Monthly Archives: February 2010

China Indicts Workers with Rio Tinto Mining Company in Bribery, Theft Case

February 10, 2010 11:25 AM

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

February 10, 2010 11:16 AM

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

February 10, 2010 11:04 AM

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

February 10, 2010 11:01 AM

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

February 10, 2010 10:58 AM

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

February 9, 2010 10:57 PM

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

February 9, 2010 10:25 PM

Rice fields in Yunnan, by eviltomthai

Video Satire: Hu Ge’s (胡戈) Animal World: The Apartment Dweller, Starring Han Han (韩寒)

February 9, 2010 10:19 PM

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

February 9, 2010 3:15 PM

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

February 9, 2010 2:36 PM

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

February 9, 2010 2:26 PM

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

February 9, 2010 12:24 PM

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

February 9, 2010 12:00 PM

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

February 9, 2010 11:33 AM

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

February 9, 2010 11:28 AM

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

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