From Reuters: Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China’s censors have him fomenting discontent about China’s “Great Firewall”. Yang’s fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his friend’s holiday snaps on Flickr.com , due to access restrictions by censors after images […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s new Enterprise Income Tax law , passed by the National People’s Congress on March 8, should have surprised no one. Beijing had long telegraphed its intention to unify the disparate tax rates paid by foreign-invested and domestic companies, with the former paying as little as 15 per cent and Chinese enterprises […]
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Sichuan Changhong Electric Co. said Monday that Microsoft Corp. plans to take a small strategic stake in the firm, sending the Chinese television maker’s shares sharply higher. The two companies also signed a memorandum of understanding for a project called Media Galaxy, through which they will cooperate on research, development and […]
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reporter Gordon Fairclough interviewed one of the victims of the Shanxi Brick Kiln forced labor case and published a detailed story on how Li Yaokai, one of the first abducted children to “give an extended interview to the foreign press”, got kidnapped at Zhengzhou Railway Station and was transported to Shanxi […]
Read MoreThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently held the seventh debate in the Carnegie’s Reframing China Policy Series. Dan Blumenthal of the American Enterprise Institute, Bates Gill of the Center for Strategic Studies, and Carnegie’s Michael Swaine debated the topic, “Is China at present (or is it becoming) a responsible stakeholder in the international community?”: […]
Read MoreFrom Spot-On: Exciting news: a pal’s become a pawn of Chinese “democratic” reforms. I got word a couple weeks ago from the small city of Langfang, an hour’s drive from Beijing. There this friend heads up a division of the city’s livestock department. She also belongs to the Jiu San Society, one of eight little-known […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: Why should we develop grassroots democracy? If we carefully observe changes taking places in China’s grassroots society, especially of the new pattern emerging in the grassroots organizations, we should be able to see that developing grassroots democracy is actually a practical requirement resulting from the profound transformations of the grassroots […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes, via Taiwan Security Research: China has been courting its neighbors, and although the Chinese did not coin the phrase ‘soft power’, they have exercised it with consummate skill. Only the United States and Japan have expressed concern and asked China what its intentions are regarding its increased military spending and its firing of […]
Read MoreChinese activist Hu Jia recently updated his blog with a post on the status of Chen Guangcheng (ÈôàÂÖâËØö), the celebrated Blind Lawyer who was arrested and imprisoned last year after exposing gross abuse of China’s birth-control policy by officials in Shandong Province. Hu’s information appears to come from Chen’s wife, Yuan Weijing, who apparently visited […]
Read MoreSeveral new videos on YouTube, “Glimpses of China,” by jiangbaojiding highlight the history and contemporary beauty of China’s largest cities. The video below is entitled “Glimpses of a Disappearing Tianjin, China’s third largest city with a population of about 11 million.” Over the past year, Tianjin’s Haihe River has become increasingly polluted, an environmental condition […]
Read MoreAs China’s share of the U.S. toy market has grown, so have the number of “made-in-China” toys that have had to have been recalled for safety hazards. From the New York Times: China manufactured every one of the 24 kinds of toys recalled for safety reasons in the United States so far this year, including […]
Read MoreWan Maomao Frozen Foods sold over one ton of intentionally misdated dumplings before Chinese authorities began an investigation. No one was harmed by eating the two-year-old dumplings, but Chinese authorities have also discovered other factories that are producing dumlings with excessive chemical additives. From the Houston Chronicle: A company in eastern China was ordered to […]
Read MoreA digitally manipulated photo of a street in Chengdu, by earth2marsh
Read MoreNow, this highway is really going high. From AP: China will build a $20 million blacktop highway on Mount Everest as part of the route for the Olympic torch relay, state media reported Tuesday. Xinhua News Agency said the construction would turn a rough, 67-mile road stretching from the foot of the mountain to a […]
Read MoreThis article is from Southern Metropolitan News. Thanks to Hegel Chong’s translation on his Reading China blog: Over th past 15 years, Wu Lihong has been complaining about the pollution of Tai Lake. In 2005, he was selected as the outstanding environmentalist of China. But he was arrested for fraudulent recently. He was accused of […]
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