From Council on Foreign Relations website: The Chinese economic boom could change the global order and lift Beijing above Washington in economic might and influence. The United States is worried about China’s tactic of undervaluing its currency to boost exports, but Beijing has resisted repeated calls to raise the yuan’s value. The result has been […]
Read MoreEditor and Publisher, and the Wikipedia site itself, report that the English version of Wikipedia is now accessible in China after being blocked for over a year. CDT has also gotten reports from Internet users in Beijing that...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded its 6th plenary session here Wednesday and issued a communique highlighting the issue of social harmony. It also set the date and venue for the Party’s 17th national congress in the second half of 2007 in Beijing. The 4-day plenum, in […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: This is not the job Zhou Long had in mind. “When I was studying law in college, I never imagined that I would be selling pork after my graduation,” said Zhou, 24, who works for a supermarket in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Southwest […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: Sales in China for drugs to treat hypertension are expected to nearly double to more than $800 million by 2010 amid higher awareness of the disease and as more Chinese are exposed to risk factors such as obesity, a U.S. research firm said. The Chinese market for blood pressure treatment drugs, such […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: China on Tuesday expressed a rare willingness to support U.N. sanctions against its ally North Korea, but it said any punitive action would have to be narrowly targeted at the country’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. The United States and Japan continued to press the U.N. Security Council to support far […]
Read MoreFrom 163.com, translated by CDT: On Sep 27, 10 urban administration officers in Dongguan went to Shangjiangcheng village to kill stray dogs, and led to a local villagers’ riot. The administrators beat 7-8 dogs to death in 5 minutes. They put the dogs onto the trash in the truck. The blood dyed the ground, frightening […]
Read MoreIn the picture here, thousands of farmers in Yuxi‘s Hongta District in Yunnan Province became urban citizens after their land was seized for vanity projects. Landless now, these former farmers mostly live on up to 30,000 yuan of land compensation and a meager 10 yuan/month stipend. Most people cannot afford to see a doctor in […]
Read MoreChina-North Korea Border Bridge on The Yalu River. The name originates from a Manchu word meaning “the boundary between two fields”, by Red Heart.
Read MoreSeems that Chinese love crowds. Mainlanders just had another National Day holiday with floods of people traveling across the country, now there is a second protest in Taiwan calling for the resignation of Chen Shui-bian. From BBC News: Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have been surrounding the presidential office in Taiwan, calling on President Chen […]
Read MoreA translated full text of the Beijing Times’ story on how water melon farmers near Beijing made big money quick and easy by setting up shop over the Internet. One family saw an income of 200,000 yuan in two months, thanks to the newly-learned e-commerce: “It was not easy!¬† A few years years ago, in […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Yahoo! goes further than any of its rivals in blocking information on Tibet, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Falun Gong spiritual movement. Ma says it is as much of a philosophical choice as a...
Read MoreFrom the Independent: Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week. This ominous development comes as fears grow for the safety of a group of Tibetan children, […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: North Korea’s reported nuclear test and the ensuing diplomatic fallout come as China calibrates its role as a rising global power. How a newly emboldened China decides to handle its erratic ally – after what has widely been seen as a slap in the face for Beijing’s negotiating track – […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: As blogging fever takes over China, the resultant web pages reveal a whole new side of life on the mainland, writes Dinah Gardner Chinese men are good in bed. In fact, they’re better at foreplay than the world’s supposed sorcerers of seduction, the French male.Or at least so says Zhang Jiehai, a […]
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