From The Wall Street Journal: In the Bush administration’s “good cop-bad cop” approach to trade relations with the Chinese government, yesterday was a “bad cop” day. As expected, the government said it would file a pair of cases in the World Trade Organization against China aimed at piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. intellectual property. U.S. […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The International Herald Tribune: The newly elected leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party will visit China by the end of this month, a senior member of the party said Monday. Wu Poh-hsiung, elected Saturday as chairman of the Nationalist Party, is expected to visit China with other party officials for a meeting […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: The visit to Tokyo this week by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao marks the latest step in what appears to be a remarkable turnaround in the China-Japan relationship. Under former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who sparked outrage in China with his visits to Yasukuni Shrine – a potent symbol of […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online (photo: Peking University president Xu Zhihong, via Spiegel.com): Education is once again highly valued in China, with the Communist Party leadership aiming to make the country one of the most scientifically advanced in the world. But achieving that goal would require giving students more freedom to exercise their creativity — and less […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: As news of a visit to Henan Province by Politburo member and top propaganda official Liu Yunshan was pegged to the top of one of Beijing’s leading Internet portals today, the message, buried deep in a pile of Party shibboleths about the “scientific view of development” and “advanced Socialist culture”, was […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Globe and Mail: A Chinese roadside sausage seller was given a suspended death sentence on Tuesday for slitting a government inspector’s throat in a case that gripped the nation and highlighted a yawning wealth gap. Cui Yingjie (Â¥îËã±Êù∞), 23, killed Li Zhiqiang with a fruit knife in suburban Beijing last August […]
Read MoreFollowing Chinese news clip is from CTV, reported by Chen Wenqian (城管): On the same subject, here is an satire video entitled “The Urban Management Force Desperately Need New Equipments” on YouTube. (in...
Read MoreA translation of a Southern Metro Daily’s opinion piece (Chinese) by Bi Shuzhi (ÊØï‰π¶‰πã), from EastSouthWestNorth blog (photo on media as a watchdog over government, via people.com.cn): State Production Safety...
Read MoreA sadder version of the rich selling off their used Gucci bags on Ebay, this time a former Chinese marathoner, Ai Dongmei (ËâæÂܨʢÖ) has no choice but to raise funds to survive, by putting all her medals for grabs, via EastSouthWestNorth blog (photo: the collection of all of Ai’s medals, via ESWN): My lawsuit has […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press, via The Los Angeles Times: China’s anti-satellite test in January increased the country’s military threat to Taiwan by demonstrating a limited ability to blind the U.S. satellites that would be deployed in defense of the island, according to a report by an independent private research group to be released today. “The […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Citibank N.A. of the US has agreed to acquire Taiwan’s Bank of Overseas Chinese (BOOC) for 14.1 billion Taiwan dollars (426 million US dollars), BOOC said Monday. Citibank will acquire all 1.194 billion outstanding shares in BOOC at 11.8 dollars per share through its subsidiary Citibank Overseas Investment Corp, the Taiwanese bank said […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: China’s national broadcaster has started filming a 40-part series on Bruce Lee, part of an apparent bid to promote Chinese culture in the run-up to next year’s Beijing Summer Olympics. China Central Television started shooting “The Legend of Bruce Lee” over the weekend in Shunde in Guangdong province in southern […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Sun: A Chinese bureaucrat who broke the country’s single-child regulations not once but four times has become the latest cadre to pay the price for not having devoted enough attention to his mistress.
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet, via CCTV International: Chinese and Pakistani officials Monday unveiled the first Confucius Institute in the National University of Modern Language, Islamabad. The institute forms part of China’s efforts to better promote Sino-foreign language and cultural exchanges.
Read MoreA silk factory in Shanghai. via ess.washington.edu.
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