Wang Zhicheng

Hundreds of millions of followers access information and debates on government failures, corruption, social issues and democracy. Most famous bloggers include leading figures in industry and finance. The Party demands obedience of seven rules, including "support for the socialist system."

Talking over dinner about democracy and the rule of law has become a crime in the PRC. Li Huaping and Liu Jincai are among the 50 and more activists taken into custody in recent months. For China's rulers, Russia in the 1990s and today's Egypt are bad examples, not to follow.

Xinhua states: "He threatened the central power." Bo is accused of having confiscated more than 20 million yuan. Silence on his responsibility in covering up the murder of British citizen Heywood, poisoned by Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai. The trial set for mid-August in Jinan (Shandong). But the judges have "disappeared" and the defense lawyers are not allowed to meet with their client.

Xu, 40, a University professor of law founded Gongmeng a non-violent movement in favor of Chinese Constitution and law. Dozens of activists arrested for denouncing Party corruption. Beijing, claims it is "an attempt to subvert state power."

The National Bureau of Statistics says that the indices "are within the preset objectives." But economists and institutions are pushing for a change in the economic model, based on the exploitation of cheap labor, and on exports. The real estate bubble reaches bursting point.

The Mothers of Tiananmen are not allowed to honour the memory of their killed children. Hong Kong journalists are stopped in the square. Hu Jia is threatened as a "security risks." Words and images of candles that refer to the day of the massacre are censored online. In Hong Kong, more than 100,000 people are expected in tonight's vigil.

The great statesman, a victim of the purges that followed the massacre, points out that the corruption and lawlessness that dominate the country are the direct result of a gag placed on the population and the media which lasts from 1989 to today. Xi Jinping is likely to betray his father, the reformer Xi Zhongxun, after the past months’ increase in ideological control: return to exaltation of Mao and Deng’s economic reforms, but no mention of political reform.

June 4 marks the 24th anniversary of the massacre. Dozens of activists isolated in their own homes or sequestered. In Jinan (Shandong), police block a birthday party and arrest participants on charges of "illegal gathering". The Mothers of Tiananmen accuse Xi Jinping of wanting to return to worst "Maoist orthodoxy."

The ceremony was attended by government authorities,100 priests and 2 thousand people. Archbishop Savio Hon, Secretary of Propaganda Fide, a personal friend of Msgr. Jin, remembers the deceased bishop and bishop Ma Daqin, under house arrest. Condolences also from Card. John Tong. Absence of bishop for feast of Our Lady of Sheshan, on May 24th.

More than 1,000 faithful and 60 priests take part in the liturgy held in the cathedral. Celebrated by a priest. The successor bishop, Msgr. Ma Daqin was prevented from participating. After months of isolation in Sheshan, he was transferred to Beijing for "studies". For the Holy See he is the successor of Mgr. Jin. May 2, there will be civil funeral.

Msgr. Aloysius Jin Luxian, official bishop of Shanghai, has died

Lawyers and activists take to the streets with banners and launch online petitions asking that all the members of the Central Committee release a list of their wealth, something that Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping had already requested. Police detain activists for "disrupting the public order." But the problem of corruption in the Party remains.