Secretive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appears to have taken a train to China yesterday and is staying in a hotel in Dalian. From the Christian Science Monitor: All the world knows about this rare and potentially critical...
Read MoreBBC reports on the opening of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai: Almost 250 countries and international organisations are showcasing their culture in an event themed around sustainable development. Many are doing so in pavilions...
Read MoreWith the World Expo slated to open in Shanghai on Saturday, reporters and commentators are looking at what it will mean for Shanghai, for China, and for the world. The Independent writes about a crackdown on dissent in the...
Read MoreA Chinese artist is accusing Frances most prestigious art school of censoring her work. From CBC: The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris took down two seven-metre banners created by Ko Siu Lan.Nicolas Sarkozy,...
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Tania Branigan gives a primer on the key issues causing tension in relationships with Western countries, including Taiwan, Tibet, Iran, currency, human rights, and Internet censorship. For example: Tension 1 The...
Read MoreAn installation by Chinese artist Ko Siu Lan satirizing one of Sarkozy’s political campaigns has been removed from display: An installation of four banners by the Chinese artist Ko Siu Lan on the exterior of the Beaux-Arts...
Read MoreAfter making a statement on Saturday that the CCP has dealt a “death sentence” on Tibet, the Dalai Lama was made a honorary citizen of Paris on Sunday. From the BBC: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe made the award in what...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on China’s new role in the global spotlight at the ongoing G20 meetings: Yet even as Presidents Hu Jintao and Obama had their first meeting on Wednesday on the sidelines of the summit...
Read MoreFrom the Economist: The rise of China over the past three decades has been astonishing. But it has lacked the one feature it needed fully to satisfy the ultranationalist fringe: an accompanying decline of the West. Now...
Read MoreOne of China’s newest book releases is Unhappy China: The Great Time, Grand Vision and Our Challenges(《中国不高兴：大时代，大目标及我们的内忧外患》). A 2009 analog to the nationalist 1996 bestseller China Can Say No, the book is a stinging...
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