Some 500 international business and political leaders, academics and journalists are converging on the Grand Hyatt hotel in Beijing today. This is the World Economic Forum’s China Business Summit 2004. This conference is blogged both on the The World Economic Forum Weblog and also on Fons’ China Herald.
Read MoreBecause of China’s growing importance and sophistication as a market for technology, especially telecommunications and the Internet, there is a rapid growing trend of international companies have research labs in China. An official from China’s Ministry of Commerce recently stated publicly that the country had as many as 600 and was adding 200 a year. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: “China Unicom, the nation’s second-largest mobile phone carrier, plans to open up to 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, state media said. This appears to be part of government plans to tighten controls over the Internet, which currently has close to 90 million users in China, by giving just a […]
Read MoreAlso on today’s Financial Times, Minxin Pei, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had a very good commentary piece on the recent diplomatic moves from Beijing. You need to register the FT site in order to read the whole article. Here are some of Dr. Pei’s main points: “……in recent months, […]
Read MoreFinancial Times had an article today called “China’s Hu Jintao tightens his grip on power.” “Nearly two years after he attained the top position in China’s ruling Communist party, President Hu Jintao has consolidated his power through a combination of manoeuvring and compromise with his predecessor and rival Jiang Zemin, several people within the party […]
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