From The Wall Street Journal: An investigation into corruption at China’s drug-watchdog agency has exposed the government’s role in allowing shoddy medicines to thrive and is threatening to slow the drug-approval process in the country’s fast-growing pharmaceutical market. For years, China’s pharmacies and hospitals have been plagued by low-quality and fake medicines made by local […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian’s Richard Spencer’s blog: Gao Yaojie is one of those remarkable Chinese people those of us lucky to have met her can use to rebut claims that in criticising things that go on here we are “bashing China”. Dr Gao is both very Chinese and your average, everyday grandmother. After I interviewed her […]
Read MoreFrom Tim Johnson’s blog: I recently wrote an article about homosexuality in China, the gist of which was that gays in China’s cities feel freer than ever _ except for one aspect. They endure huge family pressure to marry and bear offspring. Many gays marry, have a baby, then divorce. Click here for the story. […]
Read MoreRolling Stone Magazine has published a lengthy article by Joshua Kurlantzick about the future of Tibetan culture: But Tibet’s time may be running out. In the past decade, China has waged a quiet but ruthless war on Tibetan society — part of a deliberate and sophisticated campaign to strip “the Roof of the World” of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Building the new China usually entails digging up the old China. Construction zones across the country are uncovering so many antiquities that it might be considered a golden era for archaeology ” except that sites and antiquities are often simply demolished by bulldozers or looted. “There are two enemies of […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: Tomorrow, China-sponsored six-party talks to disarm North Korea are scheduled to resume in Beijing. This time, there are great expectations that an agreement will be reached. But if there is a deal, it will not be because Chinese diplomats worked behind the scenes. It will be because the Bush administration […]
Read MoreFrom China In Transition blog: It is again the time for the annual national ritual of crazy Chinese New Year travel. This year’s “Spring Festival Travel” season started on Saturday and will end on March 14, almost one month after the Chinese New Year.Every year around this time, millions of people, mostly rural residents seeking […]
Read MoreFrom the Southern Weekend, Feb 8, 2007, translated by ESWN: This is the end of the Chinese year again. The migrant workers are demanding their wages again. The sub-contractors are on the run again “with the money.”...
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal: For more than a decade, the US was a lone superpower in terms of economic, diplomatic and military might. But China has steadily stepped up to the challenge, demonstrating its intent to serve as a counterweight to US influence when it comes to global affairs. In the first of this series of articles […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via scotsman.com: China’s top Communist Party training academy has slammed Oscar-nominated director Zhang Yimou‘s latest film “Curse of the Golden Flower” as the latest in a line of bloodthirsty blockbusters smearing modern Chinese cinema. A commentary in the “Study Times”, the Chinese Communist Party School’s official mouthpiece, complained that Chinese directors were deluding […]
Read MoreThe floodgates are open. The ground rules have softened. But not all the correspondents coming to China ahead of the Olympics can take full advantage. In October last year, the Foreign Desk editor of one media outlet emailed the following memo to his Greater China staff. Biganzi happened upon it and on checking with an […]
Read MoreFrom the Shanghaiist: The tiny Caribbean island of Grenada suffered a huge diplomatic embarrassment at the inauguration of a US$40 million China-financed stadium built as a gift from Beijing when its police band decided it would perform the Taiwan anthem instead of the March of the Volunteers. Oops. The Associated Press reports that Chinese Ambassador […]
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