From The Times of India: Chinese president Hu Jintao will press for a direct road link between India and China during his talks with leaders in New Delhi on November 21. China wants the old Stillwell road connecting Arunachal Pradesh with Yunnan province in western China through Myanmar, rebuilt and reopened in order to give […]
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Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and was undetected until it surfaced within firing range, The Washington Times reported on Monday. A Navy spokeswoman in Washington had no comment on the report. [Full Text] – U.S. Pacific Fleet […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Chinese writer Tie Ning (ÈìÅÂáù) was appointed chairman yesterday of the China Writer’s Association (CWA), an official organization that nominally represents the interests of professional writers but which some have said serves as a tool of ideological control. Following in the footsteps of writers Mao Dun and Ba Jin, Tie Ning […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (by the way, BMW also stands for “be my wife”): A matchmaking party aimed at pairing up millionaire men with beautiful women will be held on a ship on Shanghai’s Huangpu River on November 25. All of the male participants must have assets worth at least 2 million yuan (US$250,000), and all […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: The moves by Lee Wen-chung and Lin Cho-shui are the first major divisions in the Democratic Progressive Party, which has so far backed Mr Chen. “Our party has had a glorious history, but it has also made errors,” they said. “We’re using this small action to express our apology to the public.” […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: …”If I had the right to elect the deputies to the National People’s Congress,” says Bokee blogger Ren Binju fresh back from the polls, I sure wouldn’t have chosen any of them: If I had the right to elect the deputies to the National People’s Congress, I’d definitely choose more people […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Washington Post U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez began a trip to Beijing on Monday to help American entrepreneurs clinch deals and to discuss barriers that have contributed to a soaring and politically touchy Chinese trade surplus. Highlighting his efforts to increase U.S. exports, Gutierrez watched Motorola Inc. sign a contract to supply […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: A Citigroup-led consortium is expected this week to be officially declared the preferred bidder for Guangdong Development Bank, a struggling lender in southern China and the target of a prolonged bidding war. People familiar with the situation said that, barring late developments, GDB would make the announcement on Thursday. This will end […]
Read MoreFrom The Straits Times (Singapore): Much has been made of China’s quiet diplomacy, which helped bring a recalcitrant and now nuclear North Korea back to the negotiating table. Beijing’s successful leverage over Pyongyang suggests that China’s strong adherence to the principle of non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations is loosening. If so, this […]
Read MoreFrom Le Monde diplomatique: Perhaps the most important, yet least-mentioned aspect, of last month’s nuclear test conducted by North Korea, was the country’s careful calculation that the United States, China and Russia would not take major action, no matter how much they deplored the test. The United States has never used nuclear weapons against Russia […]
Read MoreFrom the Southern Weekend, translated by ESWN: A punch landed straight on the temple of Wang Zhihong. The cap on the head of this traffic police officer flew more than a meter away. “I was dazed by the blow,” he said. “Who would have thought that government workers would hit police officers!” Prior to this, […]
Read MoreFu Jianfeng (ÂÇÖÂâëÈîã) is a reporter from the Southern Weekend. The following post is from Fu Jianfeng’s blog, translated by ESWN: When a scholar once discussed with me, he said that it was impractical to speak of the having journalist professionalism in the current environment for journalism in China. I countered by saying that it […]
Read MoreFrom Andrew Lih’s blog: Here in the PRC, it has been four days since the block of Chinese Wikipedia (ZH) was fully lifted. All reports indicate it is indeed accessible from everywhere in the country – an improvement on the initial partial lifting of the block on 10/10. So I wondered – was there any […]
Read MoreThis week’s CDT ChinaCast Foreign Correspondents Series features Cindy Sui, a reporter for the Bejing bureau of Agence France-Press who recently left her job to move to Taiwan with her husband (also a reporter). Before she...
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