From Reuters: China will limit the building of man-made islands to help protect the marine environment and will ensure that any islands built are not too close together and do not affect shipping, a state newspaper said on Friday. Noting that artificial islands can help solve tight land supply problems in the country’s booming and […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: …… As a result, the introduction of industrial agriculture raises difficult questions about the status of land ownership in rural China. This has become an explosive issue in recent years as property has been seized to make way for factories and apartments. If farmers are bullied off their land to make way […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China has denied responsibility for several pet deaths in the United States which U.S. authorities blame on a batch of chemically contaminated wheat gluten from China, state media reported. But differing statements on whether China has even exported wheat gluten to the U.S. revealed confusion that points to serious problems in the regulation […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia, via New Century News, translated by David Kelly: After 13 years’ struggle and following a hard labour, the PRC’s Property Law was eventual delivered, and was doubtless an important historic...
Read MoreFrom Chongqing Morning Post, via ChinaNews.com: Police Armored Vehicles used for the first time in the streets of Chongqing. [Full text in Chinese] The background advertising billboards read: “TOSHIBA”,...
Read MorePacific Times on KQED had a report tonight about U.S.-China relations: Capitalists see China, with its 1.3 billion people, as a market hungry for goods and services. But it’s also a source of worry for those competing with the world’s largest factory. Thirty-six years after President Nixon visited China, you can now catch a nonstop […]
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate: The image on the computer screen is shocking: a man, lying on a hospital bed, his head bandaged, with long trickles of blood running from the top of his scalp. The man, now sitting next to me, explains with a bit of understatement, “Of course I must continue to have faith in […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World: A glimpse of China’s future popped up last week as furtive as a groundhog emerging from its hole. To trust appearances, it is a future involving some significantly greater measure of pluralism. And because the evidence made its appearance in broad daylight, and not […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: For more than 2,000 years, the Chinese have turned soybeans into tofu, a staple of the country’s diet. But as its economy grows, so does China’s appetite for pork, poultry and beef, which require higher volumes of soybeans as animal feed. Plagued by scarce water supplies, China is turning to […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via DefenseNews.com: The U.S. on April 4 asked China to join a global effort to maintain international maritime security, as the Pentagon welcomed Beijing’s navy chief Vice Adm. Wu Shengli on a rare visit. Adm. Michael Mullen, the U.S. chief of naval operations, called on Wu to consider “China’s potential participation in global […]
Read MoreReal estate developments expand to China’s “second-tier” cities, from International Herald Tribune: When a group of large institutional property companies gathered for a real estate conference in February, it was no accident that they met in Chongqing rather than Shanghai or Beijing. The topic of the meeting, “Second Tier and Beyond,” has been dominating recent […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “People limit the definition of dance. Dance is everywhere. Sitting here is a gesture and writing is a movement.” If anyone else said the same thing you would laugh and forget about it. When Yang Liping says it, however, you are convinced by her every movement and gesture. Each one is natural, graceful […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Chunyi Lin remembers the first qigong Ê∞îÂäü class he ever taught in the United States. In 1993, he traveled from China as part of a cultural exchange between schools, and was asked to teach at a community center in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Only five people showed up. “Nobody knew […]
Read More: Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the China Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, “Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World.” From The Newsweek: As anti-Americanism grows, China is learning the value of good PR and beating the United States at […]
Read MoreFrom Far Eastern Economic review: Academics who study China, which includes the author, habitually please the Chinese Communist Party, sometimes consciously, and often unconsciously. Our incentives are to conform, and we do so in numerous ways: through the research questions we ask or don’t ask, through the facts we report or ignore, through our use […]
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