From Time: Everything seemed to have been going well last year. In May 2006, Admiral William J. Fallon, then combatant commander for U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) ” and now the chief overseeing the more fraught theater that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan ” visited four cities during an official tour of China that […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: Taiwan may rejoin China peacefully within 20 years To the untutored ear, the verbal salvoes lobbed across the Taiwan Strait since the weekend might appear to carry with them an alarming rise in tensions over nearly the last bit of unfinished history left over from the cold war: Taiwan’s long separation from mainland […]
Read MoreFrom an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor: Both the US and China – the largest emitters of greenhouse gases – have a goal to make sure those emissions grow more slowly than their economies. Yet both are barely making progress. Of the two, China now seems to want to act more boldly. On Monday, […]
Read MoreZNET published an interview with Chalmers Johnson, former head of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley, in which he talks about his current views of China: AMY GOODMAN: Today, we spend the hour with the former CIA consultant, distinguished scholar, best-selling author, Chalmers Johnson. He’s just published a new book. It’s called Nemesis: The […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: Tianamen Mothers demand truth of the 1989 massacre in Beijing: an open letter to the Chinese government asks for an open debate on the subject at next week’s annual meeting of the National People’s Congress. In an open letter released by Human Rights in China the Tiananmen Mothers, a group of relatives […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: Feng Peien, CPPCC national committee member, denounced tremendous wastes and extravagant spending of public money by governments around China. He listed a series of shocking numbers, including: government agencies spend over two trillion yuan every year in operating a few million government vehicles, while only one third of the usage […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: News of the test comes as Taiwanese president reiterates desire for independence. Hot on the heels of a dust-up between Taiwan’s pro-independence president and China’s government, a new report says that last month Taiwan tested a missile capable of striking Shanghai and Hong Kong. [Full Text]
Read MoreSeveral newspapers and magazines have published reviews of James Mann’s new book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression. (Read also CDT’s interview with Mann about the book.) From the Washington Post: The China Fantasy raises an awkward and important question: What if there is a third alternative between the rise of […]
Read MoreFrom DailyTech: According to an announcement made by LiveJournal, China has officially blocked the popular online blogging site from its citizens. SixApart, the company behind LiveJournal, said that China’s censor roughly locks out 1.8 million of its blogs — of which 8,692 are self-reported Chinese bloggers. This isn’t the first time that China has blocked […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The State Council issued its Report on the Implementation of the Central and Local Budgets for 2006 and the Draft Central and Local Budgets for 2007, and submitted it to deputies for review at the 5th Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress on March 5. The report outlined the 2007 budget: […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News Only about half of China’s population can speak the national language, Mandarin, according to the state news agency Xinhua. More men speak Mandarin than women, and more urbanites speak the language than those in rural areas, Xinhua said. For many years now, the government has tried to increase the use of Mandarin, […]
Read MoreFrom Boingboing: Tibetan exiles around the world and their supporters plan to use YouTube to commemorate “global uprising day” this Saturday, March 10. Videos already uploaded include pilgrims, rap songs, statements...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system. “Most of the deaths happen in rural areas, as about 50 percent of them do not receive any medical treatment […]
Read MoreFrom AP via MSNBC: A group of U.S. venture capital firms, including Disney’s investment arm, was set to announce Wednesday that it had invested $23.5 million in UUSee, a major Chinese site for Web video. UUSee distributes live and on-demand TV from CCTV, China’s largest TV broadcaster; CSAT, China’s largest satellite TV company; and Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom The Chronicle of Higher Education, via A Glimpse of the World blog: January 27, 1971: “If we dedicate all our lives to the socialist revolution, letting the Communist Party and the People decide how we can make the most of our time, our futures are sure to be affluent. Thinking of this, how can […]
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