From Financial Times: As the top brass of the Chinese Communist party gathers in Beijing for its 17th congress, ‚ÄâPresident Hu Jintao may feel justifiably proud of his accomplishments in the past five years. Under his watch, the Chinese economy has scored double-digit growth and become the fourth largest in the world. Politically, Mr Hu […]
Read MoreThe Economist marks the upcoming 17th Party Congress by focusing on problems faced by China’s rural underclass and workers: BASKING in its 2008 Olympic glow, no longer shy at counting itself among the world’s greats and blessed with a still booming economy, China looks the coming power. And so it is, up to a point. […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph: The prospect of Communist China being ruled by a leader with links to the Tiananmen Square uprising is looming as the party decides next week who will form the new generation of Beijing’s elite. Two men, both lawyers and career apparatchiks, are tipped to emerge as new members of the ruling politburo […]
Read MoreFrontline/World’s Rough Cut series is featuring a short video, produced by UC Berkeley Journalism School student Duane Moles (assisted by CDT’s own Wu Nan), about coal mining in China: I headed west from Beijing to coal country, Shanxi Province, as part of a team of three reporters. Our plan was to see what life was […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor has an editorial about cross-Straits relations: Small, democratic Taiwan expects volleys of verbal fireworks against it next week when China’s Communist Party meets in a congress held every five years. The new threats wouldn’t be worth much notice – if China wasn’t also revving up its war machine against Taiwan. China’s […]
Read MoreThe latest incarnation of the one yuan bill, the fifth in P.R.C. history, went into circulation in 2004. The front of the note, like all others in the series, shows the face of Mao Zedong. The back depicts the fabled West Lake in Hangzhou, and normally it looks like so: [image: People’s Bank of China […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: Property developers in China face tougher regulations aimed at strengthening control over industrial land and payment procedures for buying land-use rights. The State Land Resources Ministry released the updated rules October 9. According to the new regulations, a property developer may not obtain a land-use certificate before clearing all payments for the targeted […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s ruling Communist Party has intensified a crackdown on dissent ahead of a crucial political meeting next week and is likely to do the same in the lead-up to next year’s Beijing Olympics , rights groups said Thursday. Two of China’s leading democracy campaigners, Yao Lifa and Lu Banglie, went missing in recent […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Zhou Xiaochuan , China’s central bank governor, is expected to be replaced in the wake of this month’s Communist party congress – with his chances of a promotion fading, say Chinese officials and diplomats. Officials, scholars and diplomats familiar with the finance sector gave conflicting accounts of why Mr Zhou’s term at […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, Roger Cohen argues that China’s inaction in Burma is only hurting prospects for the country’s rise: Hu’s harmony is mostly hogwash. But who cares? The global thirst for China’s business, and for alternative power centers to Washington, has given the slogan a free ride. China is not in the business […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: China and Japan started the 10th round of talks on the East China Sea issues in Beijing on Thursday. Director of Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Department of Asian Affairs Hu Zhengyue attended the talks as top Chinese negotiator. The Japanese delegation is represented by Kenichiro Sasae, head of the Foreign Ministry’s […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The United States will ask for a formal investigation of Chinese restrictions on the sale of American movies, music and books, which would be the fourth World Trade Organization case Washington has launched against Beijing in little over a year. The United States will request the establishment an investigative panel at an Oct. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian Thursday agreed to return as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, pledging to safeguard the island’s sovereignty and lead the party to election victory. “After days of deliberation and exchange of consultation with party elders, I decided to take the post of DPP chairman and assume the responsibility […]
Read MoreA new study adds to already heavy skepticism over China’s plans to put biofuels at the center of its ambitious alternative energy strategy. From AFP: China and India, expected to account for nearly 70 percent of global oil demand between now and 2030, are using cheaper biofuels derived from crops to help power their economies, […]
Read MoreFurther action has been taken by SARFT since China Bans “Sexual Sounds” On Airwaves, from Xinhua: About 2,000 advertisements adjudged to be sexually suggestive have been dropped from television and radio broadcast across China over the past two weeks, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said on Wednesday… The “no sex” campaign […]
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