For years economists have warned China needs to do more to keep its economic growth from spiraling out of control. Now, with the country’s leaders finally showing signs they may be able to rein in the beast, Bloomberg...
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: Saturday’s legislative elections, in which the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won less than one-fourth of the seats, were a disaster for the party and its worst result in legislative elections since Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) became president in 1988. Saturday’s results raise two important questions. First, why did the DPP do so […]
Read MoreFrom St. Petersburg Times: It was a bumper year in 2007 for newspaper reports about the flow of people and objects between China and America. We read about tainted toothpaste coming here, Hollywood film crews going there to film the latest Survivor and Yao Ming crisscrossing the Pacific to marry in Shanghai and shoot baskets […]
Read MoreFrom PinoyPress: There is no simple description for the U.S.-China relationship. The two countries are bound together by a thick web of interactions that is growing denser on every level. That is to be expected of two countries with global interests and influence. But strains in bilateral relations are likely to grow in 2008. It […]
Read MoreThe list of issues hanging over Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Beijing positively boggles the mind: Indian displeasure over China’s alliances with Pakistan and Burma, Chinese displeasure with...
Read MoreBeijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: The phone rang suddenly last Thursday at about two in the morning. An old friend of mine, a Latin American girl, was crying to me on the line: “Old Xu my friend, I can’t not call you…I had […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: British Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations Mark Malloch-Brown has praised China for making progress in improving citizens’ economic and social rights over the past 30 years. Malloch-Brown made his comments Thursday at a debate in the British Parliament’s Upper House, saying “China, since its opening-up and reform in 1978, has […]
Read MoreRemember last year’s “Nail House” story ( pictures) ? Here is an interesting variation on the theme. In the following photo, published with a report from Xinhua dated January 5, 2008, nearly 200 Chinese flags hang from apartment buildings in a housing complex in Xi’an’s Stele Forest district that is being demolished. In December, according […]
Read MoreNational Geographic Channel made a documentary about the car revolution in China. In the video introduction, it says that “Cars are racing into China supercharging its economy, and delivering dreams of a better life. But China’s cars are clogging its highways and spewing out clouds of pollution. The rest of the world better watch out, […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Before the 2nd National Cricket Singing Competition begins, the master of ceremonies issues a stern warning to contestants. “Don’t let your cricket take drugs. Anybody caught cheating will be disqualified.” The performers are lined up in glass bottles that look like big salt shakers. Some have socks around the bottom […]
Read MoreThe news of Jan. 6 protests in Shanghai travels fast in Chinese cyberspace, even if the subject has now been banned by Internet police. It is hard not to notice similarities between this event and the Xiamen PX demonstrations in June 2007: both are inspired by the potential environmental danger of a large project, and […]
Read MoreMany good points came up this morning at the meeting hosted here in Taibei by the Institute of National Policy Research and LSE. I will not attempt a full review of the various interpretations of the election results but, rather, simply pull out a number of ideas that particularly struck me. One big question was […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Taiwan’s pro-China opposition were savouring their landslide election win on Sunday, hoping the momentum will carry over to presidential polls in March and lead to closer ties with the mainland. The Kuomintang (KMT) party, who insist that better relations with China will help the island’s stuttering economy, crushed the ruling party of President […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China has closed more than 11,000 small coal mines as part of a two-year-old safety crackdown aimed at stemming the industry’s high death toll, the government reported Sunday. The total of 11,155 represents 45 percent of all small mines slated for closure, according to a report on the central government’s official Web site. […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: When she gets sick, Li Enlan, 78, picks herbs from the woods that grow nearby instead of buying modern medicines. That is not a result of some philosophical choice, though. She has never seen a doctor and, like many residents of this area, lives in a meager barter economy, seldom coming […]
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