The Los Angeles Times reports on a letter signed by 17 former top officials and conservative Marxists who accuse the Communist Party of “going down an evil road”. A scholar of Party history is quoted as saying this may be the first time so many high-ranking people have joined together to speak out: The letter […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Internet users and company officials in China on Wednesday blamed a series of disruptions to cross-border email traffic on adjustments to the country’s vast Internet surveillance system. IT company executives offered varying explanations for the email disruptions, but agreed they were not a result of standard technical problems. China is in the midst […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: China and the U.S. will meet later at the end of the month to discuss the safety of China’s seafood exports, an official said Wednesday, while news reports said tires that were the subject of a huge U.S. recall were found to meet American safety standards. Meanwhile, Philippine authorities said they were […]
Read MoreFrom AP via IHT: China’s official sports association has issued an unprecedented public criticism of Yao Ming for reporting late to national team training. The Houston Rockets’ star was faulted for taking too much time off to recover from his last NBA season, as well spending too much time planning his wedding and making appearances […]
Read MoreFrom Orlando Sentinel: Christianity in China has come a long way since 1870. That was the year that violent Chinese mobs in the city of Tianjin, enraged by rumors that French missionaries were kidnapping babies, massacred every Christian they could get their hands on. In those days, China’s citizenry saw Christianity as a tentacle of […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal: Since the end of the Cold War, some 181 million people have left their homes to find opportunities elsewhere in the world, not only from the poor nations to the rich, but from the poor to the less poor nations. This movement is fluid, its impact not confined to individual nations. And perhaps […]
Read MoreAs the Bush administration acknowledges that their efforts to contain Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s remote Northwest Frontier Province have floundered, Foreign Policy in Focus reports on China’s role in the region:...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: When the world looks back at the troubles of Maoism in China, attention usually focuses on the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, in which millions were persecuted and society all but collapsed, or on the famine induced by the Great Leap Forward of 1959-62, when somewhere between 20 million and […]
Read MoreFrom San Francisco Chronicle: On the surface, Xu Jinglei’s blog may seem run of the mill, one of the millions of online diaries that have permeated the Internet in recent years. She coos over her cats, complains about feeling cranky and dishes about her social life. But while most personal blogs attract a handful of […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Almost 3m members of China’s ruling Communist party work for private companies, after a four-year drive to tighten ties with the fast-growing sector. The push by the world’s largest political organisation has resulted in 80 per cent more party organisations in non-state enterprises, state media said on Tuesday. In 2002 there were […]
Read MoreFollowing a bar on new internet cafes, a new regulation encourages underage gamers at internet cafes to stop playing and “do suitable physical exercise.” From eFluxMedia: Chinese authorities are targeting a national...
Read MoreWhile Shanghai plans to develop wetlands, other wetlands are drying up. From AP via MSNBC: Less water flows down China’s two biggest rivers now than 40 years ago because global warming is drying up the wetlands that feed them, a state news agency reported Monday, citing Chinese scientists. Xinhua News Agency said scientists of the […]
Read MoreAdding to the list of human rights offenses, activists cite Chinese government’s treatment of North Korean refugees as a reason to boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympics. From Reuters via Guardian Unlimited: U.S. human rights activists urged people not to travel to Beijing to see the 2008 Olympics unless China grants the U.N. refugee agency access […]
Read MoreA group of women washes clothes in murky river water, from miscellaneous chemistry via Flickr.
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: China witnessed an explosion of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) over the past year, and an independent analysis shows domestic-only deals have become the dominant force for M&A in China. The analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a global accounting firm, revealed a surge of domestic activity driving the growth of China’s M&A. Meanwhile, foreign investment […]
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