From China Daily: Consumer inflation in China jumped to the highest level in nearly 11 years in August as food prices continue to surge, raising the possibility for another interest rate hike. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a barometer of inflation, rose 6.5 percent year-on-year in August after a 5.6 percent increase in the previous […]
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Read MoreFrom Heritage Foundation website: Bizarre as it may seem, a peaceful referendum in Taiwan may portend war. Dozens of challenges bedevil U.S.‚ÄìChina relations, but the “Taiwan Issue” was first on the agenda for President George W. Bush’s talks with China’s Hu Jintao at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum last week. Hu has warned Bush […]
Read MoreClimate change has caused melting glaciers, fewer polar bears and disappearing pure arctic air. From Reuters: From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze. In the apparently pure Arctic air, a research station on a Norwegian island mountain ridge finds tiny chemical traces from factories in Russia, […]
Read MoreA real upgrade of China’s export machine? Stay tuned. From BusinessWeek magazine: China has long prided itself on being the world’s workshop. Shipments of labor-intensive, low-cost goods”everything from toys to tube socks to tires”turned the country into an exporting colossus, powering growth of nearly 10% a year for the past three decades. But as Beijing […]
Read MoreFollowing the Washington Post report on government censorship efforts in the face of new technologies, the International Herald Tribune covers ties between Wall Street firms and companies that provide surveillance technologies in China, which Rep. Tom Lantos has called, “an absolutely incredible phenomenon of extreme corporate irresponsibility”: Wall Street analysts now follow the growth of […]
Read MoreCommentators and bloggers are responding to the allegations published in The Times that Chinese military hackers are planning a large-scale cyber attack on America, and other recent reports about China. From commentator Tom Plate: Before long, sensible observers will point out that every country tries to hack into the computers of perceived enemies and even […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Metropolis Daily, translated by CDT: On September 6, in Tongxin County of Ningxia province, nine rain rockets were fired to alleviate drought. One of the rockets fell and injured a migrant worker. The victim is named Li Wenqing, 38. At 5 am that day, it suddenly rained very hard. Migrant workers who constructed […]
Read MoreThe story reminds us of an old question: will newspapers die one day? From the International Herald Tribune: In an age of proliferating free news on the Internet, The Standard, a 58-year-old English-language daily newspaper, took a gamble Monday that underscores the challenges facing print publications everywhere. It joined the growing ranks of the free […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor looks at one of the consequences of new regulations governing Chinese food exports: Soon, price hikes are expected to hit anyone who ventures into a Chinese restaurant, thanks to the soaring prices of ingredients imported from China. That’s the unexpected fallout from China’s crackdown following scandals involving tainted food exports. As […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Winners of the country’s first award for homosexuality studies were announced in Shanghai yesterday, with eight final prize winners presenting papers on the topic. And the ability to hold such a competition in China was in itself a sign of progress, said To Chung, chairman of contest organizer Chi Heng Foundation, a […]
Read MoreFrom Asian Perspective: Abstract: This paper demonstrates that prospects for emission reduction are not realistic under the current policy environment and we argue in this paper that China is unlikely to take on commitments in the near future. We analyse the major determinants of China’s climate change policy, relating these to China’s stance in global […]
Read MoreFrom Global Asia: When it works well, however, democracy gives expression to the finest qualities of idealism and public service, but by its very nature, it is also vulnerable to human frailty. The crucial point is that a democracy is the only form of government that can be truly accountable to the people in whose […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The country does not face an imminent risk of monopoly by foreign companies in any industry, according to the China Foreign Investment Report 2007 released by the Ministry of Commerce. Wang Zhile, director of the Multinational Enterprise Research Centre affiliated to the Ministry of Commerce, made the observation in an essay for […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Surrounding the Chinese character Pi (±Å, fart) formed by 300,000 candles, about 2,000 red-clad protesters gathered at Ketagalan Boulevard yesterday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the anti-corruption campaign launched to oust President Chen Shui-bian (ÈôàÊ∞¥ÊâÅ). Rather than motivating supporters and leading participants to parade around the Presidential Office as it did […]
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