From The Independent: Headlines in China tend to focus on how the country’s roaring economy is being fuelled by a lethal cocktail of coal, oil and nuclear power. Chinese power plants emit the second-highest total amount of carbon dioxide (2.4 billion tonnes) into the atmosphere each year. But China also has a fast-growing renewable energy […]
Read MoreIce skating in Beijing last winter, by Dror Poleg
Read MoreAn update to yesterday’s post: Taiwan has recently stopped using the controversial U.N. stamp on its mail, though senders who still wish to use it may request to do so. From Reuters: Taiwan slammed China for refusing to accept letters stamped with a controversial “U.N. for Taiwan” postmark, but the postal service said it would […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Washington Post: A Chinese moviegoer is suing China’s film watchdog in frustration with the censored version of Ang Lee’s steamy World War Two drama “Lust, Caution,” Beijing media reported on Wednesday. …Dong Yanbin, a Ph.D student at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, had filed a suit against […]
Read MoreIn the Financial Times, Albert Keidel, former acting director of the US Treasury department’s Asia Office, writes: In a little-noticed mid-summer announcement, the Asian Development Bank presented official survey results indicating China’s economy is smaller and poorer than established estimates say. The announcement cited the first authoritative measure of China’s size using purchasing power parity […]
Read More“Landslides, Relocation of Residents Among Costly Drawbacks of Yangtze Project.” From The Washington Post: It was in this little village clinging to cliff sides over the Yangtze River that the environmental costs of China’s Three Gorges Dam began to add up, a down payment on what experts predict will be billions of dollars and years […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief (Volume 7, Issue 21): First, it was the massive accumulation of China’s foreign reserves in Beijing’s wallet, the largest in the world, with $1.4 trillion. A major portion of that money has flowed...
Read MoreResponsible China critiques recent press coverage of the eco-city, Dongtan, being built off Shanghai: Back then, way before ResponsibleChina.com was even a twinkle in my eye, Dongtan sounded too good to be true. An entire eco-city three-quarters the size of Manhattan built from scratch? Who’s building this? Who’s paying for it? What Chinese companies are […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Today is Li Xiulan’s favorite day of the year — it’s even better than her birthday. It’s the day they turn the heat on. Winter weather has already arrived here, with temperatures dropping into the high 30s on some nights. But Li’s home in the 500-unit Flower Garden Apartments in […]
Read MoreFrom Korea Times: The despotic regime in Myanmar has again proved itself to be among the most odious governments on earth. What to do? Attempts at “smarter” sanctions and penalties targeting leading junta members and their families probably are worth a try. But without an international consensus they are likely to fail. Unfortunately, ousting the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s plans to visit China will not be affected by the state of talks on energy resources in disputed waters, China said on Thursday, contradicting comments from Japan. The 11th round of talks on how to develop natural gas in the East China Sea ended on Wednesday with no […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China said measures to improve the environment by cutting pollution at coal-fired power plants has started to show results, with emissions of a key air pollutant falling so far this year. Emissions of sulfur dioxide, a main marker of air pollution, fell by 1.8 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2007, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Two property developers based in southern China plan to list in Hong Kong next year, underscoring the continuing appetite for development capital to take advantage of the mainland’s surging real estate sector. Hengda Real Estate Group , based in Guangzhou, has hired Goldman Sachs , Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse to […]
Read MoreThis is an Editorial from Seattle Times: Yahoo’s apology and financial settlement with the families of two prisoners in China are warnings to American business. Ethical behavior does not begin and end with the law. That is not a lesson confined to China, but it may be easier to see through a Chinese lens. In […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China is stamping return to sender on mail from Taiwan postmarked with a slogan supporting the island’s bid to join the United Nations. Taiwan’s post office began putting a “U.N. for Taiwan” postmark on selected items of outgoing mail six weeks ago. Letters and parcels bearing that slogan and one saying “Taiwan joining […]
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