Photo: A cyclist passes the main gate of the Forbidden City
A cyclist passes the main gate of the Forbidden City, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreChinese-Made Products Recalled for Lead – Natasha T. Metzler
More recalls (toys and toasters, among other things). From AP: More than a half-million Chinese-made products were recalled Thursday, including “Pirates of the Caribbean” and Baby Einstein toys, because they contain dangerous levels of lead. Coin-shaped “Pirates of the Caribbean” flashlights and soft, textured Baby Einstein blocks were among the 555,200 products recalled, the Consumer […]
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Read MoreOrganic Farming Grips China – Juliana Liu
Olympics pigs aren’t the only farm animals that are living the good life in China these days: Cows at Green Yard, one of China’s first organic dairies, enjoy a pampered life in the country. They take daily strolls in the pasture. For a morning snack, the cows graze on grass untouched by pesticides. When it’s […]
Read MoreThe Man to See – Simon Elegant
From Time: About once a month, a stream of black sedans with heavily tinted windows snakes through the gates of Zhongnanhai, the sprawling headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party, which occupies the southwestern corner of Beijing’s Forbidden City. The limousines bear the 22 members of the party’s Political Bureau, or Politburo. In legend, Communist Party […]
Read MoreChina’s Leaders Deadlocked Over Succession – Joseph Kahn
As the 17th Party Congress approaches, the New York Times reports that the battle for top honors in the Party is heating up: Among the most significant questions that remain unanswered is whether Mr. Hu will succeed in forming a team that consists of people who owe their power mainly to him instead of to […]
Read MoreChina Must Avert Supply Chain Crunch – Daniel Canty
From Arabianbusiness.com: While beneficial to billions of people, the China trade surge has created unprecedented complexity, additional costs and potential choke points in thousands of international supply chains that touch the country, according to Brian Lutt, president of APL Logistics. Lutt recently warned delegates at the Transpacific Maritime Asia Conference in Shenzhen that these challenges […]
Read MoreClash In China’s Xinjiang Injures 40 -Rights Group – Reuters
From Reuters: A clash between farmers and police in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang over the price of cotton injured at least 40 people, a Hong Kong human rights watchdog said on Thursday. Tensions erupted in the Suxingtan area of Xinjiang after villagers farming cotton on fields contracted from a paramilitary group began to sell […]
Read MoreShould Countries Boycott Olympics over Burma?- PostGlobal
Post Global, the interactive discussion site produced by the Washington Post and Newsweek, is now moderating a discussion based on this question: “Should countries tell China that if it does not pressure Burma to open up, they will boycott the Beijing Olympics?”. Panelists include James Fallows, who responds: If a country makes a threat, it […]
Read MoreCitizen Journalist–Blogger Tiger Temple (Laohu Miao 老虎庙)
Blogger Tiger Temple 老虎庙 was listed at Number Three in the list of the Top Ten Sohu Bloggers in 2007. Sohu explains why he earned such a title: Tiger Temple is much more well-known as a blogger than as himself; He blogs with the...
Read MoreChina’s Country Folk Try Co-operative Cure – Mure Dickie
From Financial Times: After Song Xuefang began suffering from vomiting and pains that left her hardly able to walk, she and her husband pulled out their savings and sold their 30 sheep to pay for treatment. It was not enough. Doctors in Mrs Song’s dusty county of Jingyuan in China’s north-western Gansu province could not […]
Read MoreChina’s Media Cautious On Myanmar – Dinah Gardner
From Asia Times: … While Japanese TV showed shocking video footage of the mortally wounded Nagai and the international press published grainy photos of his body on the rain-damp street, China’s media all but shunned the images. Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis News was one of the few mainland papers that printed photos of a dying Nagai. […]
Read MoreAn Illusion Called ‘Greater Tibet Area’ – Hua Zi
From China Daily: In the hall of the so-called “Tibetan government in exile” in Dharamsala, India, there is a large map of the supposed “greater Tibet area”. The area covers the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, one-fifth of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, one-third of Gansu Province, two-thirds of Sichuan Province and one-fourth of […]
Read MoreChina’s Deadly Darfur Games – Jill Savitt
From Salon: The Chinese government can be very persuasive when it wants to be. China persuaded the International Olympic Committee to award Beijing the 2008 Olympic Games — marking the first time in more than 20 years that the Games will be held under an authoritarian government. Now, China is attempting to persuade world leaders, […]
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