John Kennedy at Global Voices reports on how the Chinese blogosphere is responding to the ongoing events in Burma: While Chinese authorities remain weaselly in their diplomatic response to Myanmar’s fatal clampdown on the tens of thousands of monks and citizens of Yangon who have come out to rally for an end to the military […]
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Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chinese authorities have taken the rare step of censoring an article in a Communist party magazine in which a top official urged tougher action for the “enormous” damage caused by US and other western cyber-spy attacks. The September edition of the Chinese Cadres Tribune was recalled quietly from circulation and replaced with […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The unfolding civil crisis in Myanmar is precisely the kind of test that China’s image as an emerging global power will increasingly face in coming years, as Beijing’s economic reach and international influence steadily grow. The question people in this region and in capitals around the world will be asking […]
Read MoreThe New York Times gives more details about the alleged drug smuggling ring that produces the world’s supply of steroids: A 62-page affidavit by a special agent of the Food and Drug Administration details an extraordinary level of personal involvement in the trafficking and sale of the powerful hormones by Jin Lei, the founder and […]
Read MoreFrom Straits Times, via Taiwan Security Research: From out of the blue, a flurry of news articles this week seem to hint at a potential scuttling of President Hu Jintao‘s game plan for a major leadership reshuffle next month. The highlight of the reshuffle – many political observers had predicted – was to have been […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: Unlike former Soviet Union’s economic and political models, socialist economy with Chinese characteristics is market economy; socialist politics with Chinese characteristics is democratic politics. Therefore, steadfastly adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics not only include pushing forward economic marketization, but also pushing forward political democratization. These two objectives […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: Before the 1980s, 3,500 Chinese sturgeon returned annually to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to spawn. Today that figure is less than 500. Estimates put the breeding population at less than 1,000. At Shanghai’s Sturgeon Rescue Centre, a Chinese sturgeon over three metres long is laid out on a table. […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: A by-election for a Hong Kong legislative seat is turning into a face-off between two well-known former government officials who represent different approaches toward shaping this former British colony’s political future. In 2003, Regina Ip’s unflinching support for an antitreason law as secretary for security made her a symbol of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “I shouldn’t have pulled the plug.” So lamented many high school graduates, the so-called “young intellectuals”, upon hearing the news that the national college entrance examination would resume after more than a decade’s suspension. The year was 1977. Nine years earlier, in 1968, those teenagers whose education had been abruptly disrupted when […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: A top Chinese official warned Friday that moves by Taiwan to assert its independent identity have taken relations into a “period of high danger.” Speaking at a reception for Oct. 1 national day, Jia Qinglin said China remained committed to using peaceful means to unify with the self-ruled island […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Chinese authorities knocked down part of a rundown neighborhood in Beijing on Wednesday where people live, sometimes for months, while petitioning the central government for help fighting grievances in their hometowns. Authorities sprayed several buildings with water and then crushed them with a bulldozer. The small compound lies next to a massive […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily: China and Japan on Thursday expressed the hope that bilateral ties should move headway as they staged grand activities marking the 35th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties. “Chinese and Japanese politicians made strategic decision to normalize diplomatic relations 35 years ago, turning a new chapter of the Sino-Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom IHT: …”Market growth is the rule here,” noted Anna Kalifa, the head of research for Jones Lang LaSalle in Beijing. “It’s just a question of more or less.” Sale prices of newly built homes slid slightly more than 40 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2007, figures from the national statistics bureau show. […]
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