The stream of tainted exports from China doesn’t seem to be slowing anytime soon. Toys, tires, toothpaste, and now fish. From the New York Times: In the latest move against Chinese imports, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday effectively blocked the sale of five types of farm-raised seafood from China because of repeated instances of […]
Read MoreRegulations for staff members of electricity companies will be announced by the central government at the end of June following four years of discussions and delays. From Caijing.com.cn: Employees of state-owned grid companies will soon be banned from further investing into power generation companies as a part of China’s new rules meant to create fair […]
Read MoreIn Beijing, where doctors advise exercising indoors, experts are concerned about the potential effects of the city’s air pollution on athletes competing in the 2008 Olympics. From Spiegel Online: Escaping to the relative comfort of a car’s interior won’t be an option for those traveling to Beijing in August 2008, when more than 10,000 athletes […]
Read MoreThe BBC reports that Hou Zhenrun, the owner of the mine where newspaper employee Lan Chengzhang was beaten to death in January, was sentenced to life in prison. SIx other mine employees were also sentenced: Five men were given sentences of between five to 15 years in jail for carrying out the attack, while another […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A careless relative of one farmer started a fire to clear what was left of their already-harvested field. Unfortunately, the wind fanned the flames and before long, the fire had spread to nearby unharvested fields. Farmers desperately cleared a path in front of the flames to halt their advance. They succeeded, but […]
Read MoreAs the New York Times reports that 900,000 tubes of toothpaste manufactured in China and poisoned with antifreeze have been distributed to hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, and some regular hospitals, the Chinese government defended the quality of the country’s exports. From AP: China insisted Thursday that the safety of its products was “guaranteed,” […]
Read MoreThe shocking images of Late Dian have spread on the Web. Andrew Leonard wrote a long commentary on his How the World Works column on Salon.com: …… a brilliant scholar named Yang Shen, originally a native of Sichuan, but forced to spend the last thirty years of his life in the frontier province of Yunnan. […]
Read MoreNetizens in China have long been posting online photos of local government buildings which seem excessively luxurious and grand for their purpose. Now the official media is getting in on the act. From China in Transition: In a post titled “You are a citizen, but also a journalist,” the popular online public forum tianya.cn asks […]
Read MoreFrom Open Democracy: Another shocking news story broke in China in June 2007. It was discovered that in Hongtong county, Shanxi province, people kidnapped from rural areas were being forced to work as slaves in a brick kiln. Horrifying television footage showed them after their chance rescue – they were filthy and emaciated, with their […]
Read MoreHu Jintao and other high-ranking leaders appear in a sea of white dress shirts, conspicuously sans the usual suits, at a Central Party School meeting on June 25. Xinhua, the government’s official press agency, interprets for its readers the higher message, running a story that both reports and comments on the mass wardrobe shift. CDT […]
Read MoreFrom China Brief: China released its much anticipated National Climate Change Program report on June 4, 2007. This plan comes at an important time, as nations are debating next steps in the international climate effort and China has likely just become the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. The majority of the policies described […]
Read MoreFrom London Review of Books: Contrary to their intention, commemorations of historical events are more often reminders of the power of forgetting: either official ceremonies that gradually lose their meaning, becoming public...
Read MoreCNN’s former Beijing bureau chief, now a blog evangelist cum journalism professor, writes on a question she recently posed to other attendees at the World Journalism Education Conference: Are blogs more important to China correspondents than they are to journalists working elsewhere? Her tentative answer is yes. Among her arguments: The China story in the […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: In 2003, while still serving as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, I was asked by Taiwanese reporters what the US view would be on the proposal for Taiwan to hold a national referendum in conjunction with the 2004 election. I gave a rather lengthy, rambling and convoluted answer that […]
Read MoreLet’s revisit the Xiamen PX event again. “It was a dramatic illustration of the potential of technology — particularly cellphones and the Internet — to challenge the rigorous censorship and political...
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