Three on China

Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:20:00 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
Alibaba Is the Canary in China's Coal Mine
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/alibaba-is-the-canary-in-china-s-coal-mine>

"Alibaba's shares slide with each new report of middle-class Chinese who are
dumping apartments to raise cash, delaying weddings, canceling vacations,
terminating automobile orders and cutting up credit cards."


China Forces Developers Of Great Wall Circumvention Tools To Delete Their
Software
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150828/17155232098/china-forces-developers-great-wall-circumvention-tools-to-delete-their-software.shtml>

"Danny O'Brien, over at the EFF's Deeplinks blog, has the story of how it
appears China is pressuring the developers of tools for circumventing the Great
Firewall of China to shut down their repositories and no longer offer the
code."


The case of Wang Yu, emblem of China's human rights crackdown
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/the-case-of-wang-yu-emblem-of-chinas-human-rights-crackdown>

"Lawyer’s detention seen as opening salvo in unprecedented clampdown on China’s
human rights attorneys"


Cheers,
    *** Xanni ***

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