From Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Wednesday for a “broader Asia” partnership of democracies that would include India, the United States and Australia but leave out the region’s superpower, China. Abe’s comments came in an address to a joint session of India’s parliament, at the start of a high-profile visit that aims […]
Read MoreJoel Martinsen writes that Ta Kung Pao, a Beijing-funded newspaper in Hong Kong, ran an article that looked at how ‘academic egao’ “harms China’s desire to influence international affairs through soft power.” The author, “suggests that historical revisionism and opportunistic repudiation of traditional Chinese culture is an unwelcome trend that may have serious ramifications on […]
Read MoreLiu Wei writes a portfolio article for China Daily of Feng Xiaogang, a well-known Chinese comedy film director: Feng’s smash comedies on ordinary urbanites’ lives topped the domestic box office from 1997 to 99. His films also raked in most money from mainland theaters in 2001 and 2003. In 2006, his first attempt at a […]
Read MoreFrom S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, via ISN Security Watch: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has launched a series of personnel changes since June this year, the most notable case being the swap of posts between Lieutenant General Zhang Qinsheng (Á´†Ê≤ÅÁîü), deputy chief of General Staff of the PLA headquarters, and General Liu […]
Read MoreDanwei carried an interview video with Evan Osnos who is the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, from the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Danwei says that “Evan Osnos recently won the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for distinguished journalism for a series of articles about China’s Great Grab, subtitled ‘how China’s exploding appetite […]
Read MoreFrom China Security (Summer 2007): The expanding footprint in Africa of China’s national oil companies (NOCs) lies at the heart of concerns of many policy-makers and pundits in the United States and Europe. China’s deepening engagement with Africa is viewed as an erosion of their own interests and influence on the continent. The conventional wisdom […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: When Taiwanese government officials began publicly requesting that the US repeat the 1982 “Six Assurances” on the record in some manner, the issue was already lost. For starters, how reassured can anyone feel if the so-called “assurances” have to be dragged out from an otherwise unwilling source? Further, even if Taiwanese leaders […]
Read MoreA report from The Beijing News introduced more information on the trapped miners in Shandong. Photos from Xinhua. Translated by CDT: According to experts, the volume of stagnant water in the Huayuan mine is about 1269 cubic meters, which is equal to half of the Kunming Lake of the Summer palace. Technically, the entire work […]
Read MoreAfter food safety, toys quality, the conditions of Chinese factories are questioned. From The New York Times: China Labor Watch, which is based in New York, said that it investigated eight Chinese factories over the last year and discovered widespread labor violations, including the hiring of under-age workers, mandatory overtime, unsafe working conditions and managers […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily reports that in lieu of failed attempts to implement real-name registration for blogs, blog-hosting companies are now signing a “self-discipline pledge.”: More than ten major Chinese blog service providers have agreed to sign the “self-discipline code for blog services” drawn up by the Internet Society of China (ISC). …Real-name registration is only to […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Business Report: Nike has won lawsuits against two Chinese shoemakers and the local operations of a French supermarket chain over alleged illegal copying of its Air Jordan logo, a court official said Tuesday. The Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate Court awarded Nike Inc., the world’s largest sports apparel company, a total of 350 […]
Read MoreAn old man carrying cardboard boxes on a bicycle, via fengniao.com .
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via b92.net: China’s readers were given a taste of the Mao era, when at least five state newspapers published nearly identical front pages. The front pages published over the weekend are seen as the latest sign of tightening control ahead of a Communist Party meeting. All led with a story about China’s leaders […]
Read MoreSports Illustrated has published a lengthy story which interviews athletes, disgraced athletes, sports managers, and construction workers building the Olympic stadium about the run-up to the 2008 Games: In trying to understand sports, culture and life in China today, it’s tempting to grasp at the huge numbers: 1.32 billion people; seven million more cars on […]
Read MoreRelatives of trapped Chinese coal miners stormed the offices of the mining firm while rescue efforts go on. Click here to watch the video clips on BBC site. Also see this video about the rescue effort. According to China Energy Net, the death toll of mine disasters in 2006 is as high as 10,000, and […]
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