From The International Herald Tribune: Germany and China agreed Monday to heal a rift that opened after Beijing suspended most high-level contacts to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel’s meeting last year with the Dalai Lama and her human rights policies. The thaw was announced after it was confirmed that Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, had […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Unusually heavy snow has left at least 16 people dead and brought transport chaos to large areas of central and eastern China, state media said. Worst hit is Hubei province, where crops have been destroyed and roads blocked by the heaviest snow seen in the area for 16 years….[Full Text] – Read […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Beijing is about to extend a ban on smoking in public places ahead of the Olympic Games despite the Chinese capital’s image as a paradise for smokers who have faced few restrictions on where they can light up. According to a draft bill published on a municipal legal affairs website, the majority of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The uniforms of Beijing Olympics’ workers, technical staff and volunteers were unveiled last night to mark the 200-day countdown to the Games. The uniforms have the key element of the lucky clouds and will be in three colors: red for Beijing Olympic Games Committee (BOCOG) staff, blue for the volunteers and gray […]
Read MoreAnalysts at the Rand Corp. think-tank have scoured Chinese military sources to see what the People’s Liberation Army strategy might be if it ever goes to war with a country that “isn’t explicitly named but is unmistakably the U.S.,” according to the Air Force Times. Such a conflict would likely be sparked by differences over […]
Read MoreThe Indo-Asian News Service profiles Kapil Gautam, a 27-year-old Indian yoga instructor who moved to Shenyang in 2006: Having mastered Japanese and Spanish in Delhi University, Gautam came to China two years ago to study a new language. He ended up in Shenyang town, about 700 km northeast of Beijing where temperatures dip in winter […]
Read MoreFrom a very brief Xinhua dispatch: A migrant worker in south China’s Guangdong Province was elected on Monday as deputy to the country’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress. [Full text]
Read MoreThe following excerpt is from the Shaanxi government official website CNWest.com, December 30, 2007: When asked by a reporter to say a few words to four million Internet users of Shaanxi Province, Yuan Chunqing, governer of the province, had a grin on his face: “I too care about netizens’ attitude a lot. I believe the […]
Read MoreThe BBC looks at the recent Xiamen PX protests as an example of rising people power in China: The Xiamen protest was different to the thousands of others that take place across China because of who was involved. The customary groups of poor, uneducated farmers were joined by young, motivated environmentalists, such as Wu Xian. […]
Read MoreFor the Far Eastern Economic Review, Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, reviews China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? by Randall Peerenboom: Is China proving that developing countries are better off under an authoritarian regime that focuses on developing the economy, rather than under a democratic regime that […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Today: The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet rejected Thursday a news report that the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk was confronted by a Chinese destroyer and a submarine after the carrier was denied a port call in Hong Kong last November. “When we saw that report, I was surprised,” Adm Timothy Keating […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: A FEW days before Christmas, the world suddenly shrank. The distances from one side of the globe to another did not change. Rather, the value of the goods and services we 6.25 billion people produce was abruptly reduced. At one stroke, the real value of the world’s output was slashed by roughly […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China National News: Heavy snowfall over large parts of China Monday caused widespread traffic disruptions and left at least 15 people dead in weather-related accidents. Five people died in collapse of buildings under the weight of fallen snow in central China’s Hubei Province , which had its heaviest snow in 16 years, […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The snowy, fogbound fields around this village in central China do not look like a battlefield. But in recent weeks they have become a flash point in a spreading peasants’ revolt against one of the key aspects of Communist Party rule: state ownership of farmland. “My ancestors bought this land” […]
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