From Reuters: A Chinese activist who fought forced evictions and was jailed for two years for disturbing court order has died hours after he was released on medical parole, a New York-based human rights watchdog said on Friday. Shanghai authorities had repeatedly rejected applications by Chen Xiaoming’s family to release him on parole for treatment […]
Read MoreA different take on exchange rate and trade deficit reality from two experts writing in the Christian Science Monitor: It’s true that low-wage Chinese workers have taken jobs from Americans and that cheap Chinese imports have pumped up the trade deficit. But three other factors explain the state of US-Chinese trade: ‚Ä¢The low savings rate […]
Read MoreA long-time China watcher argues that worldwide shock over tainted Chinese food exports is symptomatic of outsiders’ willful naivete in the face of Chinese growth: Why does this surprise us? After all, “capitalism with Chinese characteristics” has been a chaotic free-for-all for some time. Roughly 75% of China’s food is now produced by small, private, […]
Read MoreFollowing photos are posted in many Chinese BBS recently. These pictures were taken at “strike hard” campaign executions, but not from the same event. [Photo link]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Post: China has abandoned its Canadian energy strategy out of frustration with federal policy and with the country’s oilsands producers, turning its attention instead to “friendly Venezuela” as a way to feed new Chinese refineries. A senior executive with state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), Asia’s largest company, said CNPC has scrapped […]
Read MoreThe International Herald Tribune looks at the career of Zheng Xiaoyu, the State Food and Drug administrator who was recently executed for corruption: The rise and fall of Zheng offers a rare glimpse inside China’s flawed regulatory system. He started out as an idealistic reformer. Concerned about China’s unsafe drug supply, he lobbied for the […]
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Read MoreNewsweek is the latest to look into the recent food scares originating in China: It may seem hard to remember now, but just a few years ago, pundits and the global press were marveling at how quickly China had come on as a major manufacturing export power able, or so the thinking went, to build […]
Read MoreFrom The China Confidential blog: Voice of America (VOA) reported Thursday that an American official accused China of failing to do all it should to stop militarily significant supplies from reaching Iran, even though China voted for United Nations sanctions aimed at preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. Ambassador Don Mahley, who is Deputy Assistant […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing.com.cn: On a visit to Beijing, Russian energy minister Viktor Khristenko said a price debate is at the center of Sino-Russian talks aimed at securing natural gas and oil for China.High prices paid by Europeans for Russian natural gas are complicating ongoing energy negotiations between China and Russia, although Moscow’s energy minister is upbeat […]
Read MoreFrom Treehugger.com: When used computers, televisions and other electronic products are ready to go up to that big scrap heap in the sky, they often end their journeys lying in some large landfill in China. Indeed, over the last decade, China has quickly become the de facto repository for developed countries’ discarded electronics, known collectively […]
Read MoreFrom People.com.cn: The investor tide is starting to recede a fraction in the Chinese A-share market with the number of people opening accounts dipping below 100,000 for the seventh consecutive day. Statistics from China Securities Depository and Clearing Co. Ltd. show that only about 79,500 new accounts were registered on Tuesday in the A-share market, […]
Read MoreFrom Earthtimes.org: India’s leading private mobile phone service operator Reliance Communications (RCOM) on Thursday awarded a contract worth more than 200-million-dollars to China’s telcom solutions major Huawei for expanding its network in the country. “Under the agreement, Huawei would supply and provide deployment services for CDMA and GSM base stations, including Base Services Centres and […]
Read MoreAnother entry to the list of questionable food products in China: cardboard-filled steamed buns. A Beijing TV undercover crew filmed a baozi factory that was making pork dumplings using cardboard filler: The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground. “What’s in the recipe?” the reporter asks. […]
Read MoreFrom Pew Internet & American Life Project website: There are now an estimated 137 million internet users in China, second in number only to the United States, where estimates of the current internet population range from 165 million to 210 million. The growth rate of China’s internet user population has been outpacing that of the […]
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