China Media Project examines the online aftermath of the “nail house”: Just after 7pm Monday, crews went to work destroying China’s “toughest nail house”, an isolated Chongqing residence where homeowners had vowed for days to fight for their rights and stand up to property developers [Chinese coverage]. As demolition work began, the homeowners reportedly reached […]
Read MoreFrom China Matters blog: The countervailing duty (CVD) determination against China for subsidizing its paper industry points to the emergence of a new approach by the Bush administration. With the Democrats in control of Congress and political pressure from both sides of the aisle to “do something” in response to the ballooning trade deficit with […]
Read MoreThe New York Times has published the second article in a series, “looking at China’s embrace of Western classical music”: With stunning swiftness China’s surging ranks of classical musicians have found a home in Western concert halls, conservatories and opera houses, jolting a musical tradition born in the courts and churches of Europe. Large solo […]
Read MoreFrom Li Xinde’s Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT (photo: bad grapes grown after using the fake pesticide, via Yulun Jiandu): Almost two years after 52 grape-growing families at Huangguaying Village of Heishi Township in Panshi City, Jilin Province (ÂêâÊûóÁúÅÁ£êÁü≥Â∏ÇȪíÁü≥ÈïáȪÑÁìúËê•Êùë), fell victim to a fake pesticide scam, their 50 combined acres of grape farms have become […]
Read MoreFrom AP via San Francisco Examiner: Rural Chinese children increasingly risk being sold or forced to become beggars, petty thieves or sex workers as their farmer parents flock to cities looking for work, an international rights group said Wednesday. China has a thriving black market in girls and women who are sold as brides, as […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said here Wednesday he hopes his upcoming visit to Japan will be a success and help “melt the ice” in China-Japan relations. “I hope to reach consensus with Japanese leaders on major bilateral issues and improve relations between the two countries,” Premier Wen Jiabao said while giving an interview […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: Google on Wednesday made itself more of a local player by launching its own Chinese input method editor (IME) to offer writers an alternative to writing Chinese characters. Input method editors allow writers to write in Chinese characters using the alphabet keyboard. Within hours of its release some Chinese websites began […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s national press regulator has banned journalists and newspapers from accepting and extorting money in return for favourable news coverage. “Local newspaper branches and their staff reporters are not allowed to engage in any extortion by threatening to expose inside stories,” said a circular issued by the General Administration of Press and […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The Nasdaq Stock Market said on Tuesday it will launch an index designed to track the performance of the largest Chinese companies whose securities are actively traded in the US. Nasdaq said it will introduce the index during the second quarter this year with an initial 30 companies with a combined market […]
Read MoreFrom Letters from China: Just before the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival, the Organising Committee suddenly issued a notice on 26 March saying the film festival was ordered to suspend and the committee was still...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Women and children in China face a growing threat of being trafficked and sold into marriage or sex work, as labour migration and a widening gender imbalance put them at risk, an international aid group said on Wednesday. About 119 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, an imbalance that has […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: The U.S. move to slap Chinese glossy paper with duties on subsidy grounds changes the trade playbook”and creates further opportunities for discord Abrupt and unilateral trade sanctions by the U.S. directed at China are scarcely a new phenomenon. Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the U.S. has slapped dozens […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Listen to the apostles of free trade, and you’ll learn that once consumer choice comes to authoritarian regimes, democracy is sure to follow. Call it the Starbucks rule: Situate enough Starbucks around Shanghai, and the Communist Party‘s control will crumble like dunked biscotti. As a theory of revolution, the Starbucks rule […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: An official with the All China Federation of Trade Unions said Tuesday the US fast-food chains KFC, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut have violated China’s Labor Law and they will take action to protect workers’ interests. A Guangzhou-based newspaper ran a report last week saying the US fast-food chains are underpaying and […]
Read MoreRussia increases delivery of crude oil to China from 10 million tons last year to 15 million tons this year, via China Redux blog.
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