From AP via The International Herald Tribune: The World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation Friday into U.S. and Mexican allegations that China is providing illegal subsidies for a range of industries, officials said. The two countries accuse Beijing of using WTO-prohibited tax breaks to encourage Chinese companies to boost exports, while imposing tax and […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A few weeks before the five-yearly Communist party congress, Beijing is awash with lists speculating on the new leadership group that will emerge from the meeting in mid-October to take charge of the country until 2012. The nine-member leadership inner circle is not revealed until the end of the congress, when the […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: Money has brought both trappings and trouble for Norman Hsu. Major contributions to the campaigns of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other candidates have made the apparel executive an insider in elite political circles. He shows up in cozy pictures with politicians, at lavish fundraising events, and on the boards […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Taiwan’s ruling party is trying to force its presidential candidate, Frank Hsieh, to commit himself to a more radical pro-independence line, limiting his flexibility to pursue a less confrontational relationship with China. The Democratic Progressive party‘s central executive committee on Thursday backed a resolution that demands Taiwan should adopt a new constitution […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s quality watchdog on Friday introduced the nation’s landmark recall systems for unsafe food products and toys amid efforts to improve product safety. The two regulations, following the introduction of recall system for defective automobiles in 2005, went into effect on Friday. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (AQSIQ) stated […]
Read MoreFrom Issue 40 of the China Review: Numerical expansion in Chinese Christianity in the last couple of decades has occurred at an unprecedented rate. A rate which continues to surprise and alarm some of those observing it. It’s surprising partly because of the ambiguous history of Christianity in China, a history marked both by a […]
Read MoreOn August 21, Zhou Wenzhong (周文重), Ambassador of China to the United States, gave a presentation on China and the United States to the World Affairs Council of Oregon. Video of the event is now available on FORA.tv:
Read MoreFrom Slate: Whenever Russian and Chinese officials shake hands, Washington takes notice, and renewed concern over a potential anti-Western Sino-Russian axis gains fresh momentum. The annual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Moscow- and Beijing-dominated Central Asian security forum, generated headlines earlier this month when special guest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the occasion […]
Read MoreA child begs for money in Beijing, by zdzarski.junior
Read MoreThe video below shows that three young men playing breakdance and Beijing acrobats together with the dough at Mr. Pizza restaurant at Wudaokou in Beijing, by tigerbalm06 and via Youtube:
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: The Great Wall of China , built to withstand raiding hordes from the steppes, is now in peril from a far more insidious threat: sandstorms generated by desertification in the country’s north-west. The Great Wall of China, built to withstand raiding hordes from the steppes, is now in peril from a far […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States. But delegates at U.N. climate change talks in Vienna said on Thursday birth control is unlikely to find favor as a major policy tool, partly because of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via SignOnSanDiego.com: Sweeping majorities of Americans say U.S. consumers, companies and the government deserve at least some blame for the rash of unsafe products from China, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Thursday. With the tally of Chinese goods bearing high levels of chemicals and toxins growing almost daily, people in the […]
Read MoreAfter a visit to Tibet, geologist Fred Schwab writes in Geotimes Magazine about the region’s potential as a renewable energy powerhouse, yet he worries that “China’s push to develop Tibet may irreparably damage it”: Following our visit, we returned to “Interior” China and spoke to classes at our son’s university about our Tibet experiences and […]
Read MoreProfessor M.D. Nalapat is vice-chair of the Manipal Advanced Research Group, UNESCO Peace Chair, and professor of geopolitics at Manipal University. He wrote on UPI Asia Online: Military strategists in India raise their blood pressure levels by pointing to China’s “encirclement” of the country through an archipelago of military and intelligence assets around the periphery […]
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