Monthly Archives: January 2010
Ronnie Chan: The West’s Preaching to the East Must Stop
Ronnie Chan, a Hong Kong based businessman and former head of Enron’s audit committee published an OP-ED on Financial Times: While the world deb
Minxin Pei: China’s Not a Superpower
The Diplomat has issued a special report called APAC 2020: A decade into ‘The Asian Century’ The Diplomat looks back over the past 10 year
$123,000,000,000,000
In Foreign Policy, Robert Fogel makes a prediction about the Chinese economy 30 years down the road: In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 tril
Fredrik Erixon and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama: Chinese Censorship Equals Protectionism
From Wall Street Journal:Beijing’s methods to censor the Internet are becoming ever more repressive. In recent weeks, at least 700 Web sites s
Chinese Academia Ghost-writing ‘Widespread’
From BBC News:More than $100m (£63m) changes hands in China every year for ghost-written academic papers, according to research by a Chinese univers
Chinese Envoy Objects to More Penalties for Iran
From the NYT: Imposing tougher sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program is a poor idea while diplomatic negotiations remain possible, Zhang Yesui, t
Cold Winter For Law Graduates
From China Daily: On the last day of 2009, Snow Li, a 24-year-old law school postgraduate student, arose at 7 am and went online to search for company
At Least 18 Die in China Coal Mine Fire
A fire in the Lisheng coal mine in Xiangtan, Hunan province, has killed at least 18 people: Seventy workers were underground when the fire started and
China Faces U.S. Piracy Lawsuit for Internet-Filtering Software
From Bloomberg:China was accused of piracy in a lawsuit filed by a California software maker, which said the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering progra
“It’s Time To Stop the Absurd Promotion of John Naisbitt’s ‘China’s Megatrends’,” (Updated with Photo)
On the Diane Rehm show, the host interviews John and Doris Naisbitt about their book, “China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society&
Here the Wheels of China’s Corruption Grind Exceedingly Fine
For the Sydney Morning Herald, John Garnaut looks at the flow of money in a county in Anhui, which he gives the fictitious name Benghai:A year ago I
Scribe Gets 16 Years in Mine Accident Coverup
A journalist has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for accepting bribes in the cover-up of a mining disaster in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Oly
Photo: Prayer tablets in the snow at a Confucian temple in Pingyao, by EmmaJG
Prayer tablets in the snow at a Confucian temple in Pingyao, by EmmaJG
Melamine Reprise: Who Knew What When?
Signs are now emerging that authorities may have been aware of the recent Shanghai Panda Dairy Co Ltd tainted milk scandal for up to eight months bef
Science Superpowers
On his New Yorker blog, Evan Osnos writes about the future of scientific achievement and why America is going to need to work hard to keep up with Chi
