From Pondering IR in Pokfulam blog: I’m unpersuaded by Tom Doctoroff’s arguments in this article (as seen in China Digital Times) about how China will never accept “democracy”. The “democracy” that Doctoroff describes in this article is nothing I would describe as such. He does not argue that Chinese would reject principles of government based […]
Read MoreFrom The New Republic: On the streets of Chinese cities, Big Brother has gone increasingly high-tech. Once, members of local Party committees essentially monitored their neighbors, sometimes filing reports on potential unrest and picking out future troublemakers. Today, some of that variety of Party watchdog still exists. But in cities like Lhasa, capital of the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China is to impose a quota on investments on the Hong Kong stock market – which will reduce capital outflows to a fraction of the $100bn-plus forecast when its outward investment scheme was announced last month. Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, said there would be no limit on […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Job hunters are having hard times in China. They must compete with hundreds of their peers for a single vacancy. An offer often becomes a lifesaver to many anxious job hunters, especially those carrying the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). China has 120 million HBV carriers, or nearly 10 percent of the nation’s population. […]
Read MoreHere are more works from Liu Yang, a Chinese-born German designer. He made this iconic cultural comparison. Blue is Germany; Red is China. Recommended by Don Clarke: Wait in a Queue:
Read MoreMichael Bristow writes a series of reports on China’s one-child policy. Below is the second part, via BBC News: Childhood in China is often not as easy and carefree as in other countries. Many youngsters rise early and go to bed late in order to cram in school work, extra classes and music lessons – […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: At least five people have been killed and three are missing after Typhoon Wipha hit China’s densely-populated eastern coast, state media says. Strong winds and heavy rain damaged thousands of homes and disrupted power to hundreds of communities. Nearly three million people were evacuated ahead of the storm, which was predicted to be […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: Chinese embassies and consulates from New York to New Zealand have had some unwelcome but familiar visitors on their doorsteps in recent weeks: human-rights protesters. Only this time around, activists have not been calling attention to authoritarian abuses in China, but in neighboring Burma (or Myanmar, as its military rulers prefer […]
Read MoreThe Telegraph reports: Chief executive Robert Eckert is to visit the Asian economic powerhouse later this month to ensure sub-contractors are implementing a tough new set of safety guidelines Mattel has imposed. Mattel’s reputation has suffered in the last two months after it has been forced to recall millions of products on three separate occasions, […]
Read MoreXiluodu (Ê∫™Ê¥õÊ∏°) hydropower station, a 5-billion-yuan mega project on the Jinsha River (ÈáëÊ≤ôʱü), has been hailed as the world’s third largest hydro development, second only to the Three Gorges Dam in China. Despite all the fanfare, thousands of the dislocated haven’t seen government promises delivered, but instead have seen poverty and in some cases fleeing […]
Read MoreChina Media Project analyses the recent Party lexicon to deduce the likely content of Hu Jintao’s political report to the 17th Party Congress: Reports to the Party Congress are always a vehicle for top leaders to set out their political principles. Promoted loudly by state-run media after Congresses, political reports are also a form of […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Doctors in South China’s Guangdong Province observed an increase in the number of female students visiting hospitals in search of abortions during the weeks leading up to the start of school. Some hospitals in Dongguan, a city in the province, reported two to three times as many abortion requests in the week […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief ( Volume 7, Issue 17): The liberal faction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is doing eleventh-hour lobbying to have genuine political reform included in the agenda of the upcoming 17th Party Congress. Yet all signs point to the fact that General Secretary and President Hu Jintao will only promote the kind […]
Read MoreFrom China Times, via Brookings Institution website: Taiwan’s democratic system exhibits multiple faces at the same time. Positive and negative trends coexist simultaneously. Both optimism and pessimism are warranted. Dark clouds possess silver linings”but they are still dark clouds. Yet if one asks whether democracy has made Taiwan more stable, the answer is unequivocally yes. […]
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