From AFP: European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso met here Friday with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, launching high-level dialogue expected to include the unrest in Tibet. The meeting with Barroso, who is leading a...
Read MoreWhile many in China remain angry over Olympic torch protests and foreign media coverage of the Tibet unrest, high-level government officials from France and China are trying to make amends for bilateral tensions. From AFP: China...
Read MoreHe Yanguang (贺延光), born in 1951, is a senior photojournalist for China Youth Daily. He wrote on his blog: “I don’t boycott things from France, I only boycott idiots 不抵制法货，只抵制蠢货.” Searching this phrase online,...
Read MoreKatrin Bennhold reports in the International Herald Tribune: After a wave of anti-French protests in China, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is sending three top officials there this week in a diplomatic charm offensive aimed...
Read MoreThe Olympic torch arrived in London today, AP reports (via the IHT). It has already left a string of protests in its path, first in Greece and then in Istanbul, Turkey. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will...
Read More“The European Union meets Friday to discuss ties to China after the unrest in Tibet.” The Christian Science Monitor’s Robert Marquand reports from Paris: If the government of China hopes the world will go for...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The Pentagon assumes the Chinese were angered by US sales of anti-missile systems to Taiwan (hardly shocking given the Chinese missiles targeting Taipei) or by President George W. Bush’s meeting...
Read MoreA combination of Internet outrage, protest from world leaders, and Olympics scrutiny appears to be having effects on China’s approach to the death penalty. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Beijing correspondent, “facing pressure before the Olympics, Beijing’s policy is to ‘kill fewer, kill carefully.’ Activists urge more legal reforms.” In 10 years on China’s […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, David Shambaugh writes about the causes of growing tensions between China and the European Union: Tensions have grown over the past year, for a number of reasons. In particular, there has been a changed mood in Europe about China. This is evident on a number of levels – public, corporate […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese President Hu Jintao is one of the most powerful men in the world. He leads more than a billion people, runs the world’s largest army, controls the world’s fourth biggest economy, and, if he wants, he can fire off the first weapons in a global nuclear war.
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