From Council on Foreign Relations website: Adam Segal, CFR’s senior fellow for China studies says the next U.S. president will have to address trade, military build-up, transparency, and the larger issue of China’s role in the world. Segal says: “Whoever becomes president is going to seriously have to reengage with Asia,” because there is a […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Sex” was the keyword most frequently used by Internet users on Google in Egypt, India and Turkey, the search engine giant said a couple of months ago. But on the Chinese mainland, it was money and technology that took the honors last year, according to a list released by Google China on […]
Read MoreFrom RFA: As the city gears up to host the Olympic Games in 2008, authorities in Beijing have detained a prominent civil rights activist on charges of “incitement to subvert state power” and have demolished the last of a shanty town housing people lodging complaints against the government. Chinese rights activist Hu Jia, best known […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Fed up after their land was seized and their protests ignored, farmers have taken to the Internet to declare an end to collective land ownership in China. What began as an isolated protest last month has turned into a movement that has spread to three provinces and one municipality. So far, the […]
Read MoreJack Trout is the originator of “positioning” and other important concepts in marketing strategy and he has more than 40 years of experience in advertising and marketing. Trout stated in his article that China should make products for itself instead of for someone else and China must consider taking what can be called the “branding […]
Read MoreBeijing puts police dogs to help check fireworks on subway, from AP via ABC News: Dogs that can detect fireworks and other explosive substances have started making regular checks at Beijing’s subway stations ahead of the Olympics, state media reported Wednesday. …Eight dogs were patrolling five subway stations, including ones close to Tiananmen Square in […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: One country’s motivation is political, the other’s pragmatic. Venezuela is seeking a strategic geopolitical alliance, China a steady supply of energy. A new oil exploration deal between the two countries – China’s largest single investment in an overseas energy project to date – makes US officials nervous. But with Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Beijing on Friday approved the launch of China’s first gold futures contracts, with simulated trading on the Shanghai Futures Exchange set to begin on Wednesday. The exchange is expected to begin selling real renminbi-denominated contracts soon after and is preparing for huge demand from the rapidly expanding number of Chinese producers […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s economy is likely to see its sixth consecutive year of double-digit growth in 2008, with inflation remaining near 10-year highs, state media said Wednesday, citing an influential think tank. The gross domestic product is expected to grow 10.8 percent in 2008, compared with estimated growth of 11.5 percent last year, the State […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Navy said it was “befuddled” by Beijing’s last-minute November denial of a long-arranged port call for the Kitty Hawk carrier group in Hong Kong. This turndown was on top of China’s refusal to provide shelter for two U.S. minesweepers seeking refuge from a storm, and its rejection of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Beijing introduced new vehicle fuel standards on Tuesday, which represent another way to ensure the “green Olympics” that China has promised. Under the new standard, gasoline and diesel sold at all outlets in the capital city must meet the new China IV standards, which are equivalent to the European Union’s Euro IV standards, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: After being offered more than one million dollars as a reward, China’s national football team players have vowed to play for their lives and qualify for the 2010 World Cup, state press said Wednesday. In a New Year’s pledge, the national side gathered to read an oath to the country, vowing to take […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Xie Lihua‘s parents wanted a boy. But on the day Xie was born in a poor village in rural Shandong province, her mother learned she had given birth to a second daughter. She wept in anger. And she slapped her new baby. “Another girl!” she cried. The year was 1951. Girls […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: The yuan rose to the strongest since a peg to the dollar was scrapped in July 2005, after the central bank reiterated its pledge to maintain a “tight” monetary policy this year. The currency headed for the biggest three-day gain since the end of the dollar link, after advancing 7 percent in 2007, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: In the entirely unlikely event of anyone in China happening to forget the importance of 2008, there is a large digital clock next to Tiananmen Square to remind them. The clock counts the days, hours and minutes to the start of the Olympic Games in August next year. To say the games are […]
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