From Japan Focus: By Chinese standards, the city of Yanji is rather small, with a population of nearly 400,000. About a third of them are ethnic Koreans: Yanji is the capital of Yanbian autonomous prefecture in the northeastern province of Jilin, the ethnic home of the large Korean minority in the area. The prefecture is […]
Read MoreFrom Survival (September 2007): In the predawn darkness of 11 January 2007, a Chinese medium-range ballistic missile lifted off from a launch site at the Xichang space facility in Sichuan province. Fired from a mobile transporter-erector-launcher, the new two-stage, solid-fuelled missile – designated the SC-19 by the US intelligence community – carried a kinetic kill […]
Read MoreThe National People’s Congress passed the much-discussed Emergency Response Law today. From People’s Daily: Chinese officials will soon be legally obliged to provide accurate and timely information on public...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Foreign acquisitions of Chinese companies will be subject to stringent new checks intended to protect China’s economic security under a new law passed on Thursday. After 13 years on the drawing board, the Anti-Monopoly Law passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, winning 150 out of […]
Read MoreChina Media Project translated sections of a speech by Yuan Zhifa, the former editor of Guangming Daily, in which he philosophizes about the importance of “the guidance of public opinion” in news reporting: China generally avoids making a public display of its media control ideology and tactics, which have scant popular support. As the 17th […]
Read MoreWhile Lu Xun’s writing are being removed from high school reading lists in Beijing, the reading of kung fu romance novels of Jin Yong is promoted by authorities. From Travellers’ Tales – The FEER Blog: The more interesting question is, why now? Jin Yong‘s novels were once banned by the communists, apparently on the grounds […]
Read MoreFrom The China Blog – TIME: The people moving my stuff to Beijing are not the sort to let a few things go astray. So I should have expected this email that came yesterday: “Dear Austin, I got the information from the customs that due to the China not allowed to import Anti-Goverment books. So, […]
Read More“Abandoned Factory.” There are fewer younger workers. From SonyaÊêú‰Ω†‰∏´, via Flickr.
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: The Venetian resort and casino that opened here yesterday offers the same faux canals and Italian gondoliers that American visitors can find in the Las Vegas original. But the Chinese touches at the opening ceremony made it clear that this $2.4 billion Venetian was built for a very different audience. […]
Read MoreAP warns that the western sections of China’s Great Wall encountered the damage and “may disappear entirely in 20 years.” From MSNBC: …”Frequent storms not only eroded the mud, but also cracked the wall and caused it to collapse or break down,” Xinhua quoted archaeologist Zhou Shengrui as saying. One of the most threatened sections […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: China has ordered an immediate inspection of the wing slats on all Boeing 737 jetliners operated by domestic airlines in wake of an explosion that destroyed a China Airlines 737 in Japan last week. The China Airlines Boeing 737-800 exploded in a fireball on August 20 seconds after all 157 passengers and […]
Read MorePollution and shipping were thought to have caused China’s native white dolphin to go extinct, but researchers might have found one surviving dolphin. From the News Tribune: A white dolphin native to China’s Yangtze River that scientists declared extinct last year has possibly been spotted swimming in the wild, offering a small shred of hope […]
Read MoreEurope will decide whether or not to lift the tariff on Chinese light bulbs, deciding to meet the demand for more energy-saving bulbs at the cost of European manufacturing jobs. From the International Herald Tribune: European plans to lift tariffs on energy-saving light bulbs from China were put off for a year Wednesday as fears […]
Read MoreBBC reports that Cao Gangchuan, the vice chairman of Central Military Commission and Minister of National Defense of China, will visit Japan and “meet his newly-installed counterpart, Masahiko Komura, and inspect Japanese Self-Defence Force troops.” …His visit is the first by a Chinese defence minister in over nine years. It is being seen as a […]
Read MoreJournalist Taige Li expresses concern that while the government is taking measures to improve Beijing’s air quality for the Olympics next summer, there is no long-term plan to resolve China’s severe environmental problems, especially the water shortage in the rapidly expanding capital. From China Dialogue: It seems Beijing is revising its plans for improving air […]
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