German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting China amid allegations that Chinese government computers have been responsible for attacks into computers in Merkel’s office. From Spiegel: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was all smiles after meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday, praising relations between the two countries as open and constructive. But her visit has been […]
Read MoreIt’s hard to forget the Space Race between America and the Soviet Union for almost two decades last century. Today China, Japan and even India all have their development plans of the moon. From the Economic Times: Japan claims its project is the biggest since Apollo. China says it is readying its probes to study […]
Read MoreFrom the DWNEWS.COM, translated by CDT: Pork supply is an important event for the Beijing Olympics. It’s said the pork supplier for the Beijing Olympics has set up 10 pig breeding centers located in different parts of China. However, the locations of the Olympic pig breeding centers are secret. Pigs there are monitored, only fed […]
Read MoreHere’s a socialist approach to cooling down the recent pork price surge. But it’s not quite working before it is bound to collapse. Translated from a compiled report by the Beijing News: More than 150 supermarket stores in western China’s Chongqing city made a bold move by binding together in a noble cause to reverse, […]
Read MoreHenry B is a former journalist and current associate creative director for a Minneapolis-based web media company. He published this highly entertaining post about traffic in Beijing on his So I’m Going To China blog: As I may have mentioned before, traffic in Beijing is its own art form. The city is adding thousands of […]
Read MoreFrom The New Republic: … China’s athletes, brought up in a disciplined system, probably never were the life of any Games. But the 2008 Olympics could be particularly brutal for them. Many athletes seem to benefit from local support–in Sydney, Australian athletes, loving the home crowd, turned in a staggering medal haul. But Australian politicians […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing Magazine: The bridge collapse accident in Fenghuang County, west of Hunan Province, stands out as a disastrous accident which grabs media attention across China. By last Friday, the death toll had reached 47, all of...
Read MoreBangladesh’s Daily Star published a commentary piece, written by freelance contributor Mahmood Elahi: By the end of 2006, China achieved several important milestones: It replaced the US as Japan’s biggest trading partner, it replaced Japan as America’s second biggest trading partner after Canada (for a brief period, it even replaced Canada as America’s biggest trading […]
Read MoreFrom Lowy Institute for International Policy website: … There is a clear risk that China and the US will be drawn into an escalating and mutually reinforcing cycle of responses to one another’s strategic nuclear developments. To preserve minimum deterrence in the face of US offensive and defensive developments, China is likely to expand the […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: The Chinese dissident Yang Jianli, who returned to his adopted home in the United States a week ago after five years in Chinese prisons, told The Post’s Nora Boustany that his experience “solidified my belief in what I do” and “made me a better person.” That’s a very courageous way to describe […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Guardian.co.uk: At least two people were injured and two detained when villagers and police clashed over a land dispute in northeastern China, a witness said Sunday. A newspaper reported one person was killed in the incident. Farmers in Yutian, a village in Heilongjiang province, set up roadblocks Saturday to protest a new […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via inquirer.net: Chinese cyber-dissident Lu Gengsong, a former lecturer turned activist, has been detained by police in eastern Zhejiang province , a rights watchdog group said Sunday. Lu, 51, was picked up at his home on Friday in the city of Hangzhou as part of a crackdown ahead of this year’s Communist party […]
Read MoreChina’s job market is probably getting tighter as quickly as the economy grows, thus the story. Translated from the Yangtze Evening News (Êâ¨Â≠êÊôöÊä•): In Binhai County (ʪ®Êµ∑) of Yancheng (ÁõêÂüé) in Jiangsu Province, the urban hygiene administration (ÁéØ¢ÉÂç´ÁîüÁÆ°ÁêÜÊâÄ) meant to create some job opportunities for relatives of its employees by hiring about 40 street-sweepers. But […]
Read MoreAlexandra A. Seno writes about China’s art revolution and patriotic works, from MSNBC: Revolution is sweeping China’s art world. In recent months, paintings extolling the communist victory of 1949 have emerged as the hottest genre in one of the world’s most exuberant art scenes. With an economy growing at some 11 percent a year and […]
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