Is the Internet changing China’s politics? Here is another commentary on information politics from China’s “most official” publication – People’s Daily Online: An article on China’s Internet politics, published recently in the Learning Times newspaper, has aroused much attention on the Internet. The article explains that Internet politics refers to the phenomenon that the public […]
Read MoreShocked by the virtual slavery practiced in some brick kilns in Shanxi, this commentary appeared on the official China Daily site: China’s reaction cannot be limited to moral condemnation and criminal penalties for those enslaving children and the underworld rings abducting the children from impoverished villages. The dark world of the Shanxi brick kilns reveals […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: Iraq ‘s leaders face major challenges in fixing the nation’s ailing oil-production system, a necessary part of any effort to fund its rebuilding. For help, they are turning to one of the world’s most voracious oil consumers: China. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani , set today to begin a weeklong trip […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: The first rule that many foreigners hear about doing anything in China is that you will need guanxi – relationships that help you clear the jungly bureaucracy, receive preferential tax treatment, or “free” land. Of course, the follow-up rule that is never stated in polite company is that guanxi means money, a greased […]
Read MoreCentral governments have always wanted to get rid of huge, bad debts, but there are no policies that clearly define what bad debts are exactly or how to deal with them. As a result, many local governments mix some high quality assets with bad ones, bankrupt them, and thus escape the loans from banks. From […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext.com: Two Chinese professors have been punished for plagiarism in their published papers, with the circulation of a notice of reproval. Beijing Times reported that the Regulatory Commission of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) issued a notice of criticism Wednesday for professors Ai Yong, from Wuhan University and Zhang Lianshun, from the […]
Read MoreA documentary about migrant workers in Shanghai, by filmmaker Christoph Tubbenthal, is now available online at link.tv. From the introduction: In modern day China millions of migrant workers are on the move to search for better living. Since labor in the rural areas is badly paid, many people are moving to big cities like Shanghai. […]
Read MoreChina’s economic-planning and environmental protection arms are again at odds on whether to continue the more-stringent auto-emissions standards as planned, said the Wall Street Journal. The National Development and Reform Commission said it wants to delay the implementation of the standards after the July 1 deadline, while the Environmental Protection Administration insisted that it will […]
Read MoreAs the Los Angeles Times reports that cough medicine which included a toxic ingredient that originated in China may be to blame for at least 67 deaths in Panama, Asia Times reports on the abundance of fake goods, including dinosaur bones, streaming out of China: There is something a bit geeky about faking dinosaur remains. […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China is in the middle of the last and most difficult restructuring of its large lenders: that of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) , a behemoth with nearly half a million employees, 27,000 branches and a stack of bad loans on its books. China has restructured four of its five state banks, […]
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Council of the United States website: The Atlantic Council of the United States and the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations organized the first “U.S.-China Energy Security Cooperation Dialogue,” held in Beijing on 31 October-1 November 2006. Conference participants included foreign policy analysts and energy experts from the U.S. and Chinese governments, international […]
Read MoreFrom China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly: Russia is the world’s second largest oil producer, after Saudi Arabia, and China the world’s second largest oil consumer, after the United States. While bilateral trade-flows are still small, there is great potential inherent in the relationship. Old hostilities have been put aside after the final settlement in 2004 […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China’s official media have refuted recent reports and official statements in the West that highlight major advances in Chinese military capabilities. Since the January 11 Chinese anti-satellite test that downed one of its own defunct weather satellites, there has been growing coverage and speculation on China’s space weapons, ballistic-missile developments, the new […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: People are increasingly talking about “the second-generation rich” as family wealth is passed down to grown children by parents who got rich by taking advantage of the government’s policy of “letting some people get rich first” in the late 1970s and early 1980s. People are also growing increasingly concerned about “the second-generation […]
Read MoreFrom Global Viewpoint: Several years ago, Samuel Finer, a distinguished professor of politics at Oxford, wrote a three-volume history of government. He set out to describe every form of government that has ever been. There was one short chapter on societies that were liberal but not democratic. The only example he could think of was […]
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