Xinhua's English-language website launched something called "English Forum" yesterday, whereby registered netizens are "welcome to share your opinions about news from China and abroad, post new topics that you are interested in, and participate in all kinds of votings at the forum." Hopefully no one has any illusions that this will be anything other than a training ground for the 50 Cent Party, i.e. Interne ...

1. Come where? I don't understand. 2. ::shakes head slowly, pours whiskey, raises glass to salute Xinhua:: [Xinhua] (H/T Alicia) ...

Remember, folks: to err is human. And when you do err on official Chinese state media, like Xinhua editor Mo Hong'e, rest assured that BJC will be there to amplify the error and make fun of you. Here's Xinhua piece on "tilt-shit photos." I'm a little confused by the caption though: "Photo: xinhuanet.com." What does that mean? Did Xinhua take these pictures? Many of them are based in North America, like on a ...

Last Friday, the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a report called The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011. It was in response to the US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011, which featured information on about 200 countries, China included. China's report, published on Xinhua, et al., was about 8,000 words. We read it ...

Let's play a guessing game. What kind of website would host a series of pictures such as the above? Cracked.com? (Too classy, probably.) Bro Bible? Frat House Sports? Slingshot? Surely one of those sites with features like "The 50 Bustiest Girls on Facebook" and pop-up video ads. One of those sites in which a new tab opens with every click, leading you on a Möbius strip where dozens of pretty faces beg for ...

It's been about 15 hours since Xinhua released news of Bo Xilai's ouster from his Party posts -- released at just the time when no domestic media would be able to turn it around until the next morning, we should note (luckily, BJC keeps late hours). We've given the original Xinhua release another look, and two things stand out: 1. Bo Xilai is accused of "违纪" (wéijì), not "违法" (wéifǎ) -- "disciplinary violat ...