From China Law Blog: U.S. public television (PBS) will be airing a four-part documentary beginning on Wednesday, January 10, entitled “China from the Inside”. According to the TV Squad Blog, it will delve into both China’s history and its current political landscape and will, among other things, examine China’s treatment of women, its problems with […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland’s Net under Beijing’s thumb. But technology may foil the censors yet… Skype had a dilemma. The Internet telephony and messaging service wanted to enter China with TOM Online, a Beijing company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Li’s people told their […]
Read MoreFrom China Law Blog Great guest commentary in today’s Wall Street Journal by Thomas Hout, a senior adviser at Boston Consulting Group‘s Hong Kong office. It is entitled, “Innovation, China Style,” and it effectively gives lie to those who believe China will eventually “take over the world.” According to Mr. Hout, China is having considerable […]
Read MoreFrom Boston Globe: One of the world’s oldest nations is getting older. China’s population of 1.3 billion is graying rapidly and the country, which now has about 146 million senior citizens, will have almost 290 million by 2025 — nearly the entire population of the United States — according to a study released last month […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A Chinese government spokesman has accused Taiwan’s president of trying to ruin ties with the mainland. President Chen Shui-bian, whose party favours Taiwanese independence, used his New Year speech to insist that the island was not part of China. But a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing hit back, saying […]
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