From Houston Chronical: Cai Aimin says he was busily handing out homemade leaflets on the streets, campaigning for a seat in his city’s legislature, when police officers swooped in and dragged him into an unmarked car. The platform outlined in his handbills called for exposing corrupt officials and protecting citizens from seizures of their property. […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: The last time U.S. Democrats dominated Congress, a dozen years ago, China was still recovering from the traumatic 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Although the economy was growing at an impressive rate, China was still a net exporter of oil, and Beijing authorities were diplomatic introverts on the international stage. […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press China is uneasily anticipating a bumpy road in relations with the United States now that the Democrats’ victory in midterm elections has placed one of Beijing’s most ardent critics in charge of the House of Representatives. Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi climbed the Democratic Party ranks in Congress savaging China for its human […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Time Warner Inc. has decided to pull out of the movie-theater business in China, citing frustration over changing government restrictions on foreign investors. The New York media company’s Warner Bros. International Cinemas division has only four joint-venture cinemas in the country, and the move doesn’t affect Warner’s growing Chinese-language film-production […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: IBM, the computer services company, has reportedly been named in court documents in China that have emerged from the corruption trial of a senior Chinese banker. Zhang Enzhao, former chairman of China Construction Bank, one of the country’s “big five” lenders, was jailed for 15 years last week after being convicted of […]
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