http://chinadigitaltimes.net Covering China From Cyberspace Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:35:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After the government granted permission to parents of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake to have another child, many such families are trying to do just that. From the Wall Street Journal: In Sichuan, there is some evidence of recovery. Six months after the earthquake, schools are being rebuilt. And ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/after-quake-parents-in-china-start-over/ New regulations require Internet cafes in Jiangxi Province to install Chinese-developed operating systems on their computers. From AP: The new rules went into effect on November 5 and are aimed at cracking down on pirated software, said Hu Shenghua, a spokesman for the culture bureau in the city of Nanchang, Jiangxi ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/new-fears-over-cyber-snooping-in-china/ The Guardian takes a look at the increasingly grim job market for recent graduates in China: More than 6 million Chinese students left university this year and up to a quarter are still struggling to find work. As the global slowdown bites, students such as Su know it can only get ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/millions-of-chinese-graduates-out-of-work-after-fivefold-rise-in-university-places/ The New York Times reports that top Chinese financial officials are exhorting their U.S. counterparts to reform along no such ambiguous lines during the Strategic Economic Dialogue in Beijing.  China's central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, said: [caption id="attachment_29179" align="alignright" width="300" caption="U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson here with President Hu Jintao"][/caption] ''The important ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/china-admonishes-us-economic-envoy/ This is a continuation of the series on CDT relating to relevant China issues in 2008. The next article deals with Chinese Nationalism and Internet Culture: Chinese nationalism was a hot topic this year, quite the opposite of the usual criticism directed at China, whether it be her food safety ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/china-2008-nationalism-internet-culture-and-identity/ Over the next week, CDT will post a series of topic pages on relevant issues facing China. The first, below, is on China's relations with the developing world: One of the most interesting developments in China's foreign policy in the last 5-10 years has been China's increasing involvement in the developing ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/china-and-the-developing-world/ A child in an alleyway, Guilin, by Thomas Baltes http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/photo-a-child-in-an-alleyway-guilin-by-thomas-baltes/ Where Are Chinese Internet Police Being Trained? This inetcop.com.cn website has the answer. The following is from the Xiamen Meiah Pico IT CO., Ltd. website, translated by CDT's Lucy Lin: On July 30, 2004, the Ministry of Public Security formally passed and authorized the establishment of a "National Internet Police Training ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/where-are-internet-police-being-trained-tr/ China has released a list of the fifteen most influential foreigners in the last three decades, according to a state-run report.  The International Talent Monthly, a periodical owned by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, published the report in anticipation of China celebrating 30 years of reform later this month. ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/the-15-most-influential-foreigners-to-china/ Chinese health authorities marked World AIDS Day on Sunday, November 30 by unveiling a giant red ribbon in a ceremony at the Olympic Bird's Nest Stadium.  The ribbon at the stadium is symbolic of China's pledge to work with the U.N. AIDS agency to combat discrimination against people with HIV ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/activists-and-awareness-still-constrained-as-china-vows-to-fight-aids-discrimination/ In the International Herald Tribune, Richard Bernstein writes about executed accused spy Wo Weihan, Guantanamo Bay, and China's human rights record: China's human rights record remains abysmal, but one price paid by the United States as it tries to bring pressure on Beijing is that some of the very things that ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/guantanamo-and-china-a-shared-legal-dead-zone/ James Fallows interviewed Gao Xiqing, president of the China Investment Corporation in the Atlantic Monthly: Americans know that China has financed much of their nation’s public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agreed on the peril of borrowing so heavily from this one ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/%e2%80%9cbe-nice-to-the-countries-that-lend-you-money%e2%80%9d/ USA Today is the latest to report on the wave of unrest that has hit China in the wake of the global financial crisis: The "recent mass incidents are the biggest political test the ruling party has faced since the 1989 incident" at Tiananmen Square, says Mao Shoulong, professor of public ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/factory-closures-layoffs-stir-unrest-in-china/ The New York Times is reporting China's reluctance to invest in the foreign financial sector given the heavy losses on recent investments in Blackstone Group, Barclays and Morgan Stanley. Lou Jiwei, chairman and chief executive of the China Investment Corporation, gave the clearest reasons for future intentions. “Right now we ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/china-to-shun-west%e2%80%99s-finance-sector/ Due to the tainted milk scandal, the Chinese dairy industry is suffering with exports falling an incredible 92% from October 2007 to October 2008.  Currently, over 850 children are in hospital, 154 of them still in serious condition. The Taipei Times charged that the Chinese government "often deliberately releases information piecemeal ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/melamine-scandal-continues/ From the Asia Times Online: In the past several weeks, two Congressional Commissions - the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) - have submitted reports on China that are likely to serve as indicators of what we may expect from an Barack Obama ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/benjamin-a-shobert-obamas-collision-course-with-china/ From Reuters: A labour dispute at Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet Co Ltd (000060.SZ: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), China's third-largest zinc producer, has been resolved and has not affected output, company officials said on Tuesday. "There was no impact on output," an executive at Shaoguan Smelter, the state-run company's only smelter ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/china-zhongjin-leadzinc-output-not-hit-by-dispute-with-photos/ As the financial crisis raises concerns about the impact of rising unemployment in China, Danwei summarizes a story in the Chongqing Evening News about a group of migrant workers who were laid off after the boss of their factory in Dongguan, Guangdong, disappeared. So they headed back home to Chongqing, ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/migrant-workers-trek-back-to-sichuan/ The International Herald Tribune writes a feature on how the Chinese government may need to convince individuals to open their pockets up to spending. Many parts of Asia have high savings rates, but the Chinese "propensity to save is rooted in deep-seated memories of scarcity and a tattered ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/chinas-economy-in-need-of-jump-start-waits-for-citizens-fists-to-loosen/ In the Globe and Mail, Zhiwu Chen, professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, asks why the Chinese government is investing the stimulus package in major infrastructure projects and not on social programs: In China, the government is not elected, so winning more votes is not part of the ... http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/12/zhiwu-chen-building-a-nation-demands-more-than-steel-and-concrete/