Main Photo: Pollution in the sunset at Beijing Airport
Pollution in the sunset at Beijing Airport by cargocycling.
Read MorePension Reform in China: Progress and Prospects – Felix Salditt, Peter Whiteford and Willem Adema
From OECD website: China is currently in the process of building the largest pension system in the world, and it is doing this at a time of unparalleled economic and demographic transition. The 11th five-year plan (2006-2011) of the government has put the creation of a “harmonious society” as the ultimate goal of all its […]
Read MoreChina Cracks Down on Tainted Meat Sales – Scott McDonald
In the Year of the Pig, pigs are causing a lot of problems in China. From AP via The Washington Post: The Chinese government warned Friday that some of the country’s markets were selling tainted meat and threatened tough punishment against those behind the practice. China is fighting to overcome intense international criticism for exporting […]
Read MoreCredit Expert to China’s Banks: Widen Scope – Kate Williams
Currently, Chinese banks are in a transitional phase as the entire industry undergoes reform. Most recently, three senior Chinese government officials have recently been reassigned to head large commercial banks. From the Financial Times today, we learned that China Everbright Bank, the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China, are all assigned […]
Read MoreChina Fires Back Over Pollution Criticisms – AP
China calls itself the “world’s factory” in defense against a Dutch report that names it the world’s top CO2 emitter. From AP via CNN: Developed countries are hypocritical for criticizing China’s greenhouse-gas emissions while buying products from its booming manufacturing industry, the Chinese government said. The comments Thursday were aimed at defending the country’s environmental […]
Read MorePanel Discussion on Press Freedom and the Internet in China – RFA
From RFA Unplugged: …… over the last few years more and more Chinese have chosen to stay away from newspapers and magazines, and instead log on to the Internet for daily news. In our last program, we discussed how the Internet has helped Chinese citizens overcome information censorship imposed by the Chinese government and how […]
Read MoreMobilised by Mobile – Economist
Organized by text messages and internet chats, China’s middle classes are daring to protest, and giving the government a fright. From The Economist print edition: Information technology in China is once again making political waves. In the tropical seaport of Xiamen citizens still talk excitedly about how an anonymous text message on their mobile phones […]
Read MoreA Mystery in Beijing: Who Runs Military? – David Lague
Amid the Bush administration’s complaints of “a lack of transparency” surrounding China’s military strategies and doctrines, U.S. involvement with cross-strait relations makes it difficult for China to reveal too much, according to this story that looks into possible differences between PLA leadership and their civilian counterparts. From International Herald Tribune: As China converts its growing […]
Read MoreChina Weighs Whether to Send Troops into Darfur – Alfred de Montesquiou
An update on the pressure on China to contribute to the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, from AP via The Boston Globe: China’s special envoy on Darfur said yester day that his country will seriously consider whether to send troops on a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region and insisted Beijing is doing its best […]
Read MoreHow Revaluing The Yuan Would Help China – Peter Morici
From Asia Times: Not since the United States floated the dollar in the 1970s and threw the Bretton Woods system on the scrap heap of history has the management of exchange rates so captured the attention of economists and national politicians as China’s undervalued yuan does now. Then, as now, all manner of polemics and […]
Read MoreChina to Introduce Food Recall Framework – George Reynolds
Since the recent scandal of tainted food, toy, and medicine exports, the Chinese government has taken initiative to create a system of food recall to ensure greater safety. The question remains whether officials can effectively impose such a system considering its costliness as well as the tendency of some producers to skirt rules and cut […]
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Hong Kong Skyline by wenzday01. See CDT topic: Hong Kong Handover.
Read MoreHighlights of Hong Kong’s History – International Herald Tribune
To mark the 10 year anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China, The International Herald Tribune gives a great overview with Highlights of Hong Kong’s History that starts from China’s signing of the Nanjing Treaty and passing over Hong Kong to Great Britain in 1842, all the way to Donald Tsang’s election in March of […]
Read MoreProvincial Governor Apologizes for Chinese Slave Scandal – Scott McDonald (Updated)
After many days since the discovery of virtual slavery at brick kilns in Shanxi and other regions throughout China, a high CCP official has finally apologized. Many officials faced public criticism when pictures of them playing cards during the national crisis surfaced on the net. From SignonSandiego.com: The governor of a Chinese province at the […]
Read MoreUncovering The Brick Kiln Case: How It Started – Xu Ying
Henan TV reporter Fu Zhenzhong tells yWeekend the blow-by-blow of how he launched the Shanxi brick kiln investigation that exploded into a still-raging national controversy. Fu went undercover for much of the investigation, at one point stripping off his shirt and speaking in a Henan accent to pose as a parent in search of his […]
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