From China in Transition blog: There is no report or comment on one of the congress’ most important issues, personnel change among the top leaders, particularly the new politburo, on China’s major news websites or BBS, at least so far. On one of the most popular Chinese public forum, tianya.cn, there is even no post […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Avid China watchers have been closely following the ongoing 17th Party Congress for clues about the leadership succession in 2012. But the outcome of that process will have important implications for the rest of the world even before President Hu Jintao hands the reins to his successor. Mr. Hu’s apparent […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via China AIDS Survey: The 17th National Congress gives Chinese leaders a unique opportunity to find ways to make financial services more accessible to the rural poor. That was the goal of one set of proposals already unveiled this year. Such a push is to be applauded, since limited rural […]
Read MoreCharlie Rose hosted a discussion about China and the 17th Party Congress yesterday, first with an interview with Henry Kissinger: followed by a group discussion with Cheng Li, Orville Schell, and Perry Link:
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has reduced rail freight traffic to North Korea in recent weeks, holding up some shipments of humanitarian aid to the impoverished country, an aid agency and rail authorities said on Friday. The move was apparently taken in anger over Chinese rail cars going missing in North Korea, where analysts say they are […]
Read MoreFrom AP via International Herald Tribune: Sharply dressed in a pinstriped suit and purple tie, the chairman of one of China’s biggest banks talked animatedly at a news conference about the bank’s ambitions to expand...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A quarter of China’s greenhouse gas emissions are produced making goods exported to the West, a report from a UK government-funded body has found. Climate research body the Tyndall Centre , using 2004 data, estimates the emissions are double those of Britain for the same period. It wants rich nations to take […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg News, International Herald Tribune and Reuters via International Herald Tribune: The price of oil rose to a new high Friday, breaching $90 a barrel for the first time, and the dollar hit a new low versus the euro before a meeting of officials from the Group of Seven industrialized nations . But it […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China will strengthen the role of the Communist Party in foreign-invested enterprises as the number of cadres in overseas companies here grows, a leading official said Wednesday. “The management of party members working in foreign-invested ventures will be further strengthened,” Ouyang Song, deputy head of the party’s organisation department told journalists. This will […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Japan and China, Asia’s biggest energy users, will likely miss a deadline to agree on joint development of natural gas fields in a disputed area of the East China Sea. “We are far from reaching any conclusion, and it’s regrettable that China hasn’t made any realistic, decisive proposals,” Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka […]
Read MoreCDT’s nomination for the strangest news (so far at least) to come out of the on-going 17th Party Congress. Via China Daily: Chinese taikonauts (astronauts) may start a branch of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in space, said the country’s first taikonaut Yang Liwei. China now has a 14-strong astronaut team. The team members, […]
Read MoreFrom American Enterprise Institute: Space warfare will be an integrated part of battle planning by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in any future conflict. One of the major proponents of integrated space power for the PLA, Major General Cai Fengzhen, believes that “control of portions of outer space is a natural extension of other […]
Read MoreThe Strong China Forum, run by the People’s Daily website, is a very dynamic online forum. Though it is a closely monitored and vetted online community, it also has hundreds of thousands of registered users and thousands of active participants, commenting on and debating current affairs. During the 17th Party Congress, the site has highlighted […]
Read MoreResidents string badminton racquets in Longmen Village near Hangzhou, by Alexandra Moss
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Guangzhou Daily: Zhao Yanguang (˵µÂª∑ÂÖâ) was, and still is, a professor at the law school of Wuhan University. He has devoted most of his adult life to researching what sentences to give to criminals based on the severity of their crime. And he himself didn’t know why he picked this subject, […]
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