The Economist reports on the recent riot in Yongzhou, Hunan Province: The protest in Hunan was apparently sparked by a sudden doubling of public-bus fares during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, when many people travel to visit their families. In the resulting clashes, several police vehicles and public buses were torched, at least one […]
Read MoreGaoming Jiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Botany, wrote an essay on China Dialogue outlining some potential ways for China to help mitigate the global warming crisis: The best way of stopping global warming is to gradually reduce the amount of coal and other non-renewable energy sources that we burn. […]
Read MoreAn editorial from Caijing Magazine editor Hu Shuli: Market-oriented reform is a multi-dimensional process. In fall 2006, the Party advocated ‘advancing reform and innovation in the economic, political, cultural and social systems, and continuing to open the door to the outside world.’ This was a basic summary of the characteristics and tasks of the current […]
Read MoreFrom The China in Transition blog: China should eliminate residence-based discrimination and stop differentiating between rural and urban residents, Ma Kening, a NPC delegate from Shaanxi, proposed to China’s top legislature. In the proposal, which Ms. Ma also posted on her blog at people.com.cn, she pointed out that rural residents, or nong min (peasants) as […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Last month, at the Chinese New Year, officials from China’s central Henan province showed up at the door of Gao Yaojie, an 80-year-old retired obstetrician, blogger and AIDS activist. Previously, provincial officials had come to the house only to harass Gao, who was under house arrest. But this time, on Feb. […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: Perhaps the most unpleasant alert that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao heard from the country’s political advisors at their annual full session this year was a popular witty doggerel: “Hoodwinking starts from villages, then the lies are copied by township officials without changes, which roll all the way from county officials to the State […]
Read MoreFrom a lengthy essay by Louis Menand in the New Yorker reviewing Margaret MacMillan’s Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World: MacMillan’s book is a clearly written, informative, moment-by-moment account of Nixon’s visit, set in the context of twentieth-century Sino-American history. The context makes it plain that both governments had excellent reasons for […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Security is tight in a town in central China following riots that involved as many as 20,000 people. A BBC correspondent in the town, in Hunan province, has seen riot police and soldiers protecting government buildings and patrolling the streets. He says it appears the protests began after a local firm took […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: On Wednesday, the US Commerce Department reported that the 2006 current-account deficit was US$856.7 billion, up from $791.5 billion in 2005 and setting a new record. The deficit was 6.5% of gross domestic product (GDP). In the fourth quarter, the current-account deficit was $195.8 billion, down from $229.4 billion in the third […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: Mr. Wang Xudong, a CPPCC member and university professor from Nanjing, suddenly faced a dilemma these days”to continue or shut down his blog at people.com.cn after this year’s two meetings. In his latest blog post, he said he doubted whether it was necessary to continue his blog. What caused his […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Guardian: Chinese Communist officials are colluding with big business and exacerbating corruption, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday of a problem that was all but wiped out in the years after the party came to power in 1949. The number of high-level officials being investigated or arrested in the last four […]
Read MoreWang Shuo‘s got another bad habit: the paparazzi. Fighting the demons of sex, drugs and police scrutiny as he mounts a literary comeback, the foul-mouthed writer recently agreed to tape the late-night CCTV psychiatry show Xinli Fangtan(ÂøÉÁêÜËÆøË∞à) along with his 79-year-old mother. After a teary three-hour sitting focused on a tempestuous relationship between mother and […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China is making a serious effort in protecting the global environment, even though it is exempt from carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts as a developing country, according to the country’s top weather official… The nation is the second largest emitter of CO2 behind the United States. A report last November released by […]
Read MoreEditorial from The New York Times: The annual session of China’s National People’s Congress, now concluding, is not quite the ritual of absolute fealty it used to be. Reporters get to chase delegates in the hallways, and insiders say there have been some lively debates in the closed sessions. Still, the two-week gathering of 2,980 […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A Chinese activist who witnessed a clash between farmers and police in which one person was reportedly killed has been taken away and warned by police not to speak with the media, his friends said Wednesday, as an uneasy calm settled over the village. Zhang Zilin, a human rights activist, was among the […]
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