Chinese environmental officials held a “secret” meeting with members of the U.S. congress, without White House participation, about climate change agreements, according to Spiegel: High-ranking sources close to the participants of the meeting between the Chinese delgation and Congress said the Chinese sought to find out how determined Congress is to push through rigorous climate […]
Read MoreIn Part II of their Choking on Growth series, the New York Times takes on the issue of water, or the lack thereof, in China: For three decades, water has been indispensable in sustaining the rollicking economic expansion that has made China a world power. Now, China’s galloping, often wasteful style of economic growth is […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The government recently announced that it will release information about the country’s military budget each year, including how the funds are used. It will also release information about seven...
Read MoreFrom UPI Asia Online: The city government of Shouguang in China’s Shandong province recently banned an organization of volunteers. Members of this group visited lonely and widowed elderly people and helped children who could not continue their education. The group had grown from three people to over 150 people in just three months. While the […]
Read MoreChris O’Brien at Beijing Newspeak looks at how the official media will cover the Three Gorges Dam, since dam officials have now acknowledged that the project could create an environmental “catastrophe”: After years of positive spinning, the central leadership has come as clean as the Yangtze River was about 100 years ago about the environmental […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you have long spoken out in favor of a separate Taiwan. Now you have launched a campaign for acceptance into the United Nations. Why — and why now? Chen: Taiwan wants to be treated like a normal country. There are at least 190 members of the UN. Why isn’t […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Internet in China is not as restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most controls actually coming from sites practising self-censorship, an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday. But the government has also effectively stopped online dissent, defying expectations that the Communist Party would never survive broadband, said […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: The chairman of Taiwan’s governing party resigned Thursday citing differences over a proposal to change the island’s name, less than a week after he was charged with corruption. Yu Shyi-kun, a former Taiwan premier, had already pledged last week to step down upon his indictment on graft and forgery charges along with two […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: US retail giant Target has become the latest company to recall Chinese-made toys because of safety fears. Target has issued a voluntary recall of 350,000 items after discovering that their paint contained excessive levels of lead.
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: In unusually frank language, Chinese officials publicly acknowledged “hidden dangers” at the massive Three Gorges Dam, including landslides, erosion and pollution that could lead to an environmental disaster if not quickly fixed. “If no preventive measures are taken, the project could lead to catastrophe,” the official Xinhua news agency said […]
Read MoreWhile governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. See the climate challenges China faces, from China Dialogue: …China faces additional problems in data collection because of high levels of urban pollution, which makes its cities unnaturally hot. Ren showed slides of meteorological stations […]
Read MoreThe legend of the beauty Chang’e who flied to the moon and became the Goddess have been spread for hundreds of years. In reality, China finally launches its plan to explore the moon. From AFP: China plans to set up a lunar base after 2020, capping a series of preparatory robotic missions and a human […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s State Council has approved in principle a five-year environmental protection plan that sets out guidelines, major tasks and measures for the government to tackle pollution. The plan, approved during an executive meeting presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday, has put “pollution control and prevention” as its focus with the aim […]
Read MoreChinese blogger Laomao wrote on his “I blog therefore I exist” blog: These are photos which quite popular in most of Chinese bulletin boards, I saw many readers replied that they cried after they saw those pictures. I , also, can’t stop my tears during I browsing and translating them. It’s another side of China, […]
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