From Channelnewsasia.com: Many in Hong Kong consider press freedom as a trump card that distinguishes the Special Administrative Region from other Chinese cities. But ten years after the SAR’s handover to China, the role of the media in Hong Kong is changing. The city has more than 25 Chinese-language dailies and four English-language newspapers. As […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext.com: Having a hotline to the city mayor sounds like a good idea but the initiative has been panned by the public in a poll, with eighty percent of those surveyed giving a resolute thumbs down, according to a series of surveys conducted by the People’s Daily. Wuhan city in central China’s Hubei province […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: China’s leadership collectively decided to crack down on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989, the oldest daughter of late Chinese supreme leader Deng Xiaoping said Sunday. The daughter, Deng Lin, said that crushing the demonstrations in Beijing was the right thing to do because China would have been thrown into chaos […]
Read MoreAnalysts point out the similarities in China’s bull market to Japan’s situation that led to a financial crisis in 1990. One economist compares China to a “giant elephant riding a bicycle – it has to maintain a fast speed, otherwise it will crash.” From AP via insidebayarea.com: When financial crisis devastated its Asian neighbors a […]
Read MoreKarl Taro Greenfeld, author of China Syndrome, reviews Rob Gifford‘s China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power for the Los Angeles Times: Almost every reporter who has covered China has weighed doing the Big Journey-through-China-story, starting in the far west or extreme south and making one’s way by various squalid means […]
Read MoreFrom today’s The AustralianÔºö China seriously considered invading Hong Kong in the middle of talks with Margaret Thatcher in 1982, a former top Chinese official has disclosed. The Chinese were ready to resort to “requisition by force” if the negotiations had set off unrest in the colony, said Lu Ping, who later headed negotiations with […]
Read MoreTen years after the handover, politics in Hong Kong is increasingly influenced by Beijing. Here is an old face in the new cabinet. From BBC News: A leading pro-Beijing figure, Tsang Tak-sing, has been appointed to the Hong Kong government in a new cabinet announced on Saturday. The new government will be sworn in on […]
Read MoreDespite China’s efforts to reduce its energy consumption, officials are concerned that cheap steel and concrete production are damaging the environment. From CCTV.com: China’s top planning body has released figures showing rapid growth so far this year in several high-energy consuming and polluting industries. Statistics show more-than-20-percent growth rates for steel, construction materials, non-ferrous metal […]
Read MoreMilitary training, from *LJ*, via Flickr.
Read MoreDavid Barboza, the Shanghai-based business reporter for the New York Times, tells about his adventure as he tried to report on the factory that makes Thomas the Tank Engine toys. Barboza, his translator and a photographer were held inside the factory for nine hours while the local police were powerless to intervene: “You’ve intruded on […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: China will improve strategic environmental assessment procedures in key regions and industries after the suspension of a controversial paraxylene (PX) project in Xiamen , according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) . SEPA’s deputy director Pan Yue said “China will mobilize social forces to speed up strategic environmental assessment so that environmental […]
Read MoreJohn Kennedy at Global Voices provides extensive background on reports earlier today that a 90-year-old woman in the Zhejiang town of Shengzhou threatened police with a homemade gasoline bomb as violent protests erupted over her eviction. It appears the woman, Zhang Xinghua, is just one of dozens of residents resisting demolition of their building, which […]
Read MoreThis announcement from the official Xinhua news agency website is very short, and was just posted on netease.com today, translated by CDT: According to a Xinhua report from June 24, 2007, the draft law on responding to sudden incidents was reviewed on June 24 and made clear: No work unit or company or individual is […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Net, via netease.com: On June 18, I (the photographer) passed by Chuanshan Road, in Hengyang city of Hunan province. I saw this slogan on a public building. The slogan says: those who are involved in robbery and resisting arrest will be shot on the spot!” To see the full size photo of […]
Read MoreBritish newspaper The Guardian just published this editorial, arguing: “there is reason to believe that Beijing is shifting in Sudan from being an obvious part of the problem to a significant part of the solution, and that this is part of an important evolution in its wider foreign policy.” As the Darfur crisis drags into […]
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