AIDS fighter Gao Yaojie reported on her very own blog today that she was being held captive at home in Zhengzhou, as Henan province authorities tried to stop her from traveling to the United States to fetch an award. The 79-year-old even beat Reuters to the punch. Then, within hours, her blog post vanished. Gao […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China’s HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday. Police barred Gao Yaojie from leaving her home in the central province of Henan, forcing her to miss her Sunday flight to Beijing where […]
Read MoreFrom Hoover Institution’s Policy Review: …… Simultaneously, the ccp has keenly and successfully co-opted potential political competitors. According to Minxin Pei, the party has built coalitions with 1) intellectuals, who were at the forefront of criticizing the regime in the 1980s and in leading the Tiananmen Democracy Movement of 1989; 2) private entrepreneurs, who comprise […]
Read MoreFrom ABC: Hong Kong’s chief executive Donald Tsang has announced he is seeking a second term in office. The widely-expected declaration was accompanied by a pledge of tax cuts and greater infrastructure spending.Mr Tsang has also agreed to an unprecedented public debate with challenger and pro-democracy activist Alan Leong. A mostly pro-Beijing, 800-member panel will […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Nine Chinese oil workers abducted in Nigeria’s Delta region have been freed after 11 days in captivity. The men, seized from the offices of China’s National Petroleum Company, were freed after “complex efforts”, China’s foreign ministry said. All nine were safe and well and were handed back to their company in Bayelsa […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Chinese President Hu Jintao embarked on an upbeat tour of Africa this week, doling out aid and lauding China’s growing economic and political ties with the continent. But there is little love for China in this ramshackle township, which had to be dropped from the agenda of President Hu’s weekend […]
Read MoreJournalist and author James Mann recently testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, where he presented his view that political change in China is not inevitable and the U.S. should stop treating it as such: In our dealing with China, the problem of the wrong paradigm comes from the opposite direction. It’s not […]
Read MoreReuters reports on an “exclusive” tip from a senior climate policy expert”Zou Ji at People’s University“that China is likely to release a plan to combat climate change this year, which is expected to set goals for carbon emissions and lay out strategies for dealing with changing weather patterns. Via Khaleej Times Online: The plan showed […]
Read MoreThe Economist reports on how local officials are finding they can benefit from the presence of temples and other religious institutions in their jurisdictions: Many local governments in rural China are mired in debt. Recent central government efforts to keep peasants happy by abolishing centuries-old taxes have not made life any easier for these bureaucracies. […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: The democracy protests of 1989, culminating in the massacre of student demonstrators in Beijing on June 4, brought the birth of new supreme buzzword in the Chinese media lexicon — “guidance of public opinion”. There are now indications that the term, synonymous with press control, is gradually retiring to the annals […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing News, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: In January 2007, China Trade News Shanxi bureau employee Lan Chengzhang was beaten to death in Datong city by people on the orders of a mine owner. At the same time, the local government issued a notice directed against “fake reporters.” These became the focus of attention of the […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: Shanghai’s rapidly aging population means that there’s a labor force shortage, especially in the 25-35-year-old age group (report in Chinese). Therefore, Shanghai has to “import” 244,000 workers over the next five years to make up for this. We wonder if they include, in these figures, all the migrants that come anyway. The report […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The Chinese government is taking action to implement a new policy of diversifying the disposal of the country’s over US$1 trillion foreign exchange reserves which was initiated by the Central Conference on Financial Affairs three weeks ago. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is planning to issue yuan-denominated bonds to raise funds that […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: China’s Ministry of Health has banned trade in human sperm, eggs, zygotes and embryos and laid down new regulations for assisted reproductive therapy (ART). A statement from the ministry said it had appointed a panel of specialists to examine and deliberate on licence applications to carry out assisted reproduction operations […]
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