From PacNet Newsletter of Pacific Forum CSIS, via Taiwan Security Research: Frank Hsieh Chang-ting has been nominated by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as their presidential candidate. Many in Taipei now believe he has a good chance of winning the election, assuming he does not withdraw as he has said he would if indicted on […]
Read MoreFrom In These Times: Pirated translations of Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People are available on most Chinese street corners, and it would appear Chinese Communist Party officials have picked up a few copies. Maoist China used to assert itself on the world stage by exporting revolution, waging wars, funding insurgents and […]
Read MoreSanya, a Chinese city boasting several well-known beach resorts and host to the Miss World contest, will soon have a “green” luxury community. From Multi-Housing News: In a partnership with Tiafeng, a China-based developer, Kevin Kennon Architect PC (KKA) has announced his role as design architect of a luxury, mixed-use development in Sanya, a town […]
Read MoreFrom Far Eastern Economic Review: From the vantage point of 1998, or even 2002, it would have been impossible to foresee the degree of global attention the lowly-valued Chinese yuan generates today. Over the past few years, U.S. taxpayers have paid millions of dollars to finance a seemingly endless series of hearings on the mainland […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s foreign-exchange reserves, the world’s largest, climbed to a record $1.33 trillion at the end of June, increasing pressure on the government to allow faster yuan gains. “China’s foreign reserves are too big and mopping up the liquidity that fuels inflation and asset bubbles is an administrative headache,” said Simon Derrick, chief currency […]
Read MoreChina’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued a statement that bans factories from using diethylene glycol in toothpaste, when a month ago Chinese officials ridiculed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for “unscientifically” warning consumers about the diethylene glycol. From Forbes: China banned diethylene glycol – a thickening agent in antifreeze – […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The United States and China have signed an aviation agreement that will double commercial passenger departures by 2012 and allow unlimited cargo flights between the two countries, according to a Transportation Department news release. The pact was signed Monday by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and Minister of Civil Aviation Yang […]
Read MoreLess expensive cars made in China are edging their way into the European car market. From the International Herald Tribune: Paradoxically, the Chinese have been helped in Europe by their alliances with Western automakers in China. Some of the Chinese cars being imported to Europe use electrical components from Bosch, the big German auto parts […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, reeling from a series of health scandals, has ordered video surveillance at blood collection centers across the country in a bid to stamp out a persistent black market trade, state media reported on Wednesday. The order comes after six people were jailed for illegally soliciting blood from migrant workers in the southern […]
Read MoreEnglish language blogs are reporting on the closure of the Chinese language version of the China Development Brief, which monitors the work of foreign NGOs and aid groups working in China. From the Time China blog: Authorities in Beijing last week moved to close a publication that covers foreign aid and nongovernmental organizations, its founder […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Examiner.com: A Chinese military surgeon who broke government secrecy to reveal the true scale of Beijing’s SARS outbreak in 2003 has been banned from leaving China to accept a human rights award, a rights watchdog said Wednesday. Jiang Yanyong, 76, was praised as an “honest doctor” by Chinese media after he wrote […]
Read MoreFollowing family planning riots and accounts of forced abortions, a spokesperson from the National Population and Family Planning Commission explains China’s one-child policy, downplaying its severity, and announces that single-child parents can have a second child. From Jongo News: Less than 40 percent of the population is restricted by the family planning policy to having […]
Read MoreChina animal lovers protest eating cats. Here, a cat is kept in a cage among poultry. Photo by DCF_pics.
Read MoreFrom Kotaku via CNET News: In a classic example of ‘missing the forest for the trees,’ the Chinese government has banned undead skeletons from World of Warcraft, insisting they be covered up with flesh. The9, the Chinese company that holds the license to operate WoW in China, complied with the order, as well as the […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Washington Post: China has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year’s Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday. The government launched “a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians” in February dubbed Typhoon No. 5, said the China Aid Association, […]
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