On November 23, after 15 years and more than $13 million in production costs, Guns N' Roses finally released its long-anticipated album Chinese Democracy. Many a commentator would remark that the world would see actual democracy in China before it would ever see Chinese Democracy. The story of Chinese Democracy is interesting because the controversy surrounding it has made the music largely irrelevant. But at the same time, Guns N' Roses is providing more than just music -- it is providing a backstory. And this is the sort of value-added experience that could help rescue a struggling music industry that has trouble demonstrating its worth to a buying public that has less and less interest in brand loyalty.
In an opinion piece in Wednesday's Asian Wall Street Journal, U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr. argues that the current generation of Chinese students in American universities is not just good news for the U.S. economy, but a boon for the U.S.-China bilateral relationship. Exposed to American values such as transparency, tolerance, diversity and democracy, returning students will eventually help shape and modernize the future government in Beijing. Mr. Huntsman is correct that American values still have wide, if not universal, appeal. But we cannot ignore the apparent paradox that the young and urbane in China have become the strongest supporters of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the most strident critics of America.
Originally signed by 303 prominent Chinese citizens inside and outside of government, Charter 08 was released on December 10, 2008. The name refers to Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 human rights manifesto. The excerpt below was translated by Perry Unk, and originally appeared in the New York Review of Books. Update: The Asia Sentinel reponed that the Chinese Ministry of Propaganda has banned any mention of the Charter or interviews with any Charter 08 signatory. Many signatories have been interrogated or faced police harassment JJu Xiaobo, an original Charter 08 signatory, prominent dissident writer, and former President and current Board member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, was detained by police on December 8, 2008. He was charged on June 23, 2009 with "inciting subversion of st...
HONG KONG - Frustrated by an indifferent public, some of Hong Kong's democracy activists are preparing to take a political risk. Two pro-democracy parties say five of their members will resign from the legislature next month to force special elections for their seats. They hope to turn the vote into a referendum on their cause and put fresh pressure on Beijing to allow electoral reform. But it could backfire: Given the current public mood, they well could lose.
India is supplying arms to Burma's military junta to counter China's influence in the neighboring country, but pro-democracy activists fear the junta will use the weapons to suppress opposition and resist democratization. Though New Delhi says the Indian arms are meant for use by the Burmese army only against northeast Indian rebels who have jungle bases on Burma's side of the border, Burmese democracy activists are concerned that ethnic minorities and pro-democracy activists will be the targets.
BEIJING - Imprisoned Chinese democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize - an award that drew furious condemnation from the authoritarian government and calls from world leaders including President Obama for Liu's quick release. Chinese state media blacked out the news and Chinese government censors blocked Nobel Prize reports, which highlighted Liu's calls for peaceful political change, from Internet websites. China declared the decision would harm its relations with Norway and promptly summoned Oslo's ambassador to Beijing to make a formal protest.
Milestones, milestones: We elected a black president this year, and Axl Rose, after 17 years of foot-dragging, finally decided to release Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy." What a country! Donate to the Steven Adler Rehabilitation Fund - The band's original drummer has recently relapsed into drugs - and his spokesman says he's still hanging onto the dream of a reunion.
Marzo representa el clímax de la primera mitad del año en cuanto a nueva música. Después de más de una década de espera, el día 6 los Guns N' Roses lanzarán Chinese Democracy, "el disco más largo y más caro de la historia", como lo definió Axl Rose, aludiendo al enorme "periodo de inactividad" que tuvo la banda desde The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) hasta el presente. Todavía en el estudio trabajando, los Guns aseguran que la placa estará felizmente en las vitrinas en la fecha pautada, mientras la expectativa mundial por este nuevo trabajo de la legendaria banda crece a pasos gigantes. En el renglón latino, el martes próximo al menos cuatro producciones están listas para salir al mercado. En el renglón pop, Pepe Aguilar estrenará un álbum grabado en vivo. El reggaetonero Tito 'El Bambino'...
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