Hangzhou-based journalist and blogger Zan Aizong seizes on the arrival of the 17th CPC National Congress, now underway in Beijing, to issue a call for a law guaranteeing journalists’ rights. Translated by CDT (with thanks...
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: It was quite a shock for some Russians in a rural backwater of the Urals recently to see lorry-loads of Chinese troops go by. True, they were not pointing their guns at the babushkas but many people panicked, wondering how Chinese forces had reached parts of central Russia, a feat not achieved […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: More than 1,000 people from China’s toy-making industry attended a government-sponsored training sessions on the quality and safety of export toys from Oct. 11 to 12, the latest effort of the government to ensure sound quality of export toys. During the two-day training sessions held in Guangdong, government officials and executives of transnational […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao offered on Monday to enter into negotiations with Taiwan to reach a peace agreement in an overture to the self-ruled island which China claims as its own. Addressing the opening of the Communist Party’s 17th Congress, Hu warned the democratic island against formally declaring independence, but did not take […]
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing (梁京¨) just wrote another essay on the 17th Party Congress. Thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: After the 17th National Party Congress, Hu Jintao, having cast off the vexatious...
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Recently, a swindler under the false identity of a “director of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee” successfully cheated a Sichuan official out of a fortune of 470,000 yuan (US$62,571). The news captured the public eye immediately when it was released on websites. While they jeered at […]
Read MoreA terracotta soldier ready to be shipped to London, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: The Chinese Communist Party announced Sunday that President Hu Jintao’s major political innovation, which he calls “scientific development,” would be enshrined in the party charter as a historical contribution to Marxist ideology. The move, in an amendment to be approved by the party’s 17th National Congress, which opens Monday, constitutes an official […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Your favorite pants are fraying? You may soon be able to order replacements directly from the factory where they were made, according to the chief scientist of an ambitious Chinese Internet project. China’s government is building a vast virtual world dubbed Beijing Cyber Recreation District, which founders say will help the manufacturing superpower […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times gives an overview of the lead-up to the Party Congress, to begin tomorrow: Control and secrecy are paramount. Nearly a year before the congress, the propaganda ministry distributed its list of forbidden media topics for 2007, which included judicial corruption, lifestyles of the wealthy and extramarital affairs. Several months ago, state […]
Read MoreHong Kong’s Ming Pao Daily reported on Oct, 15, 2007: The hotel locations of different provincial delegations to the 17th Party Congress are still kept secret. According to Ming Pao’s report, every delegate’s room has a confidentiality reminder notice: It bans delegates from bringing Congress-related documents out of their hotels, and from using the Internet […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: Many observers have recently argued that the newly forged Indo-U.S. alliance will work against its “intended aims of Chinese encirclement.” Although India denies its part in any attempt at “Chinese containment” to the publicly acknowledged satisfaction of China, the theory nevertheless persists. China’s response to the Indo-U.S. alliance is, however, quite creative. […]
Read MoreHere below is an excerpt from ChinaDialogue editor Isabel Hilton’s interview with Nobel winning Al Gore about China and India: IH: There are people, of course, who say, “What’s the point of acting, as long as China and India are not constrained to act?” AG: Well, the truth is that China and India will have […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese President Hu Jintao is one of the most powerful men in the world. He leads more than a billion people, runs the world’s largest army, controls the world’s fourth biggest economy, and, if he wants, he can fire off the first weapons in a global nuclear war.
Read MoreFrom Reuters via International Herald Tribune: An increase in Chinese bank reserve ratios to a record high may flatten the yield curve while bringing closer a pullback in the soaring stock market, traders and analysts said Sunday. The central bank announced Saturday that it was raising reserve ratios for the eighth time this year, starting […]
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