so sorry: maulkorb für westerwelle in china

19 Jan 2010 1,131 Views
bei seinem antrittsbesuch in china wurde guido westerwelle untersagt, auf fragen der journalisten zu anworten. "gut choreografiert" waren die chinesischen pressekonferenzen zwar schon immer, doch war es ausländischen politikern bisher stets erlaubt, fragen von journalisten entgegenzunehmen. [caption id="attachment_1920" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="außenminister guido westerwelle in china"][/caption] der grund für den maulkorb liegt wohl ...

My Ordeal

8 Dez 2009 2,293 Views
In the early morning hours of Aug. 12, I was asleep in a hotel room in Sichuan when violent banging on my door abruptly awakened me. Roughly 30 policemen barged into my room and began pushing me. When I argued with them and asked for their ID, they beat me. ...

China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced

7 Dez 2009 2,173 Views
By Michael Wines, AI WEIWEI is perhaps China’s most famous living artist and its most vociferous domestic critic, titles of a sort this committed iconoclast disdains. Which is not a bad thing, considering that recently, he very nearly lost them both. Mr. Ai was in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, ...

It’s china.

16 Okt 2009 908 Views