Skyscrapers: Shenzhen vs Chongqing
Shenzhen vs Chongqing: One classic success from China’s 1979 Reform and Opening Policy vs One role model after 1999’s `Go West’ Strategy. Photos from skyscrapercity*forum:
Read MoreBoom in China’s Coal Industry Draws Increasing Interest from Americans – AP
American companies are investing in China’s coal industry, despite the almost daily mining accidents that plague the country. From AP: Look no further than China Shenhua Energy Co., the Beijing giant that produces about 170 million tons of coal a year from 21 mines and builds power plants. While about 80 percent of the company’s […]
Read MoreThe Battle of Beijing － Moisés Naím
“What happens when an authoritarian government and thousands of activists go head-to-head at the Olympics? China is about to find out.” From Foreign Policy: You can always count on the Olympic Games to provide drama. Next year’s games in Beijing will be no different; they too will produce powerful stories and riveting television. But this […]
Read MorePollution Causes Birth Defects to Soar in China – News.com.au
From News.com.au: Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 per cent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China’s worsening environmental degradation. The rate of defects had risen from 104.9 per 10,000 births in 2001, to 145.5 in 2006, affecting nearly one in 10 families, China’s National Population […]
Read MoreForbidden City Blues – Simon Elegant
From time-blog.com: It rained heavily Saturday and the smog vanished and was replaced by glorious, clear blue skies and sunshine. I went for a stroll in the north eastern end of the Forbidden City. In the interests of fairness, I am posting a couple of pictures to offset the fog-bound image below. Middle-aged Chinese friends […]
Read MoreChinese Consumers Prefer Own Products – Geoff Dyer
From The Financial Times: Most Chinese consumers say they trust domestic brands more than foreign ones, according to a McKinsey survey that amounts to a stark warning for multinational companies about nationalist sentiment in China’s booming market. In spite of the furore this year in the US and Europe about the safety of China-made goods, […]
Read MoreChina Arrests 774 in Crackdown on Food and Drugs – David Barboza
China is taking action against the recent discoveries of tainted food and other exports. From the New York Times: The Chinese government said today that it had arrested 774 people over the past two months as part of a nationwide crackdown on the production and sale of tainted food, drugs and agricultural products. Government regulators […]
Read MoreBeijing Issues Warning To Harper – Geoffrey York
From Globe and Mail: The Chinese government has warned that Canada could damage its relations with China if Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes ahead with his plan to meet the Dalai Lama today. He will join a growing group of Western leaders who have deliberately chosen to greet the Tibetan spiritual leader in official venues, […]
Read MoreNew Party Chief Appointed For Liaoning – Winny Wang
From Shanghai Daily: Zhang Wenyue has replaced Li Keqiang as Party chief of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xinhua news agency reported today. Li was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the first plenary session of the 17th CPC […]
Read MoreVideo: China’s Olympic Lie – Unreported World
Unreported World, the critically acclaimed Channel 4 foreign affairs stran, published a video report entitled: China’s Olympic Lie: A journalist looks into Beijing’s so called ‘Black Jails’. Click this link to watch.
Read MoreLang Lang’s Kung Fu Fighting
Wunderkind pianist Lang Lang is known for being a dramatic performer. He puts on quite a show in this video:
Read MoreBritish Legislators Write Letter to China’s Leader Asking for Help Ending Sudan Conflict – AP
On China’s role in Darfur, here is another proposal. From AP, via International Herald Tribune: More than 100 British legislators have written a letter to China’s government urging it to take greater responsibility for ending the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, a human rights group said Monday. The letter, addressed to Chinese President Hu Jintao, […]
Read MoreChina: Rules of Olympic Engagement – John Kennedy
An update of a CDT post, from Global Voices: On Hong Kong Democratic Party founder and Legco member Martin Lee being labeled a race traitor and running dog after his WaPo article, which proposed engagement with Beijing in lieu of Olympic boycott, was widely interpreted by some as a call for American intervention in China’s […]
Read MoreDon’t Over-sell The Benefits Of A Change In The Chinese Exchange Rate Policy – Shang-Jin Wei (È≠èÂ∞öËøõ)
From VoxEU.org: The Chinese renminbi (RMB) has come under intense scrutiny in the last five years, and calls for its revaluation have found receptive audiences amongst economists, politicians and the popular press. Many have advocated that China move to a more flexible exchange rate in order to alleviate global imbalances and improve its own macroeconomic […]
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