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Read MoreGrowing Pains – Adam Teslik
From China Government Watch blog: A story from the BBC today illustrates a point that I brought up in a post a couple of weeks ago. In that post, “More from the Discussion Boards,” I mentioned a Chinese “naivety about the responsibilities and dangers that a world power like the United States faces.” As China […]
Read MoreTextbook Case – Economist
From Economist: “Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.” Such, wrote Mao Zedong, is history. Such, too, was history teaching. In the 1970s it was not uncommon for a teacher to begin a lesson by telling students to take a ruler, turn to a page of their textbook, lay the ruler along the side […]
Read MoreFacing Up To Issues Of Rapid Urbanization – Qin Xiaoying
From China Daily: China’s urbanization process has been picking up speed over the past five years, and this is evident in the growing size of the cities, their increasing economic strengths and management levels. Official statistics show that the country’s 287 cities, from the prefecture level up, have seen more than a one-fold increase in […]
Read MoreTurning His Back On ‘One China’? Frank Hsieh’s Moment – Frank Ching
From OpinionAsia: Taiwan’s president, Chen Shui-bian, and ideologues within the ruling Democratic Progressive Party are trying to corner Frank Hsieh, the DPP presidential candidate who has long been considered a moderate, and tying him to a radical pro-independence platform in the campaign for next March’s election – but the candidate is still trying to create […]
Read MoreChina To Spend 14 Billion Dollars On Polluted Lake Clean-up – AFP
From AFP: China will invest more than 14 billion dollars to clean up its third-largest freshwater lake, which has been devastated by the unchecked waste from thousands of factories, state media said Friday. Over the next five years, east China’s Jiangsu province will spend 108.5 billion yuan (14.4 billion dollars) on improving the quality of […]
Read MoreAre China’s Former Underground Directors Choosing Recognition Over Artistic Freedom? – AP
From AP, via International Herald Tribune: When Zhang Yuan released “East Palace, West Palace” in 1996, its bold exploration of the power play between a police officer and a gay man set off alarms among China’s highly sensitive censors. Authorities confiscated his passport to prevent him from promoting the film overseas, and the movie was […]
Read MoreYu Zhengsheng Appointed Party Head Of Shanghai – Xinhua
From Xinhua: Xi Jinping no longer serves concurrently as the Party secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The post is now held by Yu Zhengsheng, according to the CPC Central Committee. Xi Jinping has been elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the […]
Read MoreChina Cabinet To Get Energy Law Draft By Early 2008 – Emma Graham-Harrison
From Reuters: A draft energy law that may lay the groundwork for an energy ministry will be submitted to China’s cabinet by late this year or early 2008, an official presentation showed, as Beijing seeks to bolster efficiency and control. China, the world’s number two energy consumer, has made resource efficiency and security top priorities […]
Read MorePhoto: A Tibetan monk chants sutras at Drepung Monastery outside Lhasa
A Tibetan monk chants sutras at Drepung Monastery, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom Darfur to Shanghai – Andrew Leonard
On his “How the World Works” blog, Andrew Leonard connects the dots between Darfur, PetroChina and Warren Buffett: So let’s put this all together. The price of oil hits a record high. A Chinese oil company may soon become the largest corporation on the planet. And violence directed against Chinese oil companies in Africa is […]
Read MoreSeparating Fact from Image on Tibet – Howard W. French
In the New York Times, Howard French looks at the complexities of the Tibet issue, which often get overlooked in the arguments presented by both the Chinese government and Tibet’s Western supporters: As with most long-running disputes, the facts that underpin the Tibetan question are full of nuance and subject to competing interpretations. That no […]
Read MoreIndia, China To Set Up New Working Group On Border Issue – Amit Baruah
From Hindustan Times: India and China have decided to set up a working group that will prepare a framework to resolve their decades-old border dispute, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said after meeting his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Thursday. “The 11th round of talks between the Special Representatives (tasked to tackle the border issue) […]
Read MoreGansu Citizens Suggest Legislation – Chen Lin and He Shan
From China.org.cn: A local regulation issued by the Standing Committee of Gansu Provincial People’s Congress on September 27, attracted a great deal of media attention and the ears of academics, among others. The directive, called the Draft Legislation Regulation of the Gansu Provincial People’s Congress and Its Standing Committee, stipulates that normal people have the […]
Read MoreChina’s Crown Princeling – John Tkacik
From The Wall Street Journal: Who is Xi Jinping? It’s possibly the most important question in China today. At the 17th Party Congress, Mr. Xi was made head of the Party secretariat to the Standing Committee of the Politburo — which puts him in pole position to lead China when Hu Jintao steps down from […]
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