legitimacy and stability of the regime, and takes further steps in cracking down contents and users ...
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- 2018
Mar 3, 2016 · The Jasmine Revolution [calls for peaceful pro-democracy protests across China] had just wound down. Not long after, in July, there was a high-speed rail crash in Wenzhou. A massive amount of ordinary users suddenly joined the discussion about this man-made disaster. The social impact Weibo abruptly generated caught the government off guard.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austinmade clear on Tuesday that an expansion of U.S.-Philippines defense cooperation was aimed at Beijing — without actually mentioning China. Ina press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique A. Manalo and the country’s Officer in Charge of the Defense Department C...
China’s People’s Liberation Army on Monday completed the three days of military exercises around Taiwan aimed to express anger over the island’s President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthylast week. The exercises communicated Beijing’s readiness to “resolutely crush separatist attempts for ‘Taiwan independence’ and foreign in...
The ‘rift is there’: China vs. the world on global debt China is catching up to the Western-dominated International Monetary Fund and World Bank and is exceeding other governments as the largest official lender to wide swaths of the developing world. But the geopolitical power struggle between the U.S. and China is inflicting collateral damage on t...
— BLINKEN: CHINA TRIP REQUIRES ‘RIGHT CONDITIONS’: Blinken is keeping us guessing on when he — or Beijing — might reschedule his China trip derailed by the Chinesespy balloon incident in February. “When it comes to my own visit to China — when the conditions are right, I’ll certainly look forward to pursuing that,” Blinkentold reporters on Tuesday....
GERMAN FM HEADS TO CHINA: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is traveling to Beijing today, where she’s set to stayuntil Saturday. Why it matters: She’s just the latest in a string of foreign officials visiting Beijing, but her trip is crucial as Germany recalibrates its China strategy. Berlin pushed for more trade with China under former Ch...
— TAIWAN BEAR BASHES XI JINPING POOH: Images of a patch on a Taiwanese airman’s flight suit depicting a cartoonish Taiwanese black bear punching Winnie the Pooh have gone viral on the self-governing island. Chinese bloggers made Winnie the Pooh a playful online representation of Xi Jinping until censors caught on andbanned Pooh’s image on the Chine...
— PROPAGANDA, CENSORSHIP AND SASS — WEIBO UNPACKED: The headlines are irresistible: “Slip of the Tongue: Biden Accidentally Says He ‘Applauds China,’” “TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Hailed as Asian ‘Solitary Hero’ on Chinese Social Media” and “Video Shows Real-Time ‘Departure’ Information Board at Chinese Crematorium.” Welcome to What’s on Weibo, a weekl...
DAVID SATTERFIELD, former assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Trump administration, spoke to China Watcher about the “transactional” nature of China’s role in brokering a recentconflict-mitigation deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Satterfield says that concerns the deal harms the U.S. standing in the region are “emotional...
— SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT YOON’S CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will address a joint session of Congress on April 27. House Foreign Affairs Committee chair McCaul and Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) formally invited Yoon to speak to Congress on April 5, Kim said in astatement last week.
The Book: Defeating the Dictators: How democracy can prevail in the age of the strongman The Author: Charles Dunstis the deputy director of research and analytics at The Asia Group and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. What is the most important takeaway from ...
Oct 29, 2020 · Weibo’s political impacts are mainly manifested in three aspects: e-governance, public opinion formation, and democracy. E-governance refers to ‘the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for delivering government services and exchanging information between the government and citizens’ (Zhang & Guo, 2019).
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- 2020
Apr 25, 2021 · The paper is an assessment of Philippine political development for over three (3) decades after the fall of Marcos authoritarian rule and the dawn of democratic regimes. Against the backdrop of conceptual and discussion of political development, Philippine political development was examined based on its recent past.
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