At The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax Media’s departing China correspondent John Garnaut reflects on his work over the past six years. I came to China thinking I knew something about the place, having spent two years here...
Read MoreThe USC U.S.-China Institute has posted the video of a talk by John Garnaut, China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, in which he looks at whether or not China is becoming a Mafia State: John Garnaut is the...
Read MoreBeijing-based correspondent John Garnaut continues his reporting on the Fujin peasants rising up as their land is stolen and they are turned into serfs. From Theage.com: IT’S 15 years since the then Heilongjiang provincial governor decreed how his most ambitious agricultural project was to be evaluated. “The Touxing Project involves the credibility of the country […]
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald just published a profile of professor Qin Hui, a Tsinghua University economic historian and one of the country’s most important public intellectuals. The popular Western view that China will soon collapse under the weight of its political and economic contradictions is fantasy, and becoming more unrealistic by the day. The bigger […]
Read MoreBeijing based reporter John Garnaut has found out more interesting facts about the Dongnangang village land dispute issue, from theage.com: Land disputes between peasants and officials are one of the most common causes of conflict in China. This case is unusual because of the scale and brazen nature of the land appropriation, lacking any of […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: The road to China’s suburban dream is potted with the usual grievances. The bus to town is too crowded, the toll road too expensive, developers too dishonest. But the young families who were driven by Beijing’s sizzling property prices to buy at Grand Jade Garden, on the city’s eastern fringe […]
Read MoreThe Age looks at the destruction of historic Harbin: THE cluttered beauty of this old Harbin courtyard apartment compound exists only in a photograph. The homes burnt down four years ago, along with more than 30 residents, in a story that never made it past the city’s news censors. The offending coal stove was said […]
Read MoreFrom Sydney Morning Herald: In the fiscal debauchery of a modern Australian election campaign it can be hard to imagine that democracy causes governments to spend taxpayer money more wisely. But that’s because Australians have never known anything else. In China’s 800,000 villages, local officials spend 44 per cent of their budgets on themselves, including […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: For 25 years the Chinese economy was mainly controlled by smart, tough, reform-minded leaders who deftly managed the contradictions of capitalism and dictatorship. And it took that long for these leaders to painfully establish their credibility. How long would it take the current crop of leaders to squander this policy […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: The ageing cadres of revolutionary China are not happy that their country has progressed from being one of the worlds most egalitarian nations to one of the least, in just one generation. Income inequality in Communist China now outstrips that in libertarian America and kleptocratic Russia. The rich-poor gap is […]
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