Coverage of Lan Chengzhang’s killing will not die. Both China Newsweek and Oriental Outlook Weekly weigh in with cover features this week. Oriental Outlook opens from a particularly fresh and unflattering angle: the murderers’. It’s worth picking up a copy, because the piece is not available on the Web. (More on that below). The Shanghai-based […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Chinese President Hu Jintao has agreed on a series of economic deals in Sudan, which China has protected from UN sanctions over the Darfur conflict, from BBC: China announced an interest-free loan to build a new presidential palace, and said it would build two schools. China already buys most of Sudan’s oil. Mr […]
Read MoreChina-Africa Summit Poster in Beijing, via China Chas
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist: From February until August, Chinese TV “golden hours” (5-8pm) programming is going to go on moral diet, shedding excess and unwanted sex, violence, and moral degradation. This we learned from a Chinese report as well as Asia Times Online, where they quoted official Wang Weiping on the matter: “The country’s satellite TV stations […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s security chief has warned judicial departments to stand firm in face of what he described as “hostile forces” of reform, but also urged the judiciary to improve its handling of social unrest. In a wide-ranging essay published in Seeking Truth(ʱÇÊòØÔºâ, the Communist Party’s leading journal, Luo Gan dampened reformists’ hopes for moves […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: A Winter sex education workshop for primary school pupils and their parents opened in Chaoyang District of Beijing on Thursday. When the teacher wrote the question “Where did I come from?” on the blackboard, the children had lots of answers. “My mom found me on a hillside!” “I was taken […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Foreigners in Beijing will be limited to buying a single home for their own use under new curbs imposed amid efforts to slow a surge in housing costs, newspapers reported Saturday… China’s government is trying to restrain a jump in housing prices and cool an investment boom that Chinese leaders worry could spark […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential blog: Some Chinese chat rooms have reportedly been buzzing about Fujitsu Limited, the Japanese electronics and information technology (IT) titan with seemingly limitless products and services … and a huge and expanding presence in China. The chat comes at a time of rising protectionist and anti-foreigner feeling in China–though the government has […]
Read MoreMySpace’s entry in China may need to adapt to local online culture as well as heeding orders from authorities. OurSpace, or NobodysSpace? From the Wall Street Journal: As News Corp.‘s social-networking Web site MySpace tries to steer its way into China’s Internet market, it may find that it has to let someone else do the […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Bush administration’s efforts to ease economic strains with China suffered two setbacks Friday with the resignation of a top official in charge of the China dialogue and an announcement that talks on a critical trade dispute had failed to resolve differences. The United States trade representative, Susan C. Schwab, […]
Read MorePage 1 from the Wall Street Journal, some disharmonious sound from warming China-Africa love affair (photo: map of Chambishi, Zambia and a little dressed-down President Hu addressing Chinese construction workers in Cameroon, via wsj.com): CHAMBISHI, Zambia — Chinese President Hu Jintao embarked on an upbeat tour of Africa this week, doling out aid and lauding […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on a rare public rebuke of President Bush by a senior Chinese official. Ye Xiaowen, director of China’s State Bureau of Religious Affairs, wrote in the overseas edition of People’s Daily: “The more they oppose terrorism, the more terror they produce,” Mr. Ye said in the article. “How many more […]
Read MoreIan Taylor is senior lecturer in international relations at the University of St. Andrews. He wrote following essay on the ChinaDialogue: China’s environmental concerns at home have driven Beijing’s quest for resources overseas, argues Ian Taylor. The country must consider the ecological impact of its logging and oil extraction in Africa. “There are real fears […]
Read MoreFrom The Southern Weekend, via Press Interpreter, translated by Joseph McMullin: “Life is most precious under heaven” The change gives new meaning to the old phrase: “Human life is matter of ‘heavenly’ concern.” Now, the word “heaven” refers to the Supreme Court. „ÄÄ„ÄÄ On December 31st, 2006, chief justices of the Hunan and Sichuan Higher […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: The Bush administration has suspended plans to develop space ventures with China, including joint exploration of the moon, in reaction to Beijing’s Jan. 11 test of an anti-satellite weapon that left orbiting debris threatening U.S. and foreign satellites. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jason Sharp said the weapon test undermined […]
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