Today the World Bank marked the news about China’s free trade talk in ASEAN as its website top headline, and listed the major international media’s reports anout China in ASEAN: “Leaders in South-East Asia signed a ground-breaking agreement with China Sunday that liberalizes trade in services, five years after a similar pact on goods. The […]
Read MoreRainbow in Gui Lin, Guangxi Province.
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Late in 2006, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson led a large American delegation on a widely-publicized and closely watched mission to Beijing. It had to be a serious trip, for was not Paulson bringing along with him Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board? Yes, Paulson, Bernanke — and what […]
Read MoreFormer SEPA vice minister Pan Yue (ÊΩòÂ≤≥) was recently promoted to be the #1 deputy (Á¨¨‰∏ÄÂâرÄÈïø), or executive vice minister, of China’s environmental watchdog agency, and he is launching China’s third “environmental protection storm.” From China Business News (Á¨¨‰∏ÄË¥¢ÁªèÊó•Êä•) via sina.com.cn (translated by CDT): Since the previous two “storms” in 2005 and 2006, Chinese State […]
Read MoreAlthough broadcast on PBS one year ago, the issues addressed in this video are still very current. The following footage is from Google Video. The surge of China on to the world stage has been called the single most important geopolitical event in this century. Will the nation of nearly 1.3 billion be a force […]
Read MoreTime.com published an article titled “A Chinese Movie at the Met” this week: The creators of The First Emperor were clearly intent on sharpening the film’s (already pretty clear) political stance. “Qin...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Just five years ago, Zhang Yin and her husband were driving around the United States in a used Dodge minivan begging garbage dumps to give them their scrap paper. She and her husband, who was trained as a dentist, had formed a company in the 1990s to collect paper for […]
Read MoreFrom China.org: Jiang Fangzhou, born in 1989, published her first novel Rainbow Rider last year. In an interview, she rejected the label of “post-1980s writers,” which she saw as a “scandalous” name. The “post-1980s writers” is a specific phrase in China describing the group of literature rookies born in the 1980s and who have written […]
Read MoreFrom The 88s via Shanghaiist: U.S. military propaganda film from the 1960s. All the Mao quotes sound like a white guy faking a Chinese accent. [Link Here]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: People tend to keep their distance from Jin Ping Mei(ÈáëÁì∂Ê¢Ö), at least in public. Its graphic sexual content has given the late-Ming classic a reputation as smut that it has been unable to shake off. Performers of pingshuÔºàËØщπ¶Ôºâ, the art of storytelling, have conquered great classical novels as well as more contemporary tales […]
Read MoreIn Le Monde Diplomatique, Martine Bulard reports on the rise of India and implications for both China and the US: India’s trade with the US rose to almost 11% of the Indian total in 2005-6; trade with Russia, which was formerly its main partner, was only just over 1%. India wants a lot more. Stunned […]
Read MoreFrom New American Media, a Q & A about environmental issues facing China: China is becoming increasingly aware of the demands unsustainable development will place on its environment and the impact that can have on its own economy and the world. But lax regulations and weak enforcement still bedevil its environmental policy says Peter Navarro, […]
Read MoreFrom Development Bank Research Bulletin (DBRB) blog: There are two famous myths about China. The first one is that the savings rate is high because ordinary Chinese worry about the lack of safety net. This myth has been busted because evidence has shown that Chinese household savings rate is actually lower than the Indian one. […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: You’re a government worker in China, and you’ve just gotten a memo showing the true face of the regime. Without any independent media around, how do you share what you have without landing in jail or worse? Wikileaks.org is a Web-based way for people with damning, potentially helpful or just plain […]
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