AP reports that Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project will play at the opening of the Special Olympics in Shanghai next month: Over the subsequent 10 days, Ma and his more than dozen colleagues will give concerts and workshops in Suzhou, Hong Kong and at Beijing’s Forbidden City, performing some of the songs on […]
Read MoreThe U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reports that 99% of illegal steroids are made from drugs originating in China: Federal authorities said yesterday that they had exposed a sprawling underground distribution network for steroids, human growth hormone and other illicit bodybuilding drugs supplied by 37 companies in China. The operation revealed a much wider, more diffuse […]
Read MoreWith the military government of Myanmar/Burma launching a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters, much attention is being paid in the international media to what role China can and should play in influencing the outcome....
Read MoreFrom The Hindu: Negotiations between the Special Representatives of India and China ” National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Executive Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo ” on the border dispute began here on Tuesday. This is the 11th round of talks since the appointment of the Special Representatives. The in-camera talks, which will continue till […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Delegates to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China will come up with a new policy to prevent Taiwan from declaring independence, a senior party official said. “The congress will set a new direction for Taiwan affairs,” Li Weiyi, spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of China’s State Council, said today […]
Read MoreChina’s state-run English language mouthpiece continues it’s environmental crusade with an blunt look at how the country’s poorest are suffering the most from rising temperatures. The piece focuses on the Sichuan Basin (ÂõõÂ∑ùÁõÜÂú∞ ) near Chongqing, hit hard this year by an unusually severe series of natural disasters attributed to climate change: Zhao has survived […]
Read MoreChina’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT; 国家广播电影电视总局 ) continues it’s pre-Party Congress crackdown with the shuttering of a female crime reconstruction show and a wholesale ban on sex-related...
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Relations between China and Germany are the worst they have been in years after Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Dalai Lama in the chancellery last Sunday (more…). The visit “grossly interferes with the internal affairs of China,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu announced during a routine press conference in Beijing on Monday. […]
Read MoreThe controversy over the Three Gorges Dam has raged since before it was built. The possible negative environmental impact of the dam has raised concern from some experts. From Reuters: China’s huge Three Gorges Dam hydro-power project could spark “catastrophe” unless accumulating environmental threats are quickly defused, senior officials and experts have warned, according to […]
Read MoreHere is a test whether you have lived in China long enough as a foreigner. From China Rises: These lists of “you know you’ve been in China too long if” pass around the internet frequently here. They reflect how easy it is to get accustomed to the differences of life here in China. The lists […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: In March, during an otherwise routine budget hearing, Michael D. Griffin, the NASA administrator, warned members of Congress that China’s aggressive space program could “easily” put humans on the Moon before American astronauts are able return to the lunar surface under the space agency’s proposed Moon-Mars project. The China card can […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post: Workers strung red lanterns and spruced up parks across the city for Tuesday night’s celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which for centuries has marked the end of harvest and the time in the lunar calendar when the moon is at its brightest. It is a time for family reunions, for moon-gazing and […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Ballerinas with machine guns will grace the stage for the first performance at China National Grand Theatre, when the spectacular arts complex opens its doors on Tuesday. The Red Detachment of Women(Á∫¢Ëâ≤®òÂ≠êÂÜõ) ballet is one of seven shows that will be put on during a trial of the silver, egg-shaped building designed […]
Read MoreThe wall outside Zhongnanhai in Beijing, by Prince Roy
Read MoreFrom BusinessWeek: Many marketers complain that the Chinese are not brand-loyal. Consumers in China, they moan, will latch onto a new brand one day only to discard it in favor of a competitor the next. Exasperated marketers argue that confronted with such mercenary consumption patterns, they cannot understand their core markets. While there is some […]
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