From Reuters: Four workers have been trapped by flooding in a coal mine in eastern China, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. The accident occurred on Wednesday when 16 miners were working at the mine in Jiangxi province, Xinhua said, adding that 12 miners managed to escape. Four miners remained trapped in the Qunfa […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: European rhetoric aimed at China is becoming American in style: confrontational and shrill. Trade deficits and exchange rates are the lightning-rods. European Union threats of retaliation have become more frequent. This new China-bashing is muddle-headed and dangerous. On deficits and exchange rates, the EU’s diagnosis is nonsense. It is true the EU’s […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Seventy years after Japanese troops killed tens of thousands – probably hundreds of thousands – of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war in a six-week orgy of violence here, Thursday’s commemoration of their deaths illustrated how deeply woven the massacre still is into the fabric of Sino-Japanese relations. Anxious to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: More than 4,000 companies were blacklisted for their bad record of air pollution in a public database released here on Thursday. The database, named China Air Pollution Map (http://air.ipe.org.cn), blacklisted more than 4,000 companies, including subsidiaries of Sinopec and Sina-Mars Group APP in China, the China Youth Daily reported. “The database collects the […]
Read MorePremier Wen Jiabao called the recently concluded Strategic Economic Dialogue with the U.S. “fruitful,” but the New York Times headline says “Little Headway With China on Finance”: Despite a number of concrete deals, American officials said they left the talks with lingering concern that China was increasingly using arcane regulations to keep out American products, […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Seattle Times: Chinese citizens flush with cash from their booming economy will find it easier to vacation in the U.S. after a long-awaited agreement that the American travel industry hopes will bring in billions of dollars. The deal, signed Tuesday by U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez , will allow Chinese travel […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Donald Tsang , Hong Kong’s chief executive, asked Beijing Wednesday to allow his successor to be elected through more democratic means in a report that marks the first official recognition of public aspirations for faster democratic reform. The report, now pending approval by the National People’s Congress , China’s rubber-stamp parliament, […]
Read MoreJerome A. Cohen is an NYU law professor and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From The International Herald Tribune: Over the past 30 years, the Chinese Communist Party has adopted – albeit haltingly – many of the norms and institutions required for a formal legal system. These advances have contributed to […]
Read MoreThe National Labor Committee has released a report which says that at a factory which produces Christmas tree ornaments for Wal-Mart, “every single labor law in China, along with internationally recognized worker rights standards, are being systematically violated on a daily basis.” From the New York Times: Wal-Mart Stores said today that it would begin […]
Read MoreAs part of the Strategic Economic Dialogue, the U.S. and China have reached an agreement on illegal logging and associated trade practices, according to AFP: The deal provides for steps that will “help conserve forests and their wildlife and reduce deforestation — a major factor in the global effort to address climate change,” the statement […]
Read MoreTensions have again escalated in Dongzhou, Guangdong Province, the scene two years ago of riots in which protesters were shot and killled by riot police. From RFA Unplugged: Authorities in the southern port city of Shanwei have drafted large numbers of security forces to Dongzhou township and detained three local residents during police raids where […]
Read MoreNew American Media looks at how the massive Olympics preparations in Beijing are playing in the provinces: Most of the young people interviewed seem acutely aware of the fact that their government has spent vast sums of money preparing for the games. It’s always the first thing mentioned when the topic of the Olympics comes […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Shortly after capturing Nanjing in December 1937, the Japanese army gathered together 1,300 Chinese soldiers and civilians at the city’s Taiping Gate. They then killed them. They blew them up with landmines then doused them with petrol before setting them alight, finally using bayonets to finish off anyone still left alive. This […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: A German museum has issued a warning that eight statues in its crowd-pulling exhibition on China’s legendary “Terracotta Army” may be fake after an art dealer instigated a police probe into their provenance. “The exhibition continues but we have put up three notices at the entrance warning visitors that the pieces may not […]
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