Newsweek interviews Jimmy Lai of Hong Kong’s Next Media empire. When asked how things have gone for press freedom in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover, Lai responds: Beautifully. The press has been free. But a lot of the media has gone into self-censorship, either because they’re so afraid or purely for economic considerations. They […]
Read MoreFrom Channelnewsasia.com: Thousands of protesters accusing a brewery in southwest China of polluting water supplies clashed with armed police, a human rights group said on Sunday, the latest violence sparked by environmental worries. Several thousand residents in Sichuan province took to the streets to protest contamination of drinking and irrigation water by China Resources Breweries […]
Read MoreEven if China has taken actions to save its image after a series of tainted Chinese goods, it still faces the international pressure. From The New York Times: …”This is a very concerted effort to show they are doing something,” said Russell Leigh Moses, a longtime political analyst based in Beijing. “They are using work […]
Read MoreABC News carried the report that “police in northern China have arrested four Catholic priests who refused to join the state-controlled Catholic Church.” From AFP via ABC News: Liang Aijun, 35, Wang Zhong, 41, and Gao Jinbao, 34 – all from Hebei province – were transferred to an undisclosed location after their capture, the Cardinal […]
Read MoreFrom Comparative Connections (Center for Strategic & International Studies): The April 11-13 visit of China’s Premier Wen Jiabao proved to be a public diplomacy success. Wen met with Prime Minster Abe, and, focusing on environmental cooperation, both leaders agreed to advance their strategic relationship. Wen addressed the Diet, a historic first; engaged early morning Tokyo […]
Read MoreFrom Global Viewpont: The Chinese government’s execution of the country’s former chief food and drug regulator last week is intended to send a strong message, both to warn its officials and to reassure the international community that Beijing is taking decisive steps to make its food and drugs safe. This proverbial act of “slaughtering a […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website: On Jan. 11, 2007, a Chinese medium-range ballistic missile slammed into an aging weather satellite in space. The resulting collision not only marked Beijing’s first successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test but, in the eyes of many, also a head-on collision with the Bush administration’s […]
Read MoreReuters reported the good news for China’s pandas: The animal’s droppings were recently discovered in areas beyond its known habitat in the bamboo forests of the 220,000 hectare (550,000 acre) Baishuijiang Nature Reserve, on the border of Gansu and Sichuan provinces. “This indicates an expansion of the giant panda’s habitat — and probably of its […]
Read MoreFrom ANI, via China National News: Hollywood’s most visible film director, Steven Spielberg , is considering resigning his position as artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing unless China does more to distance itself from the genocide in Darfur . Spielberg has been working for several months to help put together the opening […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press via The News tribune: Mine runoff spilled into a central Chinese river, temporarily cutting off drinking water to more than 200,000 people, a state news agency reported. The runoff from a lead-zinc mine polluted the Zijiang river in Hunan province on Thursday, cutting off supplies to the riverside city of Lengshuijiang and […]
Read MoreReuters looks at Hu Jintao’s first five years in power and concludes that his influence is limited by a continuing power struggle with his predecessor, Jiang Zemin: Hu, the country’s fourth-generation leader after Mao, Deng and Jiang, is the first among equals in the Standing Committee but his power is not absolute and he is […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports that a recent plea from Propaganda chief Li Changchun to Hu Jintao to close down Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, which had published an article criticizing the Party’s monopoly on power, was...
Read MoreYan Lianke, one of China’s most distinguished writers, lives in Henan. This profile is from today’s Australian: Yan, 49, has won China’s top two literary honours – the Lu Xun award in 1997 and 2001, and the Lao She in 2004. He has published numerous novels and short story collections and three of his books, […]
Read MoreFrom New York University, Law & Economics Research Paper Series, via NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository: Abstract: China’s legislators are debating the enactment of an anti-monopoly law. The pending draft legislation would prohibit abuse of administrative monopoly. Administrative abuses are provincial and local measures that discriminate against and burden goods and services from other provinces and […]
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