U.S. barred from limiting textile imports from China
According to the AP: “The Bush administration is being temporarily barred from imposing new limits on imported clothing and textile products flowing into the United States from China.”
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Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Spokesmen still silent as press get greater access
Despite recent promises that government offices would be made more accessible to the media, the South China Morning Post has found that in practice it is still as difficult as ever to talk to officials in China. After calling a list of spokespeople provided to media by the State Council Information Office, almost none of […]
Read MoreChina to win stake in Russia’s Yukos oil company
Russian officials announced that Chinese National Petroleum Company could take a 20% stake in a key subsidiary of Russia’s embattled Yukos oil company. Yuganskneftegas was recently purchased by the state-owned Rosneft, which is planned to merge with Gazprom. Yukos’ chief, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested on corruption charges last year. See reports in the New York […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily: Chinese people enjoy better life after 3 years in WTO
The People’s Daily has published a report lauding improvements to citizens’ lives since the country joined the World Trade Organization three years ago: “According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), there are 250 million urban employees in China, 25 million of whom work for foreign-funded companies. The jobs of 80 million Chinese are […]
Read MoreOnly 53% of mainlanders able to speak Putonghua
According to a new survey by the State Working Committee of Chinese Language, only 53 percent of Chinese are able to communicate in Mandarin, or Putonghua. The survey results were reported by the South China Morning Post and by China Daily. According to the China Daily report, via Sohu: “Only 18 per cent of those […]
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