The Olympics opening ceremony is being called “triumphant,” and “spectacular,” some commentators are questioning whether such a show was the best use of China’s limited resources. Thomas Boswell...
Read MoreJim Yardley of the New York Times is the latest to use the approach of the Olympics to look at prospects for political reform in China: …If the Olympics have presented unmistakable challenges and crises, the Communist...
Read MoreJim Yardley reports in the New York Times: China’s environmental regulators on Thursday unveiled stricter emergency pollution controls for the Olympic Games that would shutter more factories and expand traffic restrictions if...
Read MoreLawyer Teng Biao, who was whisked away in an unmarked car on Thursday evening, has been released. From Reuters: On Saturday afternoon, Beijing police released Teng after two days in detention that had already attracted intense...
Read MoreFrom AFP: China will invest more than 14 billion dollars to clean up its third-largest freshwater lake, which has been devastated by the unchecked waste from thousands of factories, state media said Friday. Over the next five years, east China’s Jiangsu province will spend 108.5 billion yuan (14.4 billion dollars) on improving the quality of […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Vice Premier Huang Ju, a reformer who helped guide China through a period of swift economic change, died in a Beijing hospital early Saturday after a long illness, the government announced. He was reported to be suffering from cancer and had largely disappeared from public view in the past year. Huang’s […]
Read MoreIn recent days, a number of Western media reports have exposed instances of industrial pollution in China. Here is another, from the Los Angeles Times, which focuses on how villagers are fighting back against environmental degradation: The tents are gone, the protesters have dispersed and the police have retreated to the shadows. But villagers remain […]
Read MoreFrom NPR: The Nanjing Bridge was once hailed as a triumph of Chinese engineering — the longest road and railway bridge in the world. Now it has a different type of notoriety: The span, which crosses the Yangste River in Nanjing, China, has become a popular suicide spot. The bridge is unbearably hot and noisy […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese court dismissed charges against a New York Times researcher Zhao Yan, 44, had been accused of telling the U.S. newspaper details of rivalry between Chinese President Hu Jintao and his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, over military appointments in 2004. [Click to see] See also China Gives Times Researcher 3 Years by Jim […]
Read MoreIt was announced today that Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley of the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for “for their ambitious stories on ragged justice in China as the booming nation’s legal system evolves.” The series can be found here. The Pulitzer announcement is here.
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