From The Wall Street Journal: International Business Machines Corp. is moving the headquarters of one of its biggest divisions to China. IBM is to announce today that it will relocate the head office of its global procurement arm to the southern city of Shenzhen from Somers, N.Y. The division maintains relationships between suppliers and IBM’s […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: As noted in Internal Reference Materials in China, the Chinese government officials rely strongly on Xinhua to inform them. But it is not the Xinhua reports that the masses read. Instead, there are various internal Xinhua reports known as Internal Reference Materials (ÂÜÖÈÉ®ÂèÇËÄÉ˵ÑÊñô) that are circulated within officialdom. Internal reference materials are […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China’s top communists underlined the growing authority of President Hu Jintao On Wednesday by calling on party cadres to focus more on his doctrine of “building a harmonious ¬≠society”. A communiqu√© issued at the close of an annual meeting of the 350-member central committee made no mention of the toppling of […]
Read MoreA mountain climber who witnessed the shooting by Chinese troops of Tibetan refugees trying to cross the border into Nepal has posted photos of the incident online. See also “British climber describes fatal attack on Tibetans” from Reuters, and more recent news on the topic. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has given a statement on the […]
Read MoreThe China Review recently published a review by University of Wisconsin professor Edward Friedman of “China’s Peaceful Rise: Speeches of Zheng Bijian 1997-2005.” Thanks to The China Review for giving us permission to repost the review in full here (Download PDF file).
Read MoreAn update in the case of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, from Reuters: China has arrested outspoken human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng on charges of inciting subversion, his lawyer said on Thursday, following two months of uncertainty over the activist’s detention and fate. Gao was arrested on September 21 “on suspicion of inciting subversion of state […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China’s Communist Party, devoted in recent years to expanding the economy at any cost, on Wednesday endorsed a new doctrine that puts more emphasis on tackling the severe side effects of unrestrained growth. The annual meeting of the ruling party’s Central Committee formally adopted President Hu Jintao’s proposal to “build […]
Read MoreChen Guangcheng discussing with the villagers about the forced abortion in Shandong.
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: The Chinese see their country matching the US in terms of global influence within the next 10 years, while a majority of Americans, Chinese and Indians see the US losing its status as the world’s unrivalled superpower within the next half century, according to an international poll released on Wednesday. The study […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: On Aug. 20, the Yinan County People’s Court in Shandong province (±±‰∏úÁúÅÊ≤ÇÂçóÂéø‰∫∫Ê∞ëÊ≥ïÈô¢Ôºâentenced my husband, Chen GuangchengÔºàÈôàÂÖâËØöÔºâ, to four years and three months in prison on charges of “intentionally destroying property” ÔºàËìÑÊÑèÁ†¥ÂùèË¥¢‰∫ßÔºâand “assembling a crowd to disturb traffic.”ÔºàËÅö‰ºóÊâ∞‰π±‰∫§ÈÄöÔºâ Local officials punished my husband because he provided advice about the law and human […]
Read MoreChina National Bureau of Statistics released a full list of top 100 counties. As CDT reported before, among 2005 top 100 counties, 52 were from Zhejiang and Shandong province. And among the top 11, seven were from Jiangsu province. Click HERE to read the full list. Click HERE to read more ranks based on different […]
Read MoreFrom PBS’ FrontlineWorld: When filmmaker Brent E. Huffman took a six-month assignment in remotest western China, he knew it would be no ordinary adventure. There with his Chinese-born producer wife, Xiaoli, to film endangered wildlife and minority cultures, Huffman kept a diary and captured images of the beauty of China’s last untouched wilderness as well […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua News Agency: A baby-faced chubby Shanghai student called Xiao Pang(Â∞èËÉñ), or “cherub” in English, is gaining online fame as his satiric images proliferate across the Web. Netizens at home and abroad have digitally morphed a photograph of the 100 kilogram boy’s face into images of Harry Potter, Mona Lisa and […]
Read MoreFrom Picture China: The official party line is that 70% of what Mao Zedong did was right and 30% was wrong. This pretty much sums up the ambiguity with which most modern Chinese see their often criticized former leader. His detractors condemn him as a mass-murderer who was responsible for the deaths of millions of […]
Read MoreThe Chinese Communist Party ended its sixth plenary session meeting on Wednesday in Beijing without mentioning Chen Liangyu and the Shanghai pension fund scandal that brought him down. This is surprising as before the meeting, it was widely expected that Hu Jintao would announce the sentence on Chen. The meeting also shied away from announcing […]
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