Chinese media gets fooled by things occasionally. Usually it’s satire that gets them, but recently, the Chinese edition of Global Times discovered it could embarrass itself in totally new and interesting ways. By mistaking DeviantArt for the real thing. ...

The information that follows was compiled by BJC editor-at-large RFH after a chat with the shadowy Tan Guan, whose position at Global Times is unknown. All views expressed below are to be... A certain article in a particular newspaper has caused some people on the Western Internet to debate so-called “virginity values." Yesterday, even the WSJ China editor chimed in on Sina Weibo: “How was a misogynistic ar ...

Amulet Mok, you cheeky bastard. If that is your real name! You ever have that very moment when every single cell of your body was aroused and your body was open for anything? Oh dear. ...

Describing it as a "popular Chinese daily newspaper," Xinhua has announced that the Global Times is now available in the US, in both English and Chinese. Take that, China Daily! The Global Times said the U.S. edition would provide readers with sharp reporting and perceptive analysis. It seeks to cover world events from a Chinese perspective, and introduce a dynamic, complex and changing China to the world i ...

Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin made his first trip to India recently, and apparently he was so impressed with what he saw that he granted a rare media interview. Pramit Pal Chaudhuri of the Hindustan Times, the lucky interviewer, called GT a "voice of ultranationalism" in the resulting article, and revealed that contrary to misconception, Global Times doesn't merely regurgitate government propaganda; ...

President Barack Obama has drawn basically positive reviews for his second inaugural address yesterday, but at least one person was not impressed. (Note: probably tens of millions were not impressed, but you can read the comments section to Hot Air and other sites devoted to the corpse of Ronald Reagan if you're interested.) We're talking about the wizard behind the curtains of Global Times, who penned this ...

The winners of the Global Times Tongue Twister Contest have been unveiled. Welcome to fame, guys and gals: ...

TAR Nation is on vacation (don't worry, not the forced kind), so leave it to the rest of us to call buncombe on Global Times. Its latest un-bylined editorial is about the Internet: ...

This paragraph is simply THE WORST. It comes from Global Times, of course, in a story headlined, "Foreign-run VPNs illegal in China: govt" (emphasis mine): Residents in China have found logging into their Facebook and Twitter accounts increasingly difficult in recent days, after several popular VPN (virtual private network) companies have alleged that China's Great Firewall (GFW) has been upgraded. However, ...

Despite censorship, the Chinese Internet is still capable of producing gem. On Sina Weibo, an Anhui-based user, @每周评论 wrote a short-lived post that identified the “10 Most Horrid People of 2012.” Hong Kong-based China Media Project tells us the post was deleted "sometime before 12:05 p.m. yesterday," but not before they were to extract and translate the list. Coming at No. 1: Sima Nan. But it's No. 9 -- Glo ...

We're not sure how long this poll is going to be up on Global Times's English website's main page -- it's not on the Chinese site -- but go vote while you can. I actually am curious to see the final results. Only question: What is "Other"? Maybe something like, "Classless, but in a societal vacuum, nothing but harmless and confidence-building fun; yet in the real world, likely to be misconstrued by a segmen ...

The latest Global Times column penned by an expat under a Chinese pseudonym is all about how to find a mate in the 'Jing. (Ed's note: Credit where it's due if it's actually a young Chinese writer, per comment; Yin Lu, you have our apologies.) It features lines such as, "If you see a beautiful girl wandering down the aisle of book shelves, ask her what she thinks of Mo Yan," and "Men, dress to kill, spend to ...

Want to be like the fellas above? The Global Times has launched a "Tongue Twister Contest for Foreigners," co-organized by Commercial Press and Chinese Universe. Those of foreign nationality are asked to submit videos of yourself saying Chinese tongue-twisters, which will then be judged from December 1 to 20. The top 20 will be selected for a "final vote," where "language experts" weigh in. The deadline to ...

We love ourselves a good zinger. Via China Digital Times's "NetEase News Calls Out Global Times," we're introduced to the image of the fleabane, which CDT explains is "known as qiangtoucao (墙头草) or 'wall-top grass' in Chinese. Qiangtoucao also means 'fence-sitter,' someone who bends to the prevailing political or social winds to stay rooted." Who could that possibly be applied to? ...

As plain as rain, our columnist TAR Nation kind of dislikes Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of Global Times. But let us sing the human qualities of Hu Xijin, for one minute. Let us acknowledge Hu Xijin's errors, while also acknowledging that to err is to be a child of God, which he is, and commensurately proud of it. Let us also not be so quick to forget that his publication is the one which gave us Alessandr ...

By Beijing Cream Let’s talk about journalism and the Olympics. No, not the complete indifference given to China’s 96 Paralympics gold medals, but a more familiar problem: plagiarism. A former senior journalist at the Global Times is probably still wondering what the hell hit her, after being caught lifting material and inventing quotes – including a fake interview with London mayor Boris Johnson – during la ...

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Jemimah Steinfeld, writing in Global Times, seems to think so. Let's jump straight to her conclusion: "The Netherlands were quickly knocked out of Euro 2012. They weren't the only losers. So long as women continue to strip to catch the attention of football players, we all are." What about people who enjoy masturbating to pictures of scantily clad women? Are they also losers? ...

Everyone enjoys an old-fashioned physical endurance challenge for the sake of a material prize... right? Not like this though, BMW. Not like this. There are two parts about this story, from Chengdu Business Daily via Global Times, that get me: Song Changjiang, 27, finally won the right to use a BMW car valued at 278,000 yuan ($43,618) for five years, by touching it for 87 hours at a real estate promotion ac ...

Here is the "editor's note" that precedes Yang Rui's first public defense of himself on English-language media: Yang Rui is the Managing Editor and Host of Dialogue on CCTV News, which endeavors to present news about China and the world from a Chinese perspective and in a balanced way. He is responding to an article posted May 18th on the website of Wall Street Journal, which was published without his knowl ...