Beijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: When I log onto MSN, an online buddy sends me a link. Thinking it is some sort of surprise, I click it – it is about...
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 MoreAccording to New Beijing News, He Ning, the CEO of Beijing Mobile, said that real name registration will be enacted by the Easyown (Shenzhou Xing) cell phone numbers this year. This means residents will have to reveal their ID...
Read MoreThe latest from Biganzi’s Jonathan Ansfield, reporting from Xiamen: Though the people’s coup over paraxylene (PX) in Xiamen is not official yet, echoes it are being heard in protests from Nanjing to Shanghai to...
Read MoreThe Economist writes about the different challenges SEPA, China’s environmental protection agency, faces in its efforts to curb pollution: THESE days China’s environmental bureaucrats know how to talk the talk. They...
Read MoreChina is known as the Bicycle Kingdom, maybe also the Bicycle Theft Kingdom. Taking Beijing as an example, bicycle thefts happen everywhere, especially on campuses. I personally lost four bikes during my college years in...
Read MoreFrom AP via Seattlepi.com: Sulfuric acid leaked into the water supply from a chemical factory in central China, poisoning at least 26 villagers, authorities said Thursday. An underground pipe broke at the factory – part of...
Read MoreBelow is Al Jazeera’s report on the Shanghai residents’ protests againt Maglev trains. AI Jazeera says that “China’s Mag-lev is one of the fastest trains in the world – travelling at over...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China’s economy expanded 11.4% in 2007, the fastest expansion in 13 years, mainly powered by exports and investment, even as growth slowed down slightly in the fourth quarter, according to...
Read MoreFrom US-China Today: Over 120,000 children are adopted in the United States every year. In 2006, 6,520 of them came from China, joining more than 56,000 previous adoptees from China. Though the number of foreign children adopted...
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Even as China reported today a second year of annual growth above 11%, the prospect of a U.S.-led global economic slowdown looked likely to force a shift in priorities: from curbing the boom to...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation. Instead, China’s leaders are...
Read MoreA tourist shop at the Great Wall stockpiles coal for heating, by OpalMirror
Read MoreFrom New York Times blog: The world must be changing when on a World Economic Forum panel on geopolitics you have three Asians, two Europeans and just one American (even though that American was called Power — the Harvard...
Read MoreFrom New York Times blog: After the geopolitics session saw a Chinese panelist offering lessons in democracy and an American speaker underscoring modesty, Chinese and American experts clashed — if good-naturedly, for the...
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