Monthly Archives: April 2011
Tweets from Ai Weiwei: “Are You a Human Being if You Are Not ‘Anti-China’?”
A Chinese blog called Love Ai Weiwei has posted translations of a series of tweets posted by Ai Weiwei between June 2009 and July 2010: 艾未未微博选登（2009.6—2010.7）Ai Weiwei（ @aiww ） Tw.
Geremie R. Barmé: A View on Ai Weiwei’s Exit
For China Beat, Geremie Barmé reflects on Ai Weiwei’s role as an artist and critic, and ponders the reaction from the Chinese government and from
Outsourced Emissions Cancel Developed Countries’ Carbon Cuts
New research shows that Kyoto emission reductions by developing countries evaporate when outsourced manufacturing is factored in, with China hosting three
China Taking Lead Ahead of US on Clean Energy, Sen. Reid Says
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid returned from a week-long visit to China with nine other Senators. Reid seemed very impressed with what he witnessed
Taiwan Opposition Selects Presidential Candidate
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan have announced the selection of Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen as their opposition candidate to current President
Always Awkward, New Rights Talks With China Now May Be Hopeless
Michael Posner, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, is in Beijing for meetings with Chinese officials, which
Trump: Don’t Buy Chinese-Made Goods, Except Mine
Reality TV star Donald Trump has urged Americans to buy less “crap” from China. Salon’s Justin Elliott wonders whether that includes
Meet the Dalai Lama’s Harvard-Educated Replacement
Harvard academic Lobsang Sangay has been elected to become the new Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile. From the Atlantic: Exiled Tibetans elected
Noam Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail?
A recent editorial by the assistant president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations noted that “the US has played the leading
Special Report: Does Corporate America Kowtow to China?
Small and medium sized American factories are already losing out to China in a big way. A new Reuters article asks a intriguing question: How should America
Global Trade: “Everyone’s Afraid of China”
Two recent articles describe different points of friction between China and the global trade system: Beijing’s foot-dragging in complying with current
Learning to Live With Corruption
At Forbes, Shaun Rein argues that change must come from within: What resulted when Google publicly shamed the Chinese government? Greater mistrust of
Groupon in China Not an Unqualified Success
Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn writes for TechCrunch on a Global Mobile Internet Conference session in which Groupon’s invasion of China became a
China’s Economy to Surpass that of US by 2016: IMF
The latest prediction by the International Monetary Fund is that China’s GDP is expected to surpass the GDP of America by the year 2016. From the
