During a visit to Sydney, Australia, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney offered his views on China’s recent anti-satellite missile tests. According to a Reuters report: Cheney praised China’s role in six-party talks that led to a February 13 nuclear agreement under which North Korea agreed to disable its main plutonium-producing nuclear complex in return for […]
Read MoreFrom the American Prospect: This week, the Commerce Department reported the trade balance for 2006 — a record deficit of $764 billion. Nearly one-third of that was with China. The same Democrats willing to make a deal on negotiating authority are not backing down on China. Rangel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have proposed a […]
Read MoreFrom WorldNetDaily.com: A Christian house church leader in China and his mother are facing a criminal prosecution that appears to be part of that government’s campaign to eliminate messages that are contrary to the official publicity releases as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing approach. According to reports from Voice of the Martyrs, a Christian […]
Read MoreA woman on the road to Tibet in Napa Hai, near Zhongdian, by mechakucha
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: A close look at Mr. Celil’s life story, based on interviews and research by The Globe and Mail over the past several months in Canada and China, reveals a portrait of an intensely stubborn man who defied the will of the Chinese authorities for most of his life. In China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Council on Foreign Relations: China caused an international uproar in January when it destroyed one of its own satellites, an action that left hundreds of pieces of dangerous debris in space and led to alarm over the possibility of a space arms race. A month later, Beijing announced it plans no further similar tests, […]
Read MoreFrom AP via the News Tribune: A jailed editor of a Chinese newspaper known for its aggressive reporting has had his eight-year prison sentence reduced by one year, a Hong Kong newspaper said Thursday. The news about Southern Metropolitan Daily‘s Yu Huafeng came just weeks after his colleague, Li Minying, was released from prison three […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each morning at 6:30, he is jolted awake by […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “This is a Las Vegas version of Chinese New Year,” Mr. Zhu said. “It’s its own thing, but we love it.” So do casino executives. Chinese New Year, a 15-day celebration that is set by a lunar calendar and that usually falls in late January or early February, has become […]
Read MoreA CNNMoney.com report reveals that construction of the new Tibet-Qinghai railway follows secret seven-year, $44 million survey project that discovered major resource deposits across Tibet: In 1999 more than 1000 researchers divided into 24 separate regiments and fanned out across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, geologically mapping an area the size of California, Texas and Montana for […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A report by the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing suggests that China suffers from the world’s most severe brain drain. About two-thirds of Chinese who have studied abroad since the 1980s have chosen not to go back home, according to state media. Here, four of those who left their homes to […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: China is bracing for a ‘mini’ baby boom in 2007 as many young Chinese couples want to have an offspring during the auspicious ‘Year of the Golden Pig’, which comes only once in 60 years. More members of the generation born under the mandatory ‘one-child’ per couple family policy have […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Municipal bylaw enforcement officers in southwestern China stuck confiscated paper advertisements all over the bodies of two boys and paraded them after they were found dispensing the ads in Chongqing, phoenixtv.com reported on Friday… The illegal adlets are everywhere, and have come to be known as ‘urban psoriasis’. They are a thorny […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Trubine: China had its warmest year in over half a century in 2006, with an average temperature of 9.9 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit), the Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The report, which cited the China Meteorological Administration, said the temperature was the highest on record since 1951. It did […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “China is the source of most of the world’s fake drugs, experts say. In December, according to Xinhua, the state news agency, the former chief of China’s Food and Drug Administration and two of his top deputies were arrested on charges of taking bribes to approve drugs. The director, Zheng […]
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