As Hu Jintao visits Australia for the APEC meetings, The Australian runs a profile of the President and his policies: Mao Zedong’s class struggle is over. So is Deng Xiaoping’s “to get rich is glorious”. Confucius, whose philosophy praises harmony and who was earlier in the communist era denigrated as a feudalist, is back with […]
Read MoreA woman in Beijing holds her dog on the street, by Natalie Behring
Read MoreFrom China Daily: President Hu Jintao was expected to begin a state visit to Australia today. He is set to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and wrap up energy and mineral resources deals. He was scheduled to arrive in Perth later today and attend a banquet hosted by Western Australia’s Premier Alan Carpenter. […]
Read MoreJingsong Jiang, the doctor of Philosophy of Tsinghua University Institute of Science, Technology and Society, calls on vegetarianism and states that “meat production is not only cruel, but it also brings with it a host of threats to China’s – and the world’s – fragile ecology. If you want to go green, go veggie.” From […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Singapore Airlines and investment firm Temasek have bought a combined 24% stake in China Eastern Airlines. Singapore will pay 4.7bn Hong Kong dollars (¬£298m) for a 15.7% share in the carrier, with Temasek spending 2.5bn HK$ for a 8.3% share….[Full Text] [Image: Singapore is the world’s largest airline by market capitalisation, via […]
Read MoreWho will bear the responsibility of pirated online music in China? Businessweek says that “Chinese search engines make it easy to steal Net Tunes.” Eric Zhu is just the sort of customer that Western music labels want to reach in China. The 28-year-old Beijing resident is a sales director for a local company and enjoys […]
Read MoreShih-Fen S. Chen, “an international business professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business, at the University of Western Ontario,” states that “Companies that take full credit for product successes must accept just as much blame when things go wrong.” From ReportonBusiness.com: For years, consumers have been buying Chinese-made products bearing American brands. Many believe […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Ships, aircraft and submarines from four countries begin week-long war games in the Bay of Bengal on 4 September. It is the first flexing of muscles by the newly-formed “Quadrilateral Initiative”, which brings together the US, Japan, India and Australia. Singapore also has a small presence in the exercises. Many analysts see the […]
Read MoreTimes of India has posted an interview with Berkeley Professor Pranab Bardhan, in which he compares the different approaches toward development taken by India and China: Q: Looking at India and China, how do democracy and authoritarianism compare as systems that promote growth and development? A: lot of people impressed by China’s success say that […]
Read MoreFrom The Sydney Morning Herald: For 25 years the Chinese economy was mainly controlled by smart, tough, reform-minded leaders who deftly managed the contradictions of capitalism and dictatorship. And it took that long for these leaders to painfully establish their credibility. How long would it take the current crop of leaders to squander this policy […]
Read MoreWudou (Ê≠¶Êñó), or Armed Struggle, was the most destructive episode of the Cultural Revolution. Hundreds of thousands young Red Guards and ordinary people died in factional armed struggles across the country. In Chongqing, there is a public cemetery devoted to more than four hundred Red Guards from one faction who died during violent events between […]
Read MoreChina Daily reports that “Air China says joining with rivals is an option, as profit rises 240%,” via China.org: The mainland’s largest freight carrier Air China Ltd said yesterday it would not rule out the possibility of merging with rivals including China Southern Airlines to raise its competitiveness. Air China President Cai Jianjiang made the […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Beijing will ban all unlicensed catering outlets and celebrity-starred medical ads by the end of this year, according to the capital’s quality and food safety authorities. The city would focus its quality checkup on ten kinds of products, including food, drugs, home appliances and toys, said the municipal government when kicking off a […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Iwon.com: Selling shoes in the sweaty afternoon air of a West African market, Ousman Ka owes his job to China ” or, more precisely, to Lu Hui, the wrinkle-faced Chinese man in the blue sweater vest sitting behind him. “Before I was out of work, for about five years. Now I get […]
Read MoreYoutube carried a series of wonderful travel guides of China by Lonely Planet. The travel guides illustrate the culture and history of China and so on. Below is one of the video guides showing real Chinese food: [Click to see more series via Youtube]
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