Last month’s deadly earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province may have generated political as well as geological seismic shocks that could ultimately present a “fundamental threat” to the ruling Communist party, analysts suggest.
“The rapid grass-roots response to the …
The Obama administration has for the first time explicitly blamed the Chinese military for launching cyber-attacks on the U.S government and various defense contractors.
The cyber-attacks are a “serious concern” as U.S. computer systems “continued to be targeted …
“A thriving underground social media network is challenging the Communist government’s grip on power and information in Cuba and beginning to bring change, a leading dissident said on Thursday,” Reuters reports:
“There is a network of clandestine information, the …
Technology is having a profound effect on interactions between democratic governments and the citizens they represent, making it easier for citizens to amplify their voices, organize themselves and hold governments to account. However, democratic institutions – governments, parliaments, …
Today’s digital revolutionaries must make a transition from protest to politics if they are to realize the emancipatory potential of liberation technology, say two leading advocates.
Observers and participants alike have described the recent Arab Spring as ‘leaderless’ —but …
Last December, U.N. member states at the World Conference on International Telecommunications approved a treaty that may open the door to an international organization regulating the Internet. The question of oversight of the Internet is increasingly important. More …
“After more than two weeks of sustained attack from China’s biggest state media outlets, Apple finally genuflected this week and issued a humble apology for its “perceived” arrogance and disregard for Chinese customers,” says a leading observer.
“The lesson was …
“Cuba’s best-known dissident, journalist Yoani Sanchez, received a hero’s welcome from the Cuban-American exile community in Miami, her latest stop in an 80-day tour of more than a dozen countries,” Reuters reports:
Unlike other dissidents, who have been received …
“Ten years after the ‘Black Spring’ arrest of 75 Cuban dissidents, some in the opposition perceive signs of greater openness while others see a regime that is merely changing tactics to improve its image,” AFP reports:“The …
Celebrated dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez plans to establish an independent digital newspaper upon her return to Cuba.
She expected to be subject to surveillance and harassment back in Cuba, but expressed the hope that her celebrity, which she called “a …