From the Radio Free Asia (RFA), thanks to David Kelly for the translation: Wen Jiabao’s official visit to Japan this week has been referred to by the Chinese media as an ice-melting journey. Public opinion everywhere is of the view that the years of Sino-Japanese freeze triggered by Koizumi’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine should […]
Read MoreIn the March 25 issue of Phoenix Weekly, an “anonymous” ex-inmate recounts life in the Chinese prison system: Prisoners who’ve just gone in will get a hazing from long-time inmates. Normally, the block monitor himself – the group leader of the cell – will dress them down, and there are all sorts of ways of […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: In a signed article published by the People’s Daily on February 27, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that China would advocate peace, development and cooperation, and always pursue an independent foreign policy of peace. The article, titled “Our Historical Tasks at the Primary Stage of Socialism and Several Issues Concerning China’s Foreign Policy”, […]
Read MoreIn his new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, James Mann, author in residence at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and former Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Beijing, throws into question the conventional wisdom about China’s future. In Mann’s view, U.S.-China relations have […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for following translation: The impact Taiwan is having on mainland China should not be underestimated. Over 200,000 Taiwanese live in the Shanghai area. While western democracy mediated through foreign languages and foreign cultures can be especially hard to understand, Taiwan’s remarkable progress in rule of law and democracy are […]
Read MoreChinese blogger Liu Dingcai (ÂàòÂÆöÊâç) commented on Hu’s visit to India, translated by John Kennedy of Global Voices Online : China’s national chairman Hu Jintao arrived in the Indian capitol New Delhi on November 20 to commence the visit dealing with affairs between the two countries. On the 21st Hu Jintao met with Indian Prime […]
Read MoreThe following essay by Geremie R. Barme was published as ‘After the Future’ in the Review supplement of The Australian Financial Review, 29 September 2006; to appear as a book chapter in 2007. Many thanks to Mr....
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution announces that issue No.19 of the China Leadership Monitor is available on-line at here. Articles in this issue includes: Military Affairs–James Mulvenon So Crooked They Have To Screw Their Pants On: New Trends in Chinese Military Corruption Corruption is the most dangerous cancer in the Chinese party-state today, and PRC media are […]
Read More…I cannot imagine that in fifteen years, I could manage not to ever visit the adoptive mother who reared me from a young age. Or that after becoming the supreme leader of the country, that I would not go in person to sweep the graves of my own father and mother, and instead would have […]
Read MoreSeems that Chinese love crowds. Mainlanders just had another National Day holiday with floods of people traveling across the country, now there is a second protest in Taiwan calling for the resignation of Chen Shui-bian. From BBC News: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have been surrounding the presidential office in Taiwan, calling on President Chen […]
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