A sharp argument in the Financial Times, again, on China’s anti-satellite missile test that exposes the consequences of the U.S.’s many failings (photo from pravda.ru): On this occasion, as before, China has put into practice a ruthless, rational and legally defensible strategy that exploits a key weakness of the world’s biggest economy and sole military […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Under complex rules governing social mobility that are a legacy of Maoist times, the laborers from rural China ” who have streamed to the country’s rich eastern cities by the millions to build their towering skylines, clean and cook for others and do all kinds of work that more prosperous […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestl√© SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. “Happy new pig year,” the ads said. This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestl√©’s ad — and all images and spoken […]
Read MoreSuch are the political and economic realities of China’s lethal coal mining business that all too often it doesn’t pay to play it clean. Sadly, the same can be said for journalism on the subject. Celebrated reporter Wang Keqin confirmed this for himself in the mining town of Datong in recent days. On Wednesday, the […]
Read MoreFrom CBS News: Anna Mae e was left in the United States by her Chinese parents when she was just 2 years old. Since then, she has lived with foster parents in Tennessee and is about to turn 8. After a long legal battle, the Tennessee Supreme Court cleared the way for her to be […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s economy expanded 10.7 per cent in 2006, the fastest pace since 1995, as investments and exports continued to rise strongly despite the government’s cooling measures. The continued fast growth has helped China surpass Britain to become the world’s fourth largest economy last year and to draw near Germany, the third largest […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: At 9 p.m. in a dark Shenzhen parking lot, Bai Xiuyu handed over a plain brown envelope containing 15,000 Chinese yuan, the equivalent of nearly $2,000, in what was supposed to be a discreet blackmail payment to a local reporter… In many ways, blackmail journalism grew naturally out of a system […]
Read MoreThe Telegraph’s Richard Spencer chews on the New York Times story that suggests the US may be doubtful of Chinese leadership’s witting-ness of the anti-satellite missile test (photo from Reuters via the blog): In particular, I am referring to the Bush administration’s national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, who asks: “The question on something like this […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a lengthy report by prominent investigative journalist Wang Keqin into the murder of reporter Lan Chengzhang. The original Chinese article is here: The beating death by pickaxe handles and steel rods of China Trade News’ Shanxi bureau worker Lan Chengzhang by the owner of an illegal coal mine and his gang is […]
Read MoreXinhua reports on President Hu Jintao’s latest call for improved monitoring of the Internet: “Whether we can cope with the Internet is a matter that affects the development of socialist culture, the security of information, and the stability of the state,” Hu said, asking officials to use the Internet as a platform to spread healthy […]
Read MoreWall Street Journal’s page one story on liushou ertong (ÁïôÂÆàÂÑøÁ´•) (photo: left-behind children via BBC News): In a sparsely furnished farmhouse, about a half mile from a main road in the poor, rural province of Anhui, 16-year-old Zhao Yan has lived on her own for more than two years. She goes to school, tends to […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s President Hu Jintao has called for a swift investigation into the murder of a Chinese journalist at an illegal coal mine, state media said. The president’s extremely rare intervention follows an outcry over the beating to death of Lan Chengzhang outside the mine, in Shanxi province. The mine owner is among […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: Shanghai property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi was arrested on Sunday after prosecutors found evidence linking him to the pension fund scandal, Shanghai People’s Procuratorate said yesterday. Prosecutors discovered that Zhou was suspect of bribery and falsification of value-added tax invoices during their investigation into the city’s pension fund scandal, the Procuratorate said. Zhou […]
Read MoreFrom New America Media: China has just confirmed that it shot down one of its own satellites, but Chinese bloggers and U.S.-based Chinese media have been discussing the incident for days. Last Friday, www.people.com.cn, the online venue for China’s government newspaper People’s Daily, published a report titled “America’s Wild Speculation on China’s Anti-Satellite Missile.” By […]
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