From Taipei Times: Almost every day, Taiwan is feeling the heat of China’s aggression: Beijing’s military threat and intimidation, more than 1,000 missiles aimed its way, constant attempts to isolate it internationally and a failure to accept Taiwan as a friendly neighbor. What is China fighting against? What is driving China’s leaders in their obsession […]
Read MoreFor the BBC, Michael Bristow writes the first in a series of columns about Beijing in the run-up to the Olympics: Mao Zedong’s portrait still hangs in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Marx is still mentioned and, of course, the Chinese Communist Party is still in power. Even the outdated greeting ‘comrade’ is still used in official […]
Read MoreThe New York Times profiles three young girls who were adopted from the same orphanage in China and now are best friends in Brooklyn: There is an ancient Chinese myth that people who are destined to meet are connected from birth by invisible red thread. For three Brooklyn mothers who were strangers until a few […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s health minister has announced an ambitious programme to provide basic healthcare for every citizen in the world’s most populous nation. Chen Zhu said the Healthy China 2020 programme would provide a universal national health service and promote equal access to public services. Mr Chen was speaking at the national Health Forum […]
Read MoreFrom DefenseNews.com: China is having success in its diplomatic and economic campaign to weaken international support for Taiwan, the self-governing island’s de facto ambassador to Washington said. Joseph Wu, whose official title is representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), argues that Beijing has used diplomatic and economic thuggery and threats to […]
Read MoreBeijing-based correspondent John Garnaut continues his reporting on the Fujin peasants rising up as their land is stolen and they are turned into serfs. From Theage.com: IT’S 15 years since the then Heilongjiang provincial governor decreed how his most ambitious agricultural project was to be evaluated. “The Touxing Project involves the credibility of the country […]
Read MoreChina Media Project provides a fine dissection of the latest development in the battle between Chinese journalists and local officials: Cross-regional reporting, which involves media from one province or city carrying out investigative reporting in another region or area, has typically afforded media more opportunities to tackle tougher stories. As such stories — about corruption, […]
Read MoreChina’s latest “bogus reporting” scandal involving steamed bread comes to an end with reassurances from the government that new food quality regulations regarding mantou (馒头) will not, after all, require the ubiquitous and famously variable buns to adhere to a single shape. Reuters via Canada.com: State media hailed the clarification as timely and blamed the […]
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald just published a profile of professor Qin Hui, a Tsinghua University economic historian and one of the country’s most important public intellectuals. The popular Western view that China will soon collapse under the weight of its political and economic contradictions is fantasy, and becoming more unrealistic by the day. The bigger […]
Read MoreState media reports the government has decided to kill a few hundred chickens to scare the tens of thousands of monkeys using political position and money to violate state family-planning policy. From the Associated Press via the International Herald Tribune: More than 93,000 people in Hubei province violated the policy last year, including hundreds of […]
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune interviews Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian on mainland China’s recent efforts to further “soften” its tone on Taiwan with calls for peace: Q Some say China’s policies toward Taiwan are changing. What is your interpretation? A The nature of the CCP and its basic policy toward Taiwan never changes. It has one objective […]
Read MoreSupporters of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche protest his execution by Chinese authorities, by Sam Perhson via Flickr.
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China plans to open a new commercial aviation route through the Taiwan Strait in a move that officials in Taipei said was a threat to regional peace and a danger to air safety. The new route between Hong Kong and Shanghai would track just inside the Chinese side of the […]
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