From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: President Hu Jintao has redoubled efforts to crack down on dissent and other destabilizing forces despite the decreased frequency of large-scale anti-government riots after a spate of serious outbreaks last winter. In internal deliberations, both Hu and his predecessor, ex-president Jiang Zemin, have cited Chairman Mao Zedong‘ s classic […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring: China’s Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense(COSTIND) said it will begin issuing licenses to qualified companies on June 15, easing decades of tight state control over weapons-making in the world’s most populous nation. Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, reported that the new policy divides weapon creation and production into […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Pollution and consumption of water in China are growing so fast that more than 100 of the country’s biggest cities could soon be unable to quench the thirst of their populations, a cabinet minister warned yesterday. Qiu Baoxing, deputy minister of construction, said urgent action was needed to halt the deterioration of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua,via china.org.cn China’s charities receive little support from the business community with only one percent of domestic companies having ever made donations, according to a China Youth Development Foundation report released Monday. The report cited by the Beijing News Monday said that only 100, 000 of China’s 10 million registered companies have donated to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Hong Kong is unlikely to win more democracy from Beijing, despite promises by the man expected to be its next leader that he will usher in a new era of openness and strong governance, political analysts said on Monday. Backed by Chinese leaders, Donald Tsang is certain to clinch a two-year term as […]
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