From Chinaelections.org: The American side shuns an issue of a surplus in its service trade to China, and China only receives part of the fees from the products it has processed from its processing trade, and this is the gist of an exclusive interview given by Chen Wenjing, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of International […]
Read MoreWomen looking for cheong-sam tailors during the Spring Festival in Jinan, Shandong Province, via www.xitek.com
Read MoreIn Commentary Magazine, Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, writes his view of the prospects for serious unrest in China as reforms continue to take hold: Although, in theory, authoritarian systems are inherently fragile and eventually fall apart, the People’s Republic of China is now widely considered to be both resilient […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China and the Vatican exchanged renewed criticisms over the weekend about China’s selection of a new bishop over the Vatican’s objections, but there were hints on each side that the dispute might be papered over in the months ahead. China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs, while describing Rome’s objections as […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: A wet nurse is a status symbol and young mothers are being lured by the promise of up to eight times their existing salary to breastfeed offspring of the rich. “At first I had my doubts, but the money convinced me,” said a wet nurse known as Madam Gu. “Now I earn […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Next week, pragmatic US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will lead an unprecedented pride of US cabinet secretaries (notable among them the secretaries of commerce, labor, energy, health and human services, and Trade Representative Susan Schwab) who will land in Beijing for a week of […]
Read MoreFrom Theregister.com: The politics of unwanted email is changing with China set to overtake the US any day now as the originator of most Irish inbox clutter. Figures for November from Irish email monitoring firm IE Internet show that although the US is still the world leader with 27 per cent of dodgy emails originating […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin Service, translated by CDT: Chinese farmers have long taken the brunt of relocation or other land grabbing projects in rural China. Now plans to build a panda site in Sichuan‘s Chengdu City have reportedly turned into violence against local villagers in at Huilong (ÂõûÈæôÊùë), where people refused to move due […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via thestar online: China and Japan stand at a “new starting point” in their relations following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe‘s visit to Beijing in October, Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan said in remarks published on Sunday. Both countries expressed optimism during Abe’s visit that they could mend ties that had soured over […]
Read MoreFrom YouTube, about Chinese catch 21 and tough tug-of-war between drivers and pedestrians. Here in Shenzhen, logged tapes showing how Chinese pedestrians are walking the Berkeleyan way of the road. But here cars don’t yield to them.
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Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A team of 30 Chinese and foreign scientists have failed in a 26-day search to find the rare white-fin dolphin in the Yangtze River. The white-fin dolphin is more endangered than the giant panda due to the pollution and environmental degradation, said Wang Ding, vice director of the hydrobiology institute of the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune via Chinadaily: Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Sunday that he was working with the Chinese government to bring his Grameen Bank lending system to rural China within a year. Yunus, at a news conference at the opening of the ITU Telecom World gathering, being held for the first […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: With its property prices fluctuating wildly, Shanghai has been designated as a testing ground for a more centralized, and hopefully more effective, vertical land administration system. This was one of a series of moves, taken last week by central government agencies, to further regulate the land and housing market. It follows public complaints […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: No one will ever know how many Chinese men – and women – were sexually satisfied after taking the American Number One, Male Exclusive, Great Big Brother pills sold by Xi Yongli. When the product was raised in court recently, it was not its potency that was on trial. Rather, it was […]
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