From Finfacts.com: JATO Dynamics , a leading world provider of automotive data and intelligence, reports today that the Chinese car market continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. In the first nine months of 2007, the market for domestically-assembled cars in China was 4,417,252 units, which represents a 45.3% increase over the reported volumes in […]
Read MoreIn the New Yorker, John Updike reviews Ha Jin’s new novel, A Free Life: His new novel, “A Free Life,” (Pantheon; $26), is a relatively lumpy and uncomfortable work, of which a first draft, he confides in a brief afterword, was completed in the year 2000. In an interview that same year, with Bookreporter.com, he […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Chinese and European Union leaders Wednesday agreed that trade imbalances between the two sides were unsustainable, but wrapped up talks without finding common ground on the issue of the euro’s rise against the yuan. The conclusion of the annual EU-China Summit in Beijing looks unlikely to ease pressure on the yuan […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China on Wednesday denounced criticism of its peacekeepers in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur, saying they were helpful to the peace process and should not be threatened. A group of Darfur rebels last week...
Read MoreFrom AP: The number of people arrested in China on charges of endangering national security more than doubled last year, a rights lobbying group reported Wednesday in a finding that underscores the communist government’s sustained clampdown on dissent. The San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation said a recently published Chinese government yearbook showed that state security […]
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Read MoreThe New York Times interviews Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of France’s nuclear energy giant Areva, about the recent deal struck with China, the largest in the industry’s history: The agreement will bring both technology and much-needed energy to China, which has the world’s fastest-growing appetite for energy. But the deal could prove an even greater boon […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post has the latest report about government reactions to a landslide near the Three Gorges Dam: A week after a landslide near the controversial Three Gorges Dam killed more than 30 people, Chinese officials on Tuesday defended the environmental work around the project, arguing that “geological disasters” in the area “have been effectively […]
Read MoreFrom James Fallows blog: With usual caveats against sweeping generalization, what this made me think was: Japan is all about the way of doing things. Practice, ritual, perfectionism, as much fanatical attention to the process as to the result. China is all about finding a way to do things. Improvisation, little interest in rules, putting […]
Read MoreFrom Economist: “China will be the dominant power in the 21st century and the employment opportunities that speaking Mandarin will give are immense.” Thus Anthony Seldon, headmaster of Wellington College, at a conference in 2006 entitled “Why every school should offer Mandarin”. Nearly two years later, the spectacular growth of the language in British schools […]
Read MoreThe Chicago Sun-Times takes a tour of Shanghai’s art galleries: Not long ago Suzhou Creek was full of abandoned factories, run down and unoccupied since the 1980s. But now the area, just 20 minutes by taxi from the happening Bund, Shanghai’s famous waterfront street, attracts tourists — and serious collectors — eager to check out […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via People.com: China has reiterated its support for local non-governmental organization (NGOs) and urged them to strengthen their capacity building to play a bigger role in building a harmonious society. Li Yong, deputy director of the State Administration of Non-Governmental Organization, said here Monday that it was of great importance for Chinese NGOs […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The European Union (EU) is expected to pressure China to allow its currency to strengthen more quickly at a bilateral summit in China this week. The weak yuan has buoyed exports to Europe, which has seen its trade deficit with China soar. “We will have a large tour d’horizon on all matters, […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China on Tuesday sought to quell fears over huge problems surrounding the Three Gorges Dam, arguing that the advantages outweighed any troubles with the world’s biggest hydroelectric facility. “Overall, regarding the Three Gorges project’s impact on the ecological environment, the benefits outweigh the negative consequences,” Wang Xiaofeng, the head of the office in […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese warship’s visit to Japan on Wednesday — the first such port call since World War Two — will be a striking symbol of a thaw in Sino-Japanese ties, but few expect smooth sailing in relations between the Asian rivals. Tokyo and Beijing first agreed to reciprocal warship visits seven years ago, […]
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