The New York Times has a more detailed report on the Chinese government’s decision, noted by CDT last week, to allow democratic elections in Hong Kong by 2020: Chinese officials announced Saturday that Hong Kong would have to wait at least another decade for democratic elections to select its leader, and for more than 12 […]
Read MoreChina has been opening up to the rest of the world since the 1970s, but its government has continued to exert an influence on journalism. One example of this is the idea of “Marxist journalism,” a concept introduced by the Party in 2001. From the Washington Post: About 200 Tsinghua University journalism students filled a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via International Herald Tribune: China’s central bank will implement a tight monetary policy in 2008, using a range of tools to keep a check on liquidity, the central bank governor, ?Zhou Xiaochuan , reaffirmed. The People’s Bank of China has waged a war on excess liquidity and inflation in 2007, raising interest rates […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China said on Sunday it will levy taxes on grain exports in 2008 in the latest move apparently aimed at reining in galloping inflation and ensuring stable domestic food supplies. The rates would range from five to 25 percent, according to a brief announcement posted on the website of the Ministry of Finance […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Beijing will soon allow more than 40 North Korean refugees sheltering at foreign missions in China to leave for South Korea and the United States, a report said Sunday. China usually forcibly repatriates North Korean refugees, whom it regards as economic migrants, even though they often face harsh punishment on their return home. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A blast at a coal mine in northeastern China has killed one miner and trapped 18 others, state media said on Sunday. The blast happened on Saturday evening at a privately-owned mine in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, the official Xinhua news agency cited the provincial work safety administration as saying. Rescue work was ongoing […]
Read MoreAs China grows ever-stronger, many are asking what its future place on the world stage will be, and whether China will replace the existing world order or just co-opt it. This is the central question of G. John Ikenberry’s essay, excerpted here. From Foreign Affairs: The rise of China will undoubtedly be one of the […]
Read MoreWorkers work on a pipeline that delivers gas from China’s West to the East, via www.meshrep.com
Read MoreFrom Heritage Foundation website: Despite breathless media reports about the World Bank revising downward its estimate for the size of China’s economy, what the figures really show is that China has indeed overtaken the United States in manufacturing output. As an industrial giant, China needs to be taken seriously as an international economic force and […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was set to visit the birthplace of the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius on Sunday to wrap up a four-day visit to China that has seen a warming of relations between the two countries. The visit to Qufu will demonstrate “the common cultural background between […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s former communist leader and revolutionary hero Mao Zedong amassed a fortune from book royalties. Mao persecuted thousands of writers, along with other artists and intellectuals, for their Western, capitalist ideas. But at the same time he had a steady income from his own writing – a sum now believed to be […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Wang Zhushu rarely sleeps at night. Instead, the 61-year-old retiree paces, listening to the drone of passing ships that shake the walls of her house on the banks of the Yangtze River. Wang’s one-story, brick-and-concrete home rests, she says, on increasingly unsteady earth, weakened and waterlogged as rising waters turn the Yangtze into […]
Read MoreEnergy needs have pushed China to find new sources of oil and gas. From AP, via the International Herald Tribune: China’s biggest oil company, China National Petroleum Corp., will spend 16 billion yuan (US$2.2 billion, €1.5 billion) to help build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan that will eventually supply energy for booming cities such […]
Read MoreTranslated by Michael Huang, from China Elections & Governance: The New Culture Movement (NCM) in the early 20th century was an important part of contemporary China’s democratic revolution against feudalism and despotism. By replacing classical Chinese with vernacular Chinese, its contribution to the spread of literacy and knowledge was beyond measure. However, advanced aspects of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The latest bird flu patient was discharged from an unidentified hospital on Dec. 26 in the eastern province of Jiangsu, local health authorities said. After being treated for about 20 days, the patient, surnamed Lu, 52, had recovered sufficiently to leave under the care of family members, the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department said. […]
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