From The Wall Street Journal: As Beijing and the Vatican escalate their battle for control of the Roman Catholic Church in China, people like Bishop Liu Jingshan are caught painfully in the middle. The head of a diocese in the dusty plains of western China (Yinchuan), the 93-year-old bishop is one of the church’s last […]
Read MoreFrom the AP: Andrew McLaughlin, senior counsel for Google, told a State Department-sponsored conference on internet freedom that his company is trying to use its “presence in countries that are restrictive to provide communication” options, such as email and blogs, for people who may not have other ways to talk to each other freely. McLaughlin […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The number of rural protests involving mass participation declined “markedly” last year, and will continue to drop if government officials work in real earnest to redress farmers’ complaints. That was the message delivered yesterday by Chen Xiwen, the top advisor to the government on rural policy… Nearly half of the rural mass […]
Read MoreDenis McDonough and Peter Ogden at the Center for American Progress write an op-ed on CAP’s website calling on the US government and companies to jump on China’s booming clean energy market: China’s interest in clean energy presents an enormous business opportunity as well as an environmental one. Unfortunately, it is an opportunity that the […]
Read MoreMigrant workers family: wives and kids are left behind, via HubbleBubble
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Money is by far the primary motivation for most of today’s virus writing and spamming in the world of computers except when it comes to China. For Chinese hackers, gaming prestige outweighs financial gain, according to a new report on Internet security. The target of Chinese Internet malicious software, or malware, is […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: The current bull market in China shares looks like a lot like any other bull market: frenzied trading volumes, fresh record highs on a regular basis, cheerleading banks upgrading their “price targets”. But there is also a very special rationale involved in the run on China assets. This is not just a […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Sentinel: China’s leaders appear once again to want to bludgeon their property market into submission. Their 20 January announcement that they would enforce a capital gains tax on property development that would cut developers’ margins to 20 percent shows that their grasp on market mechanisms remains remarkably slippery. But blunt instruments don’t always […]
Read MoreThe New York Times covers the killing of Lan Chengzhang and corruption in the Chinese media: Attacks against journalists are not uncommon in China, even if deaths are rare. But in ways that few could have expected, the killing on Jan. 11 of this untested reporter for an obscure publication has become a watershed event, […]
Read MoreFrom China Confidential blog: The United States Commerce Department will send a delegation to China and India to market technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Clean Energy Technologies Trade Mission” will head to Asia in April and involve a broad range of technologies such as biofuels (biodiesel and ethanol), energy efficiency and so-called clean […]
Read MoreThe Mercury News reports on Hu Jintao’s visit to Africa, his second in nine months: Hu’s first stop is Cameroon, then he heads to Liberia, Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and the Seychelles before returning to China 12 days later. Driven by its resource-hungry economy and seeking greater global clout, China is courting African […]
Read MoreChina scholar Charles W. Hayford wrote the following post on the Frog in a Well blog: The intriguing pig map in Alan Baumler’s post, “Pigs” (January 11) reminds us that 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Wikipedia informs us that a person born in the year of the Pig (or Boar) is “usually an […]
Read MoreA Tibetan teenager who was detained after the Nangpa La shootings has told AP about his experiences: Nearly three dozen Tibetans captured by Chinese troops as they tried to sneak out of their homeland were tortured with cattle prods and forced into hard labor, a teenager who identified himself as one of the former detainees […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: More than 20 million Chinese children are living with grandparents or other relations after their parents left home to find work, an official report said. The report, quoted in the China Daily, said some of the children suffered from loneliness and poor performance. Their parents are among 150 million Chinese thought to […]
Read MoreTranslated by ESWN: The following is an excerpt from the book I Object: The Road to Politics by a People’s Congress Member by Zhu Ling. The book is about former People’s Congress representative Yao Lifa, who is more commonly known among the citizens of Qianjiang as “Representative Yao.” The book is ‘banned’ by the General […]
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