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Wen meets Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year, via anhuinews.com
Read MoreDalai Lama’s Brother Slams Tougher Chinese Stance on Tibet – RFA
From Radio Free Asia: Gyalo Dhondup, a brother of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, has lashed out at what he calls a “major shift in attitude” towards Tibet among Chinese officials. “Chinese officials have launched an unprecedented wave of criticism of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from May this year,” Gyalo Dhondup said […]
Read MoreUS Warns on China Sub Encounter – BBC News
A follow up on yesterday’s breaking of a Chinese submarine encounter with US aircraft carrier, from BBC News: The US navy has confirmed reports of a close encounter between one of its battle groups and a Chinese submarine in the Pacific late last month. US Pacific Commander Admiral William Fallon said the incident had had […]
Read MoreA Law That Says Man Can Have Only One ‘Best Friend’ – Jim Yardley
From New York Times: Wu Tianyu gave fair warning about the odor and then pushed open the heavy metal door to the ground-floor apartment. The smell rushed out, and so did the tiny dogs, tongues wagging, yipping, unaware of their central role in an issue gripping China’s capital city. The small apartment was the equivalent […]
Read MoreHu’s purge for both power and purity – John Ng
From the Asia Times: Foreign China-watchers tend to see Hu’s anti-corruption efforts in a political light as part of an ongoing power struggle against the legacy of former president Jiang Zemin and his Shanghai Gang, of which the fallen Chen was a member. On the other hand, ordinary people in China see Hu’s housecleaning simply […]
Read MoreIndia, China in territory spat ahead of Hu’s visit¬†- Reuters
From Reuters: China reaffirmed its claim over the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh bordering Tibet on Tuesday, sparking a diplomatic row between the Asian giants less than a week before Chinese President Hu Jintao visits New Delhi. Beijing does not recognise the remote and sparsely populated state of Arunachal Pradesh is part of India and […]
Read MoreThe president, his wife and Taiwan’s latest hero – Kathrin Hille
From Financial Times: The unlikely path to Taiwan’s most popular man leads past a dark gateway, through a narrow door and up a steep flight of stairs. Here, on the second floor of a grubby office building in an old part of Taipei works Eric Chen, the prosecutor who threw the presidency of Chen Shui-bian […]
Read MoreAnalysis: Dissenting DPP voices call for Chen to go – Ko Shu-ling
From Taipei Times: The controversy over President Chen Shui-bian’s (Èô≥Ê∞¥ÊâÅ) “state affairs fund” has sparked a heated debate over whether he would do the country a favor by stepping down. While the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has resolved to wait until the judicial inquiry into the matter is complete, several pro-independence heavyweights and DPP members […]
Read MoreChina’s new North Korea diplomacy – Jing-dong Yuan
From Asia Times Online: North Korea’s unexpected decision that it is prepared to return to the six-party talks caught many by surprise. Announced in Beijing after a hastily scheduled three-way meeting of China, North Korea and the United States, Pyongyang’s change of heart offers signs of hope for the resumption of the process to make […]
Read MoreIndividual Investors Flock to Booming China Shares – Reuters
From Reuters via the Washington Post: Sitting on worn plastic chairs in a downtown Shanghai brokerage hall, more than a hundred people in their 50s and 60s trade rumors, stare at electronic boards displaying prices, or just get on with their knitting. “I like to come here every day. I regard this as my new […]
Read MoreChina Central Bank Sees 2006 GDP Growth Over 10 Percent
From AFX via Forbes: China’s central bank said it expects the nation’s economic growth to exceed 10 pct this year with the consumer price index rising about 1.5 pct. The People’s Bank of China made the forecasts in its third quarter monetary report published on its website. ‘The growth of the economy will be maintained […]
Read MoreIn a Scandal, Shareholders, Not Citizens, Are the First to Know – WSJ
Another perspective, and hint, about how journalists and China watchers may start looking at, or into, potential scandals or corruption cases, from deep inside the Wall Street Journal today: Investors have been kept in the loop, analysts say, because the companies – including toll-road operator Fuxi Investment Holding, manufacturer Shanghai Electric Group, property developer New […]
Read MoreWen Jiabao’s Troubled Macro Adjustment: Officialdom gains weight at the people’s expense – Liang Jing
Thanks to David Kelly for this translation: In the PRC, all who pay attention to the economic situation can see ever more clearly that Wen Jiabao’s macro adjustment has not achieved its anticipated effect. The speed of investment growth still shows no sign of dropping, while the proportion of expenditure by residents continues to fall. […]
Read MoreGiant Neighbors Russia, China See Fault Lines Start to Appear – WSJ
In the backdrop of an apparent cozying up of Russia-China relations, the idea of some near-bankruptcy Russian farms to rely on Chinese labor immigrants has stirred controversy. Today’s page one from the Wall Street Journal: When Vladimir Shiryaev bought Ayatskoye, a near-bankrupt farm in the Urals, in 2000, he wondered how he would ever get […]
Read MoreClothes Made Abroad Create Factory Jobs in L.A. for Mr. Fix-it – WSJ
Want a story about how Chinese cheap labor can contribute to job creation in the US? Read on, yesterday’s page one from the Wall Street Journal, about how dirty-cheap apparel industry overseas, including in China, is shipping a lot of defective or counterfeit goods here that need to be fixed to enter US borders or […]
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