From Los Angeles Times: China is used to dour Communist Party leaders with sanitized resumes, but the new team unveiled Monday has glamorous wives, exposure to Tiananmen-era student leaders and even a brush with divorce. That’s not to suggest that China’s monopoly party is going tabloid. The tough crowd that forged modern China behind such […]
Read MoreFrom Boston Globe: The Chinese have never really understood why the West makes such a fuss about Tibet. China has crushed Tibet, and brought in settlers to swamp its culture. But by their lights they have brought modernity and a better life to a feudal society groaning under the rule of lamas. They call the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: India’s most powerful politician, Sonia Gandhi, heads to China this week to set the stage for a summit between the Asian heavyweights, as relations between the rivals show renewed signs of strain. Gandhi, head of the Congress party and the ruling coalition, is due to arrive in China on Thursday, setting the stage […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Fifty years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, and jolted the U.S. into a race for space, China is ramping up a new space contest — with an eye on rival Japan. Tomorrow evening, the China National Space Administration is scheduled to fire a “Long March” […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Before the 17th National Congress went into session I said we would have to see whether the phrase “political reform” (ÊîøÊ≤ª‰ΩìÂà∂ÊîπÈù©) appeared in a subhead in Hu Jintao’s political report. This, I said, would determine whether political reform would become a key agenda over the next five years. Based on appearances […]
Read MoreFrom 24 Hours Online, summarized and translated by CDT: I have arrived at my destination, Xi’an city. The whole journey was about 3,800-4,200 km. I visited five provinces–Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and...
Read MoreFrom The Forbes: The big question everyone in the know was asking going into this week’s 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was who would emerge as the anointed next leader of China. But there remains the other big question, one that too often goes unasked: How much does it matter? This is […]
Read MoreWhile names such as Xi Jinping, Wang Qishan, Liu Yandong, and Bo Xilai were prominent as rising political stars in the recently concluded Party Congress, many China observers have noticed that they are often also labeled by the...
Read MoreFrom The Wired Magazine: I didn’t know I was a surveillance target until the day I walked into a hotel in China’s Fujian province. I was pushing past half a dozen workmen changing lightbulbs in the glum but busy lobby when a uniformed man stepped in front of me. Blue jacket, creased trousers, braided epaulets, […]
Read MoreColin Thubron’s latest travel book, Shadow of the Silk Road, chronicles his journey down the full length of the fabled route. The Times reviewed it last year when the book was released in the U.K. (It comes out in paperback in the U.S. this week): From the very first page, where we join the author […]
Read MoreApparently in the run-up to the 17th Party Congress, the latest edition of the Economist, which focused on workers and the poor, had several pages removed before being distributed inside China, according to Jean Chen’s blog. She gives a list of the expurgated pages and posts the full articles.
Read MoreProfessor M.D. Nalapat is vice-chair of the Manipal Advanced Research Group, UNESCO Peace Chair, and professor of geopolitics at Manipal University. From UPI Asia Online: Unlike Jiang, who shouted aloud but seldom brought out the stick, Hu Jintao has made China a formidable competitor for U.S.-EU influence across the globe, providing the same geopolitical option […]
Read MoreThe New York Times analyzes the recently concluded 17th Party Congress: President Hu Jintao used the word democracy 61 times in his main address to the congress. The official Xinhua news agency reported that the party nominated 221 candidates to fill the 204 full seats on the Central Committee, meaning that 8.3 percent of those […]
Read MoreFar Eastern Economic Review writes about progress made by journalists in China, despite official censorship: Chinese newsstands get more impressive by the day: So much is on offer that most of them have opted to add a few extra magazine holders on the pavement. Here, a holder brimming with publications on collecting and the arts, […]
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