From AJISS-Commentary: The term “strategic relationship of mutual benefit” has come to symbolize the improved relations between Japan and China in the past year or so. Being shorthand for a “mutually beneficial...
Read MoreFrom China Brief: World leaders, including PRC President Hu Jintao, offered congratulations to Lee Myung-bak following his election as South Korea’s next president on December 19, 2007. Hu’s message stressed his desire to expand...
Read MoreFrom Internet Censorship Explorer: The Search Monitor Project: China focuses on assessing the level of transparency with regard to the self-censorship practices of search engine companies as well as the mechanisms and effects of...
Read MoreWhen China and Russia shake hands on banning weapons in space, what does it mean to the U.S.? How does U.S. respond to it? From Time: In a week in which Russia and China called for a treaty banning weapons in space, the Pentagon...
Read MoreThe car parts case may just be the beginning of China’s defeat in WTO. From Bloomberg: China’s first defeat at the World Trade Organization may trigger more complaints against the nation, which already faces another...
Read MoreXinran, the author of The Good Women of China, comments on the recent event of stolen Sex Photos of Hong Kong Stars. She said sex is one of the old taboo topics in China. From The Guardian: An argument is raging in China over...
Read MoreCurtains are up. Here is more about the Chinese drug factory linked to four deaths in the States. From The New York Times: A Chinese factory that supplies much of the active ingredient for a brand of a blood thinner that has...
Read MoreAlthough Apple is not technically selling iPhones in China, one in ten shipments have landed there due to savvy entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe who purchase the phones and then unlock them. China Mobile, who was in talks...
Read MoreInspired by a new art exhibit at the California History Society, Michael Krasny talks about the lives of Chinese immigrants in California from the late 1800s until the 1960s on KQED’s Forum. Guests on the Feb. 13, 2008...
Read MoreChuck Quirmbach reports for NPR’s Morning Edition about Yi Jianlian, a rookie basketball player from China who plays forward for the Milwaukee Bucks. Because the city does not have a major trade relationship with China,...
Read MoreBeginning March 1, Beijing will ban the sale of new cars that do not meet new emissions standards. From Xinhua News Agency: All the new light petro vehicles that are on sale in the Beijing market shall have to meet the new China...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Local governments in China are resisting Beijing’s attempt to hold back bank credit from big polluting businesses. “Some provinces and financial institutions have not implemented the green credit policy...
Read MoreFrom SignOnSanDiego.com: A jobless Hong Kong man, detained for weeks and denied bail in the city’s nude celebrity photo scandal was released on Friday following a public outcry that he was unfairly victimised by police....
Read MoreFrom AP via Canoe.ca : A Hollywood group said Friday it is suing a popular Chinese website over film piracy, expanding a legal battle over use of the Internet by China’s thriving industry in product copying. The Motion...
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