Month: November 2012

  • China Daily posts 10 names, then replaces with top two alone

    Screenshots taken over a period of about 20 minutes between 1:47 p.m. and 2:08 p.m. from Beijing. First, the site postsed ten names as members of the 18th Central Committee. Then it was just two. meanwhile at People’s Daily’s Chinese site, it was only two. Meanwhile, China.org.cn still has all ten as of 2:14.


  • Full Chinese text of Hu Jintao's report to the 18th Party Congress

    Yesterday I had trouble finding a transcript of Hu’s speech, but it apparently emerged over night. For safe keeping, here is a copy, in Chinese, of Hu’s full speech, as taken directly from Caixin. An English version is not yet available to my knowledge; please write me if you find one. (UPDATE: the text was…