In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

  • The American Scholar – The censor in the mirror
    It’s not only what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do to their own work …

  • Reuters – Jailed Chinese dissident's health said to be poor
    The health of a jailed Buddhist Chinese dissident outspoken on Tibet and other sensitive topics is poor and he is not being allowed to communicate freely with his family, according to a source who met him recently …

  • Radio Free Asia – Banned writer sheds light on Tibet
    Tibet's best-known female writer has evolved from a member of China's privileged elite into a forceful critic. Despite the loss of her job, the closure of her blogs, and constant police surveillance, Woeser reveals through her poems the courage to speak out …

  • Telegraph – China bans Western religious music
    Musicians and tour organisers have told The Daily Telegraph that a series of significant performances have been affected amid a tightening of political control over the arts and Christianity …

  • Reuters – China milk victim lawyers say press to quit
    Chinese lawyers seeking redress for infant victims of toxic milk say they are facing growing official pressure to abandon the efforts, blaming growing government sensitivity over the health scandal …

  • Radio Free Asia – Dozens detained in milk scandal
    Anxious parents flood hospitals, vowing to fight for redress, while lawyers and rights activists warn that domestic media face curbs in reporting on the widening tainted milk crisis …

  • Huffington Post – China's deadly investments
    Tomorrow, China assumes the Presidency of the U.N. Security Council, a position that it last held in July 2007 when it led the authorization of a U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur …

  • The Daily News – How China has created a new slave empire in Africa
    I think I am probably going to die any minute now. An inflamed, deceived mob of about 50 desperate men are crowding round the car, some trying to turn it over, others beating at it with large rocks, all yelling insults and curses …

  • BBC – Olympic protest case thrown out
    A protester who tried to extinguish the Olympic torch on its procession through London has walked free from court …

  • The Australian – Unease grows at the rise of China
    China’s growing global dominance and its burgeoning investment stake in local companies are generating growing unease among ordinary Australians …