Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Activist Tan Zuoren, who had been investigating the deaths of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being tried in August. From AP:Attorney Pu Zhiqiang said activist Tan Zuoren was convicted of the charge Tuesday by the Chengdu Intermediate Court. Tan’s trial in August had concluded with [...] Read more »
The first Chinese census on pollution has revealed that fertilizers and pesticides, and not smokestacks, are the country’s biggest sources of water pollution. From The Guardian:Senior officials said the disclosure, after a two-year study involving 570,000 people, would require a partial realignment of environmental policy from smoke stacks to chicken coops, cow sheds and fruit [...] Read more »
Lawyer Li Zhuang has had his sentence reduced to one and a half years on appeal. From AP:The lawyer for an alleged mob boss in southwest China was given a reduced 1 1/2-year prison term Tuesday during his appeal on charges that he helped his client falsely claim torture by police during interrogation, the court [...] Read more »
As CDT posted earlier, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from the China Investment Corp details $9.63 billion of equity holdings in U.S. listed companies and funds. Reuters reports on the numbers:Among U.S. holdings, CIC declared a stake of $1.77 billion in Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and a previously unannounced $713.8 million holding [...] Read more »
The Telegraph follows up on the Xinhua interview with a local police chief about the use of informants in police work:Experts said the number of spies in China’s major cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, and in more restive regions, such as Tibet and Xinjiang, was likely to be far higher. The number of spies [...] Read more »
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal looks at quality control in China and the lessons regulators there could learn from Japan’s experience:China’s quality challenge has at times been compared to Japan’s efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to transcend a bad reputation for manufacturing low-quality goods. At that time Japan also suffered tragic [...] Read more »
Popular blogger Han Han comments on the Fifty Cent Party; chinaSMACK translates:I have a different reading of the Fifty Cent Party. First, I feel we should permit the Fifty Cent Party to exist; everyone has the right to hire someone else to speak for them and those hired have the right to speak anywhere they [...] Read more »
Reuters reports on the China Investment Corp, the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund:Lou Jiwei, the chairman of CIC, said the fund would steadily accelerate its overseas investments in 2010, the China Securities Journal reported, citing an article he published on Monday. It did not say where the article appeared. “As of now, most of CIC’s [...] Read more »
Al Jazeera reports on the proposed ban on eating dog meat: The Chinese government is considering taking meat from pet animals off menus across the country, raising concerns among dog farmers who have relied on the industry for generations. The draft proposal to ban dog and cat meat has drawn an angry outcry from regions where the [...] Read more »
The Los Angeles Times reports on the sentencing of a Chinese-born aerospace engineer who worked in Southern California on charges of spying for China:U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in Santa Ana imposed a 188-month prison term on Dongfan “Greg” Chung, 73, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Orange. Carney declared that he could not [...] Read more »
Writer Liu Xiaobo, one of the drafters of Charter 08, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on December 25, Christmas Day. On December 23, the day he was tried, Liu Xiaobo wrote a “final statement” which is being widely passed around online. CDT thanks David Kelly, Professor of China Studies, China Research Centre, University [...] Read more »
From the South China Morning Post, (registration required): In a bid to raise China’s voice on the world stage and compete with Western media, Beijing is planning to assign an elite team of 100 specially trained journalists to the staff of leading state-run media outlets. Under a programme that began last year, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the [...] Read more »
From the Atlantic Magazine: Fred Chang has a theory about how hackers affiliated with the Chinese government hacked into Google and at least two dozen other major American companies. Chang is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas — so we should listen to him. But he is also the former director [...] Read more »
Investigators are searching for 100 tons of milk that’s been tainted with melamine and remains on grocery shelves. From BBC:Two dairies were shut down at the weekend after they were found to be selling products using the powder, which should have been destroyed. The melamine had been added to milk to artificially boost protein levels. China Daily [...] Read more »
Caixin, Hu Shuli’s new publication, has produced an English-language page compiling information about the trial of lawyer Li Zhuang. From one article on the site:Li Zhuang, known as the lawyer formerly representing an alleged Chongqing gang leader, shocked court observers in the capitulation of his first sentence appeal. On February 2, Li stated to the judge [...] Read more »
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