From Chinaelections.org: The nucelar test by North Korea has triggered strong reactions in China, both by the government and the Chinese people. The following is a quick summary of the official response in Beijing and the unofficial responses in the ever expanding cyberspace.
Read MoreThe Financial Times reports on the latest “rich list” in China, which for the first time is this year topped by a woman: A female paper recycling entrepreneur worth an estimated $3.4bn has topped the latest list of mainland China’s richest people, marking the first time a woman has been ranked as the wealthiest person. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: Chinese President Hu Jintao has named his chief political rival to lay the groundwork for next year’s crucial Communist Party Congress in another sign of his growing confidence, sources with ties to the leadership said. Vice President Zeng Qinghong, fifth in the Communist Party hierarchy but wielding considerably more […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China appears to be softening its stance on new rules banning foreign news agencies from dealing directly with local clients and imposing censorship on their products, according to Tom Glocer, chief executive of Reuters. Announced last month by sector regulator Xinhua news agency, the regulations drew grave concern from US and EU […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s population will reach the peak in the first half of the 21st century, said Zhao Baige, Vice Minister of the State Commission of Population and Family Planning on Monday. ……Zhao said 800,000 to 1.2 million babies are born every year with birth defects. The population of handicapped people has topped 60 million, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Mongolia has moved to register the name of its legendary conqueror Genghis Khan as a commercial brand. The parliament in Ulan Bator is debating a law that would allow the Mongolian government to license the use of his name and image. However, Mongolians are sensitive about his appropriation by foreign companies. “Foreigners […]
Read MoreFrom the AP: The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday said China was exporting performance enhancing drugs and said it had a special responsibility as the host of the next Olympiad to step up its anti-doping controls. WADA chairman Dick Pound said China was among “many countries” that have been identified as sources […]
Read MoreA profile of a typical, veteran-migrant worker family out of many million across the country from BBC News: Millions of people are leaving rural China and heading to the cities in search of work and prosperity. New towns are springing up and growing quickly, turning quiet seaside villages like Shenzhen into vibrant industrial centres. Liu […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Millions of pints of blood are pumped through underground pipelines from a big developing country to wealthy consumers in the United States and elsewhere. The blood trade has produced the most spectacular boom in human history. In just five years, the formerly dirt-poor state at the heart of the haemo-business has become […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, democracy activist Wei Jingsheng writes: Those who are concerned about the Chinese democracy movement should pay close attention to ongoing events in Taiwan, especially the popular anticorruption campaign that has emerged there in recent weeks. The very existence of Taiwan’s political and economic openness offers a sharp challenge to China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Letters from China: Dominoes left to right: Chen Liangyu, Huang Ju, Jiang Zemin Search “ȪÑËèä” (Huang Ju) with Baidu or Google.cn and you will probably see either an error message or a blank page. It appears that Chinese search engines are ordered to ban “Huang Ju” again. “Huang Ju” had been banned earlier this […]
Read MoreFrom Coffee blog: This mother, who lives in Chongming county of Kunming city, lost her son, Zhao Zhanying, 20 years ago during the Sino-Vietnamese War. Twenty years later, she saw her son’s tomb for the first time at Yunnan Martyr’s cemetery with the help of her son’s comrade in the army. She didn’t have the […]
Read MoreWen Jiabao (L) with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 8, by Natalie Behring.
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: China’s punctilious Foreign Ministry reserves the word “hanran,” which translates as brazen or flagrant, for serious affronts to China’s national dignity by countries that have historically been rivals or enemies. When Japan’s recently retired prime minister visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which China’s condemns as honoring Japan’s World War II-era militarism, […]
Read MoreReuters reports on the fifth generation of Chinese Communist Party leadership, who will likely take over power in the near future: More open, better educated and less ideological ” China’s next crop of national leaders could change the face of the country. While barely known in the outside world, Li Keqiang, Xi Jinping, Zhao Leji […]
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