Photo: Workers at a footwear factory in Dongguan
Workers at a footwear factory in Dongguan, by clayirving
Read MorePaparazzi and Celebrity Blogs Most Popular – Josie Liu
From the China in Transition blog: Among the eight blog articles that have been viewed for more than 500,000 times, six fall into the paparazzi and celebrity journal categories. The champion, with over 980,000 hits, is a short entry written by 25-year-old model and singer, Ms. Wei Jiaqing, who gained her national recognition after participating […]
Read MoreThree Gorges: A River Runs Through It, for Better or Worse – Mary Beth Sheridan
Despite the damage to the environment and people’s lives caused by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, it is still a scene of natural splendor, according to the Washington Post: By the time we arrived at the Yangtze this past May, about three-quarters of the flooding had occurred. More than 1,000 towns and hamlets […]
Read MoreChina’s Party Congress: Getting Serious – Kerry Brown
From openDemocracy: The “seventeenth national party congress” in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) hardly sounds like an event that merits frontpage headlines far outside Beijing. Nor, on past precedents, will the gathering in the Great Hall of the People on 15-19 October 2007 see much in the way of visible drama. On the contrary, […]
Read MoreLust Lost In (Beijing’s) Translation – Kent Ewing
From Asia Times: It is ironic that Beijing’s latest campaign to turn the world’s most populous country into a sexless nation coincides with the release across Asia of Ang Lee’s award-winning film, Lust, Caution, which takes eroticism to new heights in Chinese-language cinema. While Lee’s co-stars – veteran Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai and […]
Read MoreUK ‘Exporting Emissions’ to China – BBC
The BBC points to a new report that says that British dependence on China-made products is creating excessive carbon emissions: The New Economic Foundation (Nef) says such reliance is adding to CO2 levels because China’s factories produce more CO2 per item than British ones. The report also says many similar goods are both imported and […]
Read MoreCan Fukuda Improve Ties With China? – Frank Ching
From The Japan Times: China and Japan celebrated the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations on Saturday with glittering diplomatic receptions and an exchange of congratulatory messages by leaders of the two countries. While these formalities would have been held in any event, they held special significance this year because of the inauguration […]
Read MoreChinese Flock to Casinos Across Myanmar Border – AFP
From AFP: Far from the crackdown in the rest of the country, Myanmar’s lawless northeast has a distinctly Chinese feel as gamblers eager for a turn at the baccarat table cross into the Southeast Asian nation in droves. Betting is illegal in China, so thousands of Chinese flock to the relative safety of Maijayang to […]
Read MoreLife And Soul For The Party – Richard McGregor
From Financial Times: If ever a moment summed up the parallel universe Chinese president Hu Jintao inhabits, it was when he spoke at Yale university in April 2006, at the end of a US tour. Hu told his audience that the visit to New Haven had triggered a sense of nostalgia in him for his […]
Read MoreChina Tightens Environment Rules For Coast Projects – Reuters
From Reuters: China has amended regulations to require environmental impact assessments for coastal construction projects, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The amendment, which takes effect on January 1, requires reports on the marine impact of all coastal projects, including rebuilding and expansion projects, before they win environmental approval. “The report should include […]
Read MoreChina To Open ‘Super’ Coal Mines – News.com.au
From News.com.au: Energy-starved China will boost coal output by 400 million tonnes a year by 2010 by streamlining the industry and opening a string of new “super” pits, state media reported today. Widespread closures and mergers will leave fewer than 20 firms, including six to eight new “super coal production enterprises’ with a yield of […]
Read MoreChina Calls For Less Smoking On TV Shows – AP
From Associated Press via Seattlepi.com: China’s government urged television and film producers to avoid “unnecessary and lengthy” smoking scenes, following public complaints about rampant cigarette smoking in a popular miniseries, a state-run newspaper said Friday. “New Shanghai Bund” is a remake of a 1980s Hong Kong drama about 1930s gangsters that turned leading man Chow […]
Read MoreAfrican Perspectives on China – Mauro De Lorenzo
From China Brief (Volume 7, Issue 18): Nearly a year after the China-Africa Summit in Beijing, African perspectives on China are emerging more clearly. At the summit”which was really an extended series of bilateral encounters rather than a meeting with “Africa””many African delegations felt like props in a theatrical production, to be looked at rather […]
Read MoreChina And Russia Rule Out Security Council Action On Myanmar – AP
From AP, via International Herald Tribune: China and Russia ruled out any Security Council action on Myanmar but gave strong backing to efforts by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari to help promote national reconciliation and moves toward democracy in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation. Gambari briefed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and senior U.N. officials on his four-day […]
Read MoreVideo: China and the Competition for Energy Resources – Robert Ebel, David Finkelstein and Chas. Freeman
From FORA.tv: China is the second-greatest energy consumer in the world (behind the United States), accounting for about 10.8 percent of annual global energy consumption. As China pushes its economic development forward, its energy demand has greatly increased, and is expected to continue growing at about 5% each year through the year 2020. Dr. Robert […]
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