This week’s edition of CDT ChinaCast’s Foreign Correspondents Series continues to feature Jaime Florcruz, the current Beijing bureau chief for CNN. As we mentioned in last week’s podcast, Florcruz has been in...
Read MoreFrom AP via The Wall Street Journal: A company headed by the son of Chinese President Hu Jintao won a deal to supply airports across China with security scanners, company and aviation officials said yesterday. Under the deal, Nuctech Co. will supply scanners that detect liquid explosives to all 147 airports in China, said the […]
Read MoreYang Xi (杨曦) is a photo journalist for Nanfang Daily. The following images are from his blog on daqi.com. Guangzhou traffic police caught this Mr. Chen, who was driving without a license plate at 8 am, Dec. 8, 2006. The wife...
Read MoreFrom Reuters via Guardian Unlimited: China’s Communist Party expelled a disgraced former vice mayor of Beijing and will launch criminal proceedings against him after he was found to have taken millions of yuan in bribes, state media reported. Liu Zhihua had been in charge of building venues for the Chinese capital’s 2008 Olympics, as well […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Chinese internet users have stirred a heated debate over the status of dragons, seen as a national symbol. The problem, some academics allege, is that Chinese people and Westerners have very different concepts of dragons. Chinese dragons are supernatural symbols without the Western traits of aggression or maiden-eating. The debated began when a […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: For the first time since China’s communist revolution, a pro-democracy candidate in an area under Beijing’s control appears likely to compete in a contest for high political office. Alan Leong is virtually certain to lose the March race for chief executive of Hong Kong, and the election itself will be a far […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: So rare are top-level political excisions in China these days that Chen Liangyu’s fall from power in late September caught many by surprise. The Shanghai communist party secretary and Politburo member was detained by anti-corruption investigators on a Sunday morning, only hours after presiding over a ceremony the night before for China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: While China has enjoyed soaring surpluses in many categories of trade in the five years since it joined the World Trade Organisation, one sector stands out as a glaring exception: media and culture. In China, the likes of Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg are familiar “in every household”, but Chinese stars are […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext.com: The National Museum, standing on the east side of Tian’anmen Square, will undergo renovation and enlargement from next April to 2010, Lu was quoted as saying by the Beijing News on Sunday. “The museum will expand 100 meters eastwards and its floor space will reach 192,000 square meters — the largest in the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China will launch a nationwide audit of provincial and city-level social security funds in the wake of the scandal in Shanghai over the alleged misuse of pension monies by senior leaders in the country’s financial centre. Li Jinhua, the head of the National Audit Office, said the checks would begin in 2007 […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: China’s search for new energy sources has set back the cause of human rights in Africa, advocates say, but some analysts argue that China’s investment is just part of the worldwide competition for oil. Over the last three years, China’s surge in oil imports has fueled trade and investment in regions […]
Read MoreFrom earthtimes.org: China has banned all foreign investments in domestic media production, at least temporarily. Daily Variety reported the declaration by Chinese officials contradicts a 2004 set of rules dictating foreign investments by disallowing all financial endeavors by outside forces in the nation’s TV and film industries. State Administration of Radio, Film & Television executive […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: The 2006 list of cities with the best investment environment was recently announced by the National Bureau of Statistics. Beijing, Tianjin and Shenyang took the first three places. Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Qingdao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen also ranked in the top ten. Zhang Weimin, the deputy director of the National Bureau of […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In a rebuke to China on the eve of a high-level visit by American officials, the Bush administration formally accused Chinese leaders on Monday of failing to meet commitments to open the nation’s economy and crack down on piracy of foreign goods. The criticism came in a 100-page report to […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: China marked the fifth anniversary of its entry into the World Trade Organization with an unwavering defense of its record on market opening that offered no concessions to overseas critics of its trade and currency practices. “For the past five years, we have conscientiously abided by WTO rules, implemented all […]
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