ESWN has translated an article in Southern Weekend which gives a history of the illegal brick kilns in Shanxi Province: There are not a lot of village enterprises in Caosheng village, so most of the able-bodied young people go outside to find work, or else they dig coal in the nearby coal mines. The brick […]
Read MoreIn preparation for a meeting in Paris on Monday of key players in the Darfur crisis, China’s envoy to Sudan is traveling to Khartoum: China will send more than 200 troops to Sudan’s Darfur region to help a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force, its special envoy said in Khartoum on Friday. “The government is […]
Read MoreA group of radical students in Pakistan kidnapped seven Chinese citizens from a massage parlor in Islamabad and accused them of running a brothel. All of the the hostages were later released. From CBSNews.com: Dozens of students had seized nine people (including two Pakistanis) from a massage parlor in an upscale neighborhood of Islamabad shortly […]
Read MoreAP reports on a protest by 20,000 people angered over the forced eviction of a 90-year-old woman in southern China: A 90-year-old woman stood on the roof of her home with a homemade bomb to avoid being evicted, while thousands of protesters defending her clashed with police in southeastern China, a human right monitor and […]
Read MoreFrom Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website: Summary: Although it is often argued that China’s recent antisatellite weapon test was a protest against U.S. space policies, Beijing’s counterspace programs are actually part of a considered strategy designed to counter the overall military capability of the United States. In preparing to cope with America’s overwhelming conventional […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: The “inner-party democracy theory”, which advocates substituting general political democracy with inner-party democracy, is one of the political reform paths that attract most followers. One should not be overly optimistic if inner-party democracy is set as the priority goal of Chinese political reform, but any attempt towards constitutional democracy other […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: The north of Thailand remained little more than a collection of sleepy villages for decades. Today, the region resembles a burgeoning metropolis ” a metropolis in China. With trade booming, it has become a way station for ships delivering Chinese apples, mobile phones and other items. In the Thai city of […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Taiwan’s Kuomintang party candidate Ma Ying-jeou announced Vincent Siew as his running mate for next year’s presidential election. “Taiwan’s situation is tough and it faces challenges,” Siew said in the Taiwanese dialect at a press conference held by Ma in Taipei. “We need someone with experience.” Siew, 68, was premier of Taiwan from […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: China is transforming Africa, for good and ill. The United States and other traditional trading and aid partners of Africa need to help Africans craft policies that welcome Chinese investment and trade but condemn the taking of African jobs and the destruction of African industries. Africa and the West also need […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential blog: EDITOR’S NOTE: The debating society Intelligence Squared US held a session last month on the motion: “Beware the dragon: A booming China spells trouble for America.” Bill Gertz spoke for the motion. Excerpts of his remarks follow. Gertz, 55, is a defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times and […]
Read MoreChina’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has revoked the right of two local TV stations to run commercial advertisements in what it says in an effort to crackdown on the broadcasting of bogus claims, particularly in medical ads. Danwei interprets the bans as a kill-chicken-to-frighten-monkeys move: The administration has been tightening its truth-in-advertising […]
Read MoreColumnist Lian Yue writes in the Southern Metropolis Daily about the Shanxi brick kilns and other examples of the “plight of the struggling masses,” translated by ESWN: So far, you have only seen the beginning. According to the recollections and descriptions of some people, the “coerced labor” in the Shanxi brick kilns have traversed more […]
Read MoreThe deputy director of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, Xie Zhenhua, recently expressed doubts the country would meet its energy conservation targets. The culprit: Unrestrained growth in energy-intensive industries like construction, steel and chemicals. According to the state-run English-language daily, the former SEPA head made his comments in an online interview: Xie said some […]
Read MoreChina Daily continues its reporting on Shanxi brick kilns: The parents of more than 400 missing children have posted a second joint letter online, urging authorities to step up their efforts to rescue slave workers across the country. “The slavery case in Hongtong County that caused a great stir in the country is only the […]
Read MoreAn update on rising pork prices, from Jongo News: The Ministry of Finance said on Friday the government will subsidize insurance payments for pig farmers to protect the industry from collapsing in the event of disease outbreaks, and to stabilize rising pork prices. The ministry will also spend 470 million yuan ($61.7 million) to subsidize […]
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