China's New Credit Rating System Signals Gamification of Life
A high score under China's coming social credit rating system is an end in itself.
ASIA NEWS BITES: New Chinese Cyber Crackdown; Latest NK Missile Tests; Taipei Moves to Rebuff China’s Spies; Myanmar Turmoil
A quick roundup of the most important news from around the region.
China's Great Firewall Gives Rise to a Robust Industry of Information Smugglers
More often than not, information smugglers prioritize things like click rates over hard-hitting public interest journalism.
Airbrushing Taiwan’s History: Can Japanese Colonialism Ever Be Justified?
'Amazingly,' wrote Kaori Shoji, 'Taiwan is the one country where the Japanese imperialists managed to do more good than harm.'
Chinese Netizens Bombard Taiwanese President-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook Page
Chinese netizens organized a campaign to breach China’s Great Firewall on January 20. They did not just leave “anti-Taiwan independence” messages, but some also said they leap over the firewall occasionally because they care about the real world.