What kind of contents the state censors are banning, and what kind of communities are under close surveillance can reveal a lot about today’s China. In the following post, Beijing-based writer Cheng Xingzhi 陈行之 gave his...
Read MoreThe AP reports on the impact of the global financial crisis on China’s exporters: China has been known as the world’s factory for everything from toys to T-shirts, and exports have powered its growth in recent years....
Read MoreLin Qiang (林强), the Deputy Inspector of the Sichuan Education Department, is a Party-recognized model cadre and was given the honor of being one of the Olympic torch bearers. But Lin just submitted a letter to Sichuan provincial...
Read MoreHere is an assessment of the Tibet situation by Zhang Boshu (张博树) of the CASS Philosophy Institute in Beijing, translated for CDT by a reader who wishes to remain anonymous: Zhang was born in Beijing in 1955. He received an MA...
Read MoreThe Telegraph comments on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to China: Chinese goods have controlled American inflation while Chinese savings have financed American consumption. China’s demand for raw materials is not only underpinning world commodity prices: as the Chinese do not care whom they buy from and are happy to pay their cheques straight to […]
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 MoreThe following was first published in The China Journal, No. 55, January 2006. An excerpt from this article also appeared in the CDT Bookshelf. Thanks to Mr. Barm√© for allowing CDT to republish it in its entirety here. I’M SO RONERY Geremie R. Barm√© He’s Back With the accession of Hu Jintao to the dual […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: China’s growing demand for energy sources and profitable construction deals is leading the world’s most populous country increasingly to swoop into Africa, where it has found abundant raw materials, governments desperate for outside investments, and relatively little competition from American firms. The Chinese, sensing Africa’s tremendous potential upside, are making strategic […]
Read MoreFrom Seed Magazine: For decades, China was barely a blip on the scientific radar. Communism’s arbitrary appointments, combined with the Cultural Revolution’s disdain for education, crippled Chinese science. But today China is in the midst of a scientific revolution. China’s current economic and political strategy, as named by President Hu Jintao at a recent Central […]
Read MoreFrom The Jamestown Foundation, via A Glimpse of the World: China’s relations with Africa have steadily deepened and strengthened since the founding of “new China” in 1949. Evolving from ideologically-driven interactions during the Cold War, today’s China-Africa relations combine pragmatic economic and political means to achieve China’s objective of establishing a world order that is […]
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