ABC News profiles Yu Qun, the mayor of Baoding, Hebei, who is aiming to make his city a center for renewable energy: Baoding is an ancient city, but its outskirts have an unsettled feel. Between serried ranks of high-rise...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Quarterly (Autumn 2007): Although China and the United States do not rely on one another for energy supplies, energy security has ironically become a necessary agenda item in Chinese-U.S. relations. As the...
Read MoreChina Daily carried Xinhua’s report on the relationship between China and Japan and says that “more and more Chinese and Japanese have positive views on relations between the two countries with the improvement in bilateral ties, according to a joint survey by the two sides.” …More than 60 percent of the Chinese and Japanese polled […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, hosting its first major energy summit on Saturday, urged top oil consumers to join together in the face of resurgent producer power and sought to paper over differences on how best to achieve energy security. Ministers from the United States, India, Japan and South Korea — nations that consume nearly half the […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Russia will give priority to China in supplying oil through a planned Siberian pipeline as the two countries build up energy cooperation, Premier Wen Jiabao said. Wen appeared to be trying to put a positive spin on Russia’s choice of a competing Japanese plan that would have the pipeline run to the […]
Read MoreWhile China’s athletes won glory in Paris at this year’s Olympics and Paralympics, there was widespread agreement on Chinese social media that the country’s reporters did not. Bloggers and athletes alike rolled...
Read MoreToday’s CDT Quote of the Day is a response to the recent tide of online public discussion about the new “adjusted leave” (调休, tiáoxiū) holiday schedule that has lengthened certain Chinese public holidays, while at the same time...
Read MoreIn its annual report on the state of media freedom in China last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) described how authorities used COVID prevention measures to “strangle” foreign news bureaus’ China coverage....
Read MoreThe use of the standard Party formulation of Xi Jinping “pointing the way forward” on various policy issues has become so commonplace that the phrase has become an object of satire, a way of mocking Xi’s cult of personality and...
Read MoreAs China’s Lunar New Year holiday continues throughout this week, CDT Chinese editors have collected and republished over a dozen essays, articles, and other content reflecting the zeitgeist of the transition from 2023’s Year of...
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