Monthly Archives: February 2010
China Indicts Workers with Rio Tinto Mining Company in Bribery, Theft Case
From the LA Times: China has indicted four employees of the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto for alleged bribery and theft of commercial secr
Guangzhou Battles Bad Air Quality Ahead of Asian Games
The Asian Games will be held in Guangzhou November 12-17, and local officials are already concerned about improving air quality: The Guangdong provin
Yang Jiechi: Building Sino-European Ties to a Much Higher Tier
Yang Jiechi is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of PRC. From the People’s Daily: In the eyes of the Chinese, France is a country with a rich inte
UK Businesses Threaten to Pull Out of China Over Protectionism
From the Daily Telegraph, by Malcolm Moore in Shanghai and Peter Foster in Beijing: Faced with regulations that are often impossible to meet and a cli
Ai Weiwei: Google Gives Us Hope
Chinese artists and blogger Ai Weiwei has written an article for the Wall Street Journal on Google and censorship in China: China may have become the
Nanjing by the Numbers
In Foreign Policy, Kate Merkel-Hess and Jeffrey Wasserstrom write about a new joint report from the governments of China and Japan about the Nanjing M
Photo: Rice fields in Yunnan, by eviltomthai
Rice fields in Yunnan, by eviltomthai
Video Satire: Hu Ge’s (胡戈) Animal World: The Apartment Dweller, Starring Han Han (韩寒)
Satirist Hu Ge?producer of hugely popular videos mocking CCTV and filmmaker Chen Kaige, has struck again with another viral hit. This one, a critique
Kelley Currie: What Bearing Witness Means: Liu Xiaobo Edition
From the Weekly Standard: On Christmas Day 2009, the Chinese regime sentenced writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for “incitem
China’s Year of the (Endangered) Tiger
Illegal hunting and habitat loss has reduced the number of wild tigers in China to fewer than 50. From The Star:China ushers in the Year of the Tige
Chinese Farms Cause More Pollution than Factories, Says Official Survey
The first Chinese census on pollution has revealed that fertilizers and pesticides, and not smokestacks, are the country’s biggest sources of wa
Lawyer in China Mob Trial Gets 1 1/2 Years on Appeal
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 g
China’s CIC Gives Breakdown of U.S. Equity Stakes
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 holdin
Chinese Police Admit Enormous Number of Spies
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 spi
Paul Midler: Why China Keeps Poisoning the Milk
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal looks at quality control in China and the lessons regulators there could learn from Japan’s experien
